Bernard of Clairvaux, Ps.-Bernard — 12th century, late - 13th century, early; Italian, Morimondo (?)
MS. Lat. th. d. 43
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Bernard of Clairvaux, Ps.-Bernard — 12th century, late - 13th century, early; Italian, Morimondo (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. th. d. 43
Place of origin
Italian, Morimondo (?)
Date
12th century, late - 13th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (paper) + 146 + i (paper) + ii (two small slips of paper, glued to the lower pastedown)
Hands
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. ....)
Provenance
Cistercian monastery of Morimondo, Pavia, on the evidence of the binding
Paolo Giovio (?) (1483–1552)
Bought at Christie's 17 Nov. 1976, lot 371.
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