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Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38c9r779
Title: Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti
Name: Guillelmus Brito, active 13th century
Date: 1350
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: codices (bound manuscripts), Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Dictionaries, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Dictionary of grammatical forms and definitions of theological, religious, and secular terms, arranged alphabetically; it includes Latinized Hebrew words and gives equivalents in Old French in various instances.
Extent: 264 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 275 x 200 (183 x 130) mm bound to 291 x 204 mm
Language: Latin
Note: Ms. codex., Title from explicit (f. 263r)., 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)., Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch., Collation: Parchment, 264; 1-7¹² 8⁸ 9-10¹² 11¹⁰ 12-13¹² 14¹¹ 15-22¹² 23⁷, gatherings signed i-xxiii, lower center first recto; [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 and occasional marginal drawings of faces (f. 7r, 52r)., Binding: French 18th-century green morocco, spine nearly detached., Origin: Written in Royaumont, France at the Monastery of St. Mary, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch)., Latin and Old French.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38c9r779
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 722
Provenance: Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4555)., 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)., Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955., Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9924875403503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p38c9r779/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:: DS1624
Shelfmark:: Oversize Ms. Codex 722
Title:: Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti

Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum
Author:: Guillelmus Brito, active 13th century

William Brito WIKIDATA
Place:: Royaumont, France

Royaumont TGN

France TGN
Date:: 1350?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT
Language:: Latin and Old French

Latin WIKIDATA

Old French WIKIDATA
Material:: parchment, color illustrations

Parchment AAT
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:: Ms. codex.
Title from explicit (f. 263r).
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).
Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
Collation: Parchment, 264; 1-712 88 9-1012 1110 12-1312 1411 15-2212 237, gatherings signed i-xxiii, lower center first recto; [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...
Binding: French 18th-century green morocco, spine nearly detached.
Origin: Written in Royaumont, France at the Monastery of St. Mary, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4555).
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).
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.
Keyword:: Dictionaries

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

Fourteenth century

codices (bound manuscripts)

Bible

Latin language
Institutional Record:: https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924875403503681
IIIF Manifest:: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p38c9r779/manifest
Holding Institution:: University of Pennsylvania

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