Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Title devised by cataloger. Secundo folio: fol. 2 blank; fol. 4 (second folio of text): UNIVERSIS AC/singulis... Collation: Parchment, i (wove paper flyleaf) + 60 + i (wove paper flyleaf) ; 14+1 (fol. 5 singleton) 2-510 68−3 (fol. 56-58 are singletons; their conjugates, i.e. the final three leaves, are cancelled) ; catchwords on lower center margin, final verso of each quire. 18th-century brown ink arabic foliation, upper right corner each recto, begins with 1 on fol. 3 and so reaches 58; modern arabic... Layout: 1 column, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand by the scribe Gregorius de Crema, in black ink with red rubrics. Binding: 19th-century red morocco over pasteboard, gilt and blind-rolled covers, gilt filigree board edges, spine gilt and stamped: "Bullae/ S. Bened./ A. D./ 1437"; marbled paper pastedowns and conjugate endleaves, formerly housed in marbled cardboard slipcase with round manuscript label "165" (the lot number when sold at Sotheby's in 1961). Origin: Written in the mid-fifteenth century in Bobbio at the abbey of St. Columbanus by the scribe Gregorius of Crema, who also wrote Florence, Bib. Laurenziana XXIX 1. Provenance: Thomas Rodd, cat. p. 49, nr. 2 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 64790); purchased from Rodd by Sir Thomas Phillipps (his no. 10864, pencilled on flyleaf and on printed paper spine label) (SDBM 202784); Sotheby's London 11 April 1961, lot 165 (SDBM 3802); Maggs, cat. 866 (Dec. 1959), nr. 57 (SDBM 37413). Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from Maggs in 1964 (cat. 880, no. 57). Call number: MS q Med.201. Bibliography: The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Thomae Phillipps, Bt. (repr. London, 1968), 179, nr. 10864.
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