Princeton University, Princeton MS. 16.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2231

Shelfmark:

Princeton MS. 16.

Title:

Libro de capitoli della compagnia della fraternita di santo bernardo la quale si raguna alla badia a septimo ... etc.

Place:

Morimondo, Italy

Morimondo TGN

Date:

between 900 and 1600

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 198 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 202 x 135-140 (115-155 x 36-80) mm bound to 213 x 150 mm.

Note:

Incipit: Libro de capitoli “Il honore sia di dio omnipotente, padre figliuolo et spirito sancto et della gloriosa uergine madre maria, et de sancti apostoli piero et paulo et del diuoto et mellifluo doctore messere sancto bernardo di nostra compagnia advocato et padre, et generalmente di tutta la celestiale corte del paradiso." -- Prologus “Non ita est ordo apud grecos qui integre sapiunt...
Explicit: Libro de capitoli “…faue sedici bianche infra tutto il numero ero delli cento du ...” -- Prologus Prologus -- Epistola sancti Jude apostoli “…omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit epistola sancti Jude apostoli.” -- Psalms “…enim in corde suo oblitus est deus auertit faciem suam ne uideat in finem.”
Ms. composite codex.
Title from incipit of first work (fol. 3r).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 197 + i (paper) ; some quire marks ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 15-43 lines per page in 1, 2, or 3 columns.
Description: Damage to upper corner resulting in loss of text on fol. 26-35
Decoration: 1-, 2-, and 3-line blue or red initials in the Libro de capitoli (fol. 3r-23v). The Catholic Epistles (fols. 27v-100v) are decorated with anthropomorphic and zoömorphic initials at the beginning of each epistle. 1-, 2-, and 4-line red initials in the incomplete Psalter (fol. 101r-199v).
Origin: Produced at least in part at the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria di Monimondo.
Owned by the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria di Morimondo. Acquired by the bookseller Ulrico Hoepli. Purchased by the Princeton University Library in 1893 (Acc. no. 88330).

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Headbands

figure initials

Anthropomorphic letters

Parchment (Paper)

Christianity

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

New Jersey--Princeton

Cistercians

Italy--Morimondo

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99114388523506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/844aca8b-ee00-4614-96ee-4e1698407dd0/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University