University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 722

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DS ID:

DS1624

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 722

Title:

Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti.

Author:

Guillelmus Brito, active 13th century

William Brito WIKIDATA

Place:

Royaumont, France

Royaumont TGN

Date:

[1350?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and Old French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 264 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 275 x 200 (183 x 130) mm bound to 291 x 204 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Explicit: Expliciunt expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti. Deo gratias...hic liber est Beatae Mariae Regalis Montis. Qui titulum delevit vel ab ecclesia furtive alienavit hunc librum sit a deo anathema maranata (f. 263r).
Binding: French 18th-century green morocco, spine nearly detached.
Title from explicit (f. 263r).
Ms. codex.
Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
Foliation: Parchment, 264; [1-264]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 32-36 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic script, with marginal glosses in a similar hand.
Decoration: Rubricated throughout, with alternating red and blue 2-line initials with contrasting red or blue ornamentation at the beginning of each entry; 4-line, 5-line, and 6-line puzzle initials with penwork ornamentation at the beginning of each section (for example, f. 21r, 26r, 51r); 4-line illuminated initial in gold, blue, and pink (f. 1r). Some marginal glosses decorated with yellow...
Origin: Written in Royaumont, France at the Monastery of St. Mary, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London) in a sale of part of the Phillipps collection, 19-23 May 1913, lot 666 (catalog clipping pasted inside front cover).
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4555).

Keyword:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Manuscripts, Latin

Codices

Manuscripts, Medieval

Controlled vocabularies

Dictionaries

Bible--Latin--Versions--Vulgate--Dictionaries--Latin

Bible

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875403503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38c9r779/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania