MS. Lat. hist. c. 1

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Rubric: Pantheon Gotifredi Viterbiensis … anno domini ab incarnatione MCLXXXVIII

part pr. G. Waitz, M.G.H., Script. XXII, pp.107–307. The date, dedication to pope Gregory VIII and contents (cf. ibid. p.10) indicate that this MS. belongs to Waitz's recension D.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: (tab.)dixit deus

Secundo Folio: (text)-tum. Omnium

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 178 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 230 mm.

Dimensions (written): 220 × 165–70 mm.

Foliation: modern pencil: i-ii, 1–178. Remains of later medieval foliation 1–95 in ink

Collation

1(10) (wants 10), 2(10)(1 cut out), 3(10)–5(10), 6(10)(wants 2 and 3), 7(10), 8(10)(+ 1 added at the beginning), 9(10)–12(10), 13(10) (wants 2–9), 14(10)–17(10), 18(10)(wants 2–9), 19(8), 20(8)(8 canc.), catchwords

Layout

2 cols., 45 lines. Writing below top line.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 174:

Good border (now largely cut out) on fol. 1r. Acanthus leaves, gold disks, bird. In the upper margin erased coat of arms.

Illuminated initials with floral designs, extending into margins, and gold discs (rubbed) on fols. 1r, 20v and 159v.

Plain red and blue initials.

Additions: On fol.176v is a note of seven lines written in two hands on the death of Ferdinand I, of Naples, 1494, and the reign of Alfonso II.

Binding

20th(?)-cent. plain parchment laced-case binding; the spine inscribed 'GOTIFREDUS | PANTHEON'

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; Italian, Naples (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Erased arms, fol. 1r

Obit of Ferdinand I, king of Naples, 1494, entered fol. 176v

Shelfmark 'Col. 14 Scaf[fale] 6'

'Agostino Nicosiensis', 18th century

J. P. Long

E. P. Goldschmidt, Cat. 13, no. 73, 1928. Bought.

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian library staff.

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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