Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552 [Browse]
• Brooke, Thomas, Sir, 1830-1908 [Browse]
• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]
• Abbazia di Morimondo [Browse]

Bookseller

Hoepli, Ulrico, 1847-1935 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University Library Manuscript. Kane 1. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]
• decorated initials [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

The Gospel of St. Mark with Glossa ordinaria.

Notes

• Incipit: "... [baptis]mo domini predicare deum incipiens..." (preface) -- Incipit Evangelium secundum Marchum; [incipit] Initium evangeli Ihesu Christi filii dei sicut scriptum est ..."
• Explicit: "... et sermonem confirmante sequentibus signis."
• Ms. codex.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 73 + i (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 16 lines per page of central text ; columns for glosses on either side of main text ; ruled.
• Decoration: Text opens with 11-line initial in yellow, blue, red, and a small patch of green. Later red 1-line initials mark beginnings of chapters 1-7.
• Origin: Written in Morimondo, Italy in the first half of the 12th century.

Binding note

Later binding. Blind-tooled brown calf over pasteboards. Parchment spine label Y.

Language note

Latin;

Script

Carolingian miniscule.

Provenance

Owned by the Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria in Morimondo in the Middle Ages. Their manuscripts acquired by Paolo Giovio. Later acquired by Ulrico Hoepli for resale. Owned by Sir Thomas Brooke. Grenville Kane acquired the manuscript in 1924.

Source acquisition

Acquired Estate of Grenville Kane; 1946.

Publications about

Leclercq, J. "Textes et manuscrits cisterciens dans des bibliothèques des États-Unis," Traditio 17 (1961): p. 180, n. 54.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 3-4.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Italy Morimondo.

Other title(s)

Glossa ordinaria.

OCLC

177489100

Other standard number

Kane MS. 1

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