(Q52929)
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Manuscrits médiévaux--Californie--Berkeley
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Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes--Californie--Berkeley
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Histoire universelle--Ouvrages avant 1800
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Manuscripts, Medieval--California--Berkeley
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--California--Berkeley
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13-- or 14--
14. century
15. century
1300Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 103 leaves : paper ; 296 x 213 (164-230 x 110-170) mm bound to 302 x 219 mm
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Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 729:5) & positive (BANC MS UCB 85 FILM)
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Extent: 23 leaves : paper ; 296 x 213 (164-230 x 110-170) mm
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Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 1704) & positive (BANC MS UCB 145 FILM)
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negative (BOX 1704) & positive (BANC MS UCB 145 FILM)
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negative (BOX 729:5) & positive (BANC MS UCB 85 FILM)
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Ms. composite codex.
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Title from modern inscription on front pastedown.
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Collation: Paper (among identified watermarks: Briquet's "Fleur de lys," 7111; "Coutelas," 5128-5134; "Croix grecques," 5439; "Monts," 11667-11677; "Huchet, " 7645; "Basilic," 2628-2682; "Cercle," 3194; "Arbalète," 762-763), fol. i + 103 (traces of foliation on recto in top right corner, or, occasionally, on the verso, top left corner); 112 (with 7 loose leaves and 2 bifolia inserted) 212...
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Layout: Primarily in long lines, although fol. 1r-7r and 17r-21r are in 2 columns; 37-50 lines per page; 1st quire ruled in red.
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Script: Written mainly in gothic script, although humanistic book script is also present. 5 hands identified. Scribe 1, fol. 1r-7ra, 17ra-21ra; scribe 2, fol. 8r-15r; scribe 3, fol. 22r-72v, 74r-82r, 88r-103v; scribe 4, fol. 73r-v; scribe 5, fol. 82v-84v.
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Decoration: Spaces reserved for initials; numerous manicules (often with extremely elongated and twisted fingers) and other marginal finding aids, sometimes in the shape of animals (e.g., an octopus, fol. 1v, and a snake, fol. 18v).
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Binding: Modern paper over limp pasteboards; 2 raised bands laced in.
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Origin: Likely written in northern Italy, perhaps the Veneto region, judging from the watermarks, as well as from the presence of certain characteristic linguistic tendencies in the text and in Italian marginal notes.
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Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 85.
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Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS AC13 C5.
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Includes Paradoxa and Somnium Scipionis, by Cicero; De maganimitate, by Seneca; Epistola Domini, by Petrarch; Epistola Magistri Petri de Parma; Preambulum, sive, Introductio libri Lucani editum per Magistri Petrum de Parma; Prohemium ad Boetii de consolatione; Liber de mirabilibus Romae; and other unidentified texts. UCB 145 was originally part of this ms.; includes Prohemium Valerii Maximi...
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20 September 2024
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20 September 2024
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