Vita Christi .

Duchy of Cleve, between 1425 and 1450

Medieval Manuscripts

BANC MS UCB 82

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25 leaves

parchment, color illustrations

East Middle Dutch.

The Bancroft Library

Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 25; 1-2⁸ 3⁸( -2) 4⁴( -2).
Layout: 19 lines per page; traces of frame ruling in ink with vertical lines running entire length of page.
Script: Gothic in Franco-Flemish hand.
Decoration: 81 miniatures illustrating scenes from Genesis, life of Mary and life of Christ; some have been retouched. Two historiated initials: fol. 5r, Mary praying; fol. 24r, Christ on the cross. Floral border on 2r. Arms of the Duke of Cleve in 9-line initial on fol. 1r. Primary initials 7-9 lines in gold against red and blue ground or in blue with red flourishes. Small 1-line initials alternate in red and blue. Refrain "Ave Maria," names of days, and a few corrections (cf. 25v) in red.
Binding: Cut velvet over pasteboards; doublures in paper with wheel motif on brown ground. Binding now removed and stored with manuscript.
Origin: Produced in the Duchy of Cleve (now Germany), as indicated by the coat of arms on fol. 1r and by the dialect (East Middle Dutch), probably the second quarter of the 15th cent. The illustrations are confined to the margins and may be of a later (1460-1480?) date.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 82.
Fol. 1r-25v: "Die daer in den beginne ghescapen heeft hemel ende eerde ende dat meer ende alle dat daer in is om te verclaren die ontspeekelike goetheit synre goedernerenheit. Amen. [red] Ave Maria ... Als hi begrauen was o du gemynde moder ende iofferouwe du gyngeste alre bedroeste moder en wech mit groten suchten ende wenen bislu weder geleit inden armen des gemynden Johannes."

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