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Metadata

DS ID:

DS690

Shelfmark:

LJS 452

Title:

Ex quo vocabularii varii [et] aute[n]tici

Liber de spiritu et anima

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and Middle High German

Latin WIKIDATA

Middle High German WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

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

Wolfgang Täxer WIKIDATA

Seilern, Oswald, Count, 1900-1967

Oswald Carl Friedrich von Seilern und Aspang WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
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. Link to collation model at end of record.
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.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.
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).
Binding: 15th-century German limp parchment with a rigid leather backplate decorated with chainstitching, ornamental scoring and punching, and leather buttons.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century.
Formerly owned by Wolfgang Täxer in the 16th century (Volffgangus Täxer; inscriptions inside upper and lower covers, dated 1539 on lower cover).
Formerly owned by Oswald Seilern, Count of Seilern and Anspang (labels inside upper and lower covers).
Sold at auction as part of the library of Oswald Seilern at Christie, Manson & Woods, Mar. 26, 2003, lot 11, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Controlled vocabularies

Manuscripts, Renaissance

dictionaries

Dictionaries

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Manuscripts, German

German language

1050-1500

German language--Middle High German

Early works

Latin language, Medieval and modern

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9954478973503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3df6k41s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania