Part 1: ff. 1-144v

Description: - Parchment - 240 x 160 mm - 22-23 long lines ruled in lead.

Country: Italy

Cardinal point: northern

Region: Lombardy

Assigned Date: s. XIIex

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: Several; scribe 1, ff. 1-144v; additions written in several hands.

Script: Transitional script.

Figurative Decoration: 7 contemporary pen and ink drawings sometimes touched in red added in the margins.

Other Decoration: Opening 3- to 11-line initials in red, decorated in void, some with pen-flourishing in black; 1-line initials within text in red or red and green; corrections to the text, marginalia, and commentary often enclosed in a decorated frame.

Notes: 3 tipped-in partial leaves with chapter lists for text written in gothic script.




Text 1: f. 144v

Author: Hugh of St. Victor (Hugo de Sancto Victore)

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: Rex Salomon fecit templum quorum [sic instar et exemplum. Christus et Ecclesia.

Notes: Notes on Adam and his descendants, on the 4 rivers of Paradise and on the 4 virtues, back flyleaf recto; list of the first 50 abbots of S. Maria di Acquafredda in four successive hands, back flyleaf verso. 

Image 1: f. 145 List of abbots.

Image 2: Back pastedown Ownership note.




Text 2: ff. 1-144r

Author: Isidore (Isidorus Hispalensis)

Title: Commentary on Genesis and 1-2 Kings

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Prayer against hail added by contemporary hand to first flyleaf. 

Image 3: f. 1a Inserted partial leaf.

Image 4: f. 1 Painted initial.

Image 5: f. 22v Calf-like grotesque (in text, "vitulum saginatum"); medieval foliation repeated on recto and verso

Image 6: f. 24v Last leaf verso of quire with quire number "iiii" and catchword "dei."

Image 7: f. 62 Text cramped into small space.

Image 8: f. 62v Text expanded to fill large space.

Image 9: f. 64v Points made in text, 5-10, counted out in margin; geometric design; catchword.

Image 10: ff. 68v-69 Ruling in lead across gutter but only partially into outer margin.

Image 11: f. 76 Addition in margin of text omitted due to eyeskip.

Image 12: f. 87 Painted initial.

Image 13: f. 97 Varying forms of initial "T" on ff. 97-99.

Image 14: f. 97v Varying forms of initial "T" on ff. 97-99.

Image 15: f. 98 Varying forms of initial "T" on ff. 97-99.

Image 16: f. 98v Varying forms of initial "T" on ff. 97-99.

Image 17: f. 99 Varying forms of initial "T" on ff. 97-99.

Image 18: f. 123v Flourished initial.

Image 19: f. 125 Last item of chapter list stowed on previous line.

Image 20: f. 144 Grotesque.

Image 21: Binding Front cover.

Image 22: Spine