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Works (Ms. UCB 157)
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Manuscrits médiévaux--Californie--Berkeley
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Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes--Californie--Berkeley
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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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1450-1499
15. century
1450Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 130 leaves : paper ; 219 x 124 (145 x 75) mm. bound to 224 x 123 mm.
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Presented by L.J. Mackintosh to Thomas Bromfield Ferrers, May 15, 1824; subsequently acquired by the Bancroft Library. Front pastedown: bookplate (with arms) of T.B. Ferrers; above, bookplate of the Bancroft Library. Front free endpaper, verso, 20-line dedicatory poem from L.J. Mackintosh, Guilford Street, to Thomas Bromfield Ferrers, dated 15 May 1824, beginning: "It boots not that I tell...
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Ms. codex.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Collation: Paper, fol. i + i (parchment = original flyleaf) + 130 + ii; 1-1310; catchwords written vertically; watermarks: fol. 129, simple cross on top of an initial; fol. 128, two arrows, crossed, similar to Bricquet 6278, and 6280-6281.
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Layout: Fol. 1-80: 25 lines, unruled. Fol. 81-127, 23 lines, unruled. Spaces left for initials which are unexecuted.
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Script: 2 scribes: fol. 1-80 in slightly clubbed humanistic bookhand; fol. 81-127 in cursive sloping humanistic bookhand.
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Origin: Produced in northeastern Italy in the second half of the 15th century.
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Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 157.
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Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PA6393.A4 1450z.
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1. fol. 3r-65v, Odes: "[M]aecenas atavis aedite [sic] regibus / O et praesidium et dulce decus meum / sunt quos curricula pulverem Olympicum ... Lidiis remisto carmine tybiis / Troyamque et Anchisen et almae / Progeniem veneris canemus."
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2. fol. 65v-78v, Epodes: "[I]bis Liburnis inter alta navium / Amice propugnacula / Paratus omne Caesaris periculum ... Desideriique temperare poculum / Plorem artis in te nil agentis exitus."
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3. fol. 78v-80r, Carmen saeculare: "[Ph]oebe silvarumque potens Diana / Lucidum caeli decus o colendi / Semper et culti date quae precamur ... Spem bonam certamque domum reporto / Doctus et Phoebi chorus et Dianae / Dicere laudes. Telos."
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4. fol. 82r-127r, Satires: "[Q]ui fit Mecenas ut nemo quam sibi sorte / seu non dederit seu fors obiecerit illa ... Ut nihilo omnino gustaremus velut illis / Canidia affl[o?]ret peior serpentibus a[-?]ris. Telōs [sic]."
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20 September 2024
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20 September 2024
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