MS. Lat. th. e. 49
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no full description available
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: x + 129
Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (ruled): 135 × 85 mm.
Layout
31-3 lines, in 1 column
Decoration
Plain red initials.
Binding
Sewn on three cords and bound in brown leather over pasteboard; the covers with blind-tooled fillets; the spine with a speckled paper title piece inscribed 'Thom. Cist. (?) | in Cantic.'.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The Cistercian monastery of Morimondo, Pavia
The added tabula has the inscription, 'Tabula anno domini MCCCX composita a dono [sic] Beltramo de Reoldis monacho et thessaurio Morimundi Mediolanensis ...' (this monk also copied California, Berkeley, MS. 49, at Morimondo in 1288)
Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) (?)
Christie's 26 Nov. 1976, lot 381.
Record Sources
Draft description by Peter Kidd, late 1990s