University of Missouri, RARE RES PA6624.A4 1150

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10291

Shelfmark:

RARE RES PA6624.A4 1150

Title:

Institutiones grammaticae
On Diphthongs

Author:

Priscian

Priscian WIKIDATA

Scribe:

"B"

Place:

Austria

Austria TGN

Date:

s. XII(3/4); 1150-1175

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound, s. XV#^ex# or XVI in German pigskin, blind stamped; binding lacks the metal bosses at corners and in center that would be typical of Lambach, nor are the stamps in K. Holter, Gutenberg Jahrbuch(1954) 280-289.
Other decoration, ff. 1-119v: Rubrics, initials, words slashed through, all in red.
Number of scribes, ff. 1-119v: Several.
Script, ff. 1-119v: Late caroline minuscule.
Layout, ff. 1-119v: 21 long lines, ruled in dry point; writing above top line. Gatherings 1-14 of 8 leaves plus f. 113; final quire of 6 leaves. Quire signatures as roman numerals on last leaf verso of the gathering.

Former Owner(s):

Copied at the Benedictine house of Lambach, in upper Austria. Armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Radcliffe, Bart., of Rudding Park, Harrogate, Yorkshire. Acquired from H. P. Kraus, New York, in 1967.

Lambach Abbey WIKIDATA

Copied at the Benedictine house of Lambach, in upper Austria. Armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Radcliffe, Bart., of Rudding Park, Harrogate, Yorkshire. Acquired from H. P. Kraus, New York, in 1967.

Hans P. Kraus WIKIDATA

Note:

ff. 1-119v: See L Fagin Davis, The Gottschalk antiphonary : music and liturgy in twelfth-century Lambach(Cambrige University Press, 2000), pp. 32-33 and fig. 12 for Scribe "B."
ff. 1-119v: Latin.
ff. 1-118: Contains book 17-18, i.e. the so-called "Priscianus minor."
Explicit, ff. 1-118: Quoniam inante expositis libris de partibus orationis in plerisque apollonii auctoritatem sumus secuti .
Explicit, ff. 118-119v: Diptongus cuius figure? Composite. Unde componitur? Ex duobus corruptis.

Holding Institution:

University of Missouri