[Mark with Glossa ordinaria].

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fols. 1r-2r: [incipit] ... [baptis]mo domini predicare deum incipiens...; [explicit] qui incrementum prestat deus est.
fols. 2r-73r: [rubric] Incipit Evangelium secundum Marchum; [incipit] Initium evangeli Ihesu Christi filii dei sicut scriptum est ...; [explicit] et sermonem confirmante sequentibus signis.

Description:

Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 73 + i (paper); 1⁸⁻¹ (first leaf lost), 2-9⁸, 10². Quires folded with the hair-side out and signed with letters a-k on the final leaf.
Layout: Ruled in hardpoint for three columns with the main text in the central column and glosses to either side. Red one-line initials and chapter numbers to indicate the beginning of chapters 1-7 added in the 13th century; later medieval arabic numerals used as running heads for chapters 1-9.
Script: Caroline minuscule with tironian notes for 'et' and 'est'. Both round and straight d, and final s round, straight, or superscript. The correcting hand uses punctus flexus and punctus elevatus.
Decoration: fol. 2r (Mark): Initial I, with pale yellow interlace at the top, a floriated leaf at the bottom, and geometric patterns in the center column. Colors include yellow, blue, red, and a small patch of green.
Origin: Written in Morimondo, Italy in the first half of the 12th century.

Binding note:

Blind-tooled brown calf over pasteboards. Sewn on three thick split thongs. Parchment spine label Y.

Provenance:

The manuscript belonged to the Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria in Morimondo in the Middle Ages and retains an ex-libris inscription on fol. 73v: "Liber sancte Marie de morimondo cisterciensis ordinis mediolanensis diocesis Numero cvi." An earlier number has been erased and overwritten. Its companion volume containing the book of John is now Harvard, Richardson 2 (see Light no. 33). Morimondo manuscripts were acquired by the historian Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) and were catalogued by Ferdinando Ughelli (1595-1670). This manuscript was part of the Morimondo library acquired by the Italian bookseller Ulrico Hoepli who sold them to libraries in England and America. The glossed Mark was purchased by Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908) of Armitage Bridge House, near Huddersfield and retains his bookplate on the inside front cover. Grenville Kane (1854-1943) of Tuxedo Park, NY; acquired the manuscript in 1924 and added his bookplate to the inside front cover.

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