ff. i + 60 + i - 10 gatherings of 6 leaves - Goatskin, 16th century; sides panelled with quintuple rules, border of repeated lozenge tools with quatrefoil, central panel filled with diaper of fleur-de-lys. - Grante (s. XIX?)?; Richard Heber; his sale, Evans (10 February 1836, lot 1047); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his n. 8248; acquired by the Bancroft Library UC Berkeley from Kraus (cat. 196, lot 102, 1994). - Kerkhof, Maxim P.A.M. "El manuscrito UCB 161 de la Bancroft Library(Universidad de Berkeley, California: Un nuevo códice del Laberinto de Fortunade Juan de Mena." Neophilologus80 (1996): 243-57
Details
Title
BANC MS UCB 161
Published
France
Full Collection Name
Digital Scriptorium
Type
Image
Language
Spanish
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Century: 16th
Contents
Part 1: ff. 1r-60v
Description: - Paper - Crowned serpent, cfr. Briquet 13745 (1507); letter "D," cfr. Id. 8130 (1493); unidentified letter, cfr. Id. 9753 (1507) - 172 x 100 mm - 3 eight-line stanzas; frame for each stanza ruled in red.
Country: France
Cardinal point: southern
Region: Franche Comté (?)
Assigned Date: s. XVIin
Dated by scribe: Yes
Inscribed Date: 1515
Document: No
Number of Scribes: 3
Script: Humanistic.
Other Decoration: Headings in red square capitals; first initial of each line washed in yellow.
Text 1: ff. 2r-16v and 25v-49v
Author: Juan de Mena
Title: Laberinto de fortuna, o las trescientas
Language(s): Spanish
Incipit: [E]L muy prepotente don Iohan el segundo
Explicit: Fauor est el mundo de mi magestad
Notes: Four lines of verse in Spanish (stanza 1a-d), f. 1r; f. 1v blank; only stanzas 1-88 and 155-300 present; space reserved for missing stanzas, ff. 17r-25r. Text based on ed. of Seville 1499 (Kerkhof, 252)
Image 1: Front pastedown Ownership note, s. XIX (?).
Image 2: f. 1
Image 3: f. 2 Space reserved for rubric and initial.
Image 4: f. 36v Vertical catchword top to bottom.
Image 5: ff. 46v-47 Decorated top-line ascenders.
Image 6: f. 49v Scribal colophon, "1515" and "Telos, to theo chares" (=Finis, deo gratias) in Greek twice.
Image 7: ff. 50v-51 Ruling pattern in pale red ink for strophes.
Image 8: Binding Front cover.
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