MS. Lat. th. e. 49
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no full description available
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
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
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 579 (fols. 1-9)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.