Ohio State University, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.459
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS11876
- Shelfmark:
- Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.459
- Title:
- Institutiones Grammaticae
- Author:
- Priscian
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- ca. 1275
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: fols. 1; membrane; 203 x 146 (145 x 95)
- Former Owner(s):
- Roger Martin
Bloomsbury
- Note:
- Layout: 1 column, 31 lines
Decoration: Occasional 1-line pilcrows; occasional capitals stoked in red
Lightly ruled in plummet
binding fragment, once used as pastedown
reader-added annotation in lower margin of recto
scribe uses strings of minims in place of Greek text that should appear in text; either the scribe did not know how to write Greek, or the exemplar lacked these quotations
A pair of small letter "g"s written one above the other at the upper left corner of recto
Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Roger Martin (Grimsby, UK), eventually sold after Martin's death in 2020 via Bloomsbury, "The Roger Martin Collection of Western MSS and Miniatures and other properties", 6 July 2021, lot 68. Roger Martin acquired this fragment from a private European collector in 2011.
Text from Bk. 17, Ch. 19 (De constructione)
Incipit: quibus nominatus earum intelligatus
Explicit: ego et ille scribimus . a secunda vero prima - Keyword:
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