Item Summary

Prologues to the Old Testament book Isaiah (fol. 1r-2r) and the text of Isaiah with Glossa ordinaria.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Isaiah with Glossa ordinaria]
Call Number
Princeton MS. 2
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrf55zk968
Publisher
[Morimondo], [between 1150 and 1199]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1150-1199
Extent
193 leaves : parchment ; 298 x 198 (203 x 160) mm bound to 312 x 210 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Ulrico Hoepli with other books from the Morimondo library and sold to Princeton University in 1893.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 158-159.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: [Prologue] “[Y]sayas nobilius uir et urbane eloquentiae ...” -- [main text] “Uisio Ysaie filii amos quam uidit super Judah et iherusalem in diebus ...”
Explicit: [Prologue] : “... ut nostre hystoriae antiquiores appareant quam gentiles.” -- [main text] “... et erunt usque ad sacietatem uisionis omni carni.”
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal gloss arranged in columns on each side of the text. Label "Library of the College of New Jersey" (inside upper cover).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 193 ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 12 lines per page with interlinear gloss ; glosses in ca. 44 lines arranged in columns on each side of the text ; frame-ruled in black.
Decoration: 4-line initial "U" in red with infillings (fol. 3r). 1- or 2- line initials in red for major divisions. Elaborate calligraphic paraph marks signal the beginnings of glosses
Origin: From the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria di Morimondo, Italy, in the second half of the 12th century.
Binding Note
Later binding. Italy, 17th century? Brown half-calf and pastepaper over pasteboard. Endbands. Head and fore-edge painted in a blue and red pattern.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible Isaiah—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy—Morimondo
Headbands
decorated initials
Decorated edges

Physical Characteristics

File Count
397

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/94bd2617-eedf-4833-b6d1-9e02b2f61514/manifest