University of Pennsylvania, LJS 452
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS690
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 452
- Title:
- Ex quo vocabularii varii et autentici.
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [14--]
- Language:
- Latin and Middle High German
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 194 leaves : paper ; 218 x 142 (156 x 98) mm bound to 218 x 165 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Täxer, Wolfgang, 16th century
Seilern, Oswald, Count, 1900-1967
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century.
Title from incipit (f. 1r); the work had numerous printed editions in the 15th century under the title Vocabularius ex quo.
Collation: Paper, 194; 1-13¹² 14¹²(-1) 15¹⁰ 16¹⁴ 17⁶(-3); [1-194], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on last leaf of gatherings 1-13, lower right verso.
Layout: Written in 3 columns of 28-39 lines; 2 narrow columns on the left, which contain single letters or abbreviations probably referring to gender and part of speech, and the main column containing dictionary entries and definitions; frame-ruled in faint ink.
Binding: 15th-century German limp parchment with a rigid leather backplate decorated with chainstitching, ornamental scoring and punching, and leather buttons.
Decoration: 2 5-line initials in red with brown penwork (f. 1r); 2-line to 4-line initials in red, at the beginning of each new letter section and occasionally for entries in the middle of letter sections, through H (f. 6v-89r); capitals touched with red (f. 1r-89r).
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold at auction as part of the library of Oswald Seilern at Christie, Manson & Woods, Mar. 26, 2003, lot 11, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Formerly owned by Oswald Seilern, Count of Seilern and Anspang (labels inside upper and lower covers).
Formerly owned by Wolfgang Täxer in the 16th century (Volffgangus Täxer; inscriptions inside upper and lower covers, dated 1539 on lower cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954478973503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3df6k41s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
