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MS. Lat. th. d. 43

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

Contents

1.
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones per annum,

for the first half of the Church year

Language(s): Latin
2.
Ps.-Bernard, De contemplatione
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
i (paper) + 146 + i (paper) + ii (two small slips of paper, glued to the lower pastedown)
Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (ruled): 200 × 125 mm.
Foliation: Modern pencil, i, 1–149

Layout

31 lines, in 1 columns

Hand(s)

Good rounded gothic hand

Decoration

Red and green initials with penwork.

Binding

Sewn on four bands, and bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboards; the covers with simple blind-tooled fillets; the spine inscribed in ink which has corroded the leather 'S. Bernard. | Sermon[ ] | Lib. de Con[t.]'; and with the remains of two paper labels (cf. MS. lat. th. ....)

History

Origin: 12th century, late – 13th century, early ; Italian, Morimondo (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Cistercian monastery of Morimondo, Pavia, on the evidence of the binding

Paolo Giovio (?) (1483–1552)

Bought at Christie's 17 Nov. 1976, lot 371.

Record Sources

Preliminary description by Peter Kidd, late 1990s

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.