(Q52947)
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Gradual (Ms. UCB 158)
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Manuscripts--Spain--16th century
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Illuminated manuscripts--Spain--16th century
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Contemporary bindings (Binding)--Spain--16th century
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--California--Berkeley
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--California--Berkeley
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15--
16. century
1500Gregorian
1500Gregorian
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Extent: 159 leaves : parchment, col. ill., music ; 515 x 380 (310 x 270) mm. bound to 535 x 385 mm.
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Ms. codex.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Collation: Parchment; fol. i-iv (paper) + 1-157 + 158 (paper) + 159 (foliation in early modern arabic numerals does not correspond to contemporary roman-numeral foliation in red ink); collation beginning at fol. 1: 18 (+1, fol. 1) 2-58 68 (-5 and 8, formerly fol. 45, 48) 78 (-8, formerly fol. 56) 88 98 (-5 through 8, formerly fol. 69-72) 108 (-1 through 4, formerly fol. 73-76) 118 (-4 and 5...
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Layout: 6 lines of text and music.
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Script: Written mainly in one heavily gothicizing hand but with several humanistic hands present; later hands range from rough noting scripts to simple round roman miniscules based on printing fonts.
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Decoration: Opening initial, fol. 1 (leaf intruded from another ms.): 90 x 85 mm.; archaically styled initial based on French models of mid-15th cent. in white patterned red and blue, flanked by tall, green "dragon" infilled with tendrils of colored flowers and tri-lobed leaves, the whole placed on a cusped burnished gold ground with a floral border in similar style the length of text; opening...
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Music: Square notation in red 5-line staves; 6 lines of text and music per page.
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Binding: 16th cent. leather over heavy wooden boards; original leather appears tooled or stamped with some ruling and some curling rolls in lozenge pattern; cover repaired repeatedly by nailing strips of leather of spine; evidence of one fore-edge clasp closing on front cover.
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Origin: Written during 16th cent., possibly in Spain; probably for use in a Franciscan convent, given the mass of Francis (fol. 42-43), and certainly in Franciscan use by the time later notes and leaves were added.
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Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 158.
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Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS M2150 1500z.
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20 September 2024
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20 September 2024
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