Details

Other Title:

Emblem[s], &c.

Subjects:

Bible -- Quotations.
Bible.
Epigrams.
Proverbs, Latin.

Form/Genre:

Quotations.
Codices.
Anthologies.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

English, with quotations in Latin.

Summary:

Collection of sayings, etc., many of which are from the Bible. Throughout the manuscript, Latin quotations are followed by short English renderings and expositions. Epigraph (f. 1r): Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur. Colophon (f. 119v): This Booke hath bene corrected by ye orreggenall, worde for worde.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 4r). Spine title: Emblem[s], &c.
No indication of author or scribe, except perhaps at the bottom of f. 119r: Pray for your friend & servant Chr: Br.
Foliation: Paper, [1-120]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines.
Script: Latin quotations and their English renderings are in a minuscule book script; the exposition is in a more cursive script by the same hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, with label: Emblem[s] & c, 1700. Between f. 4-5 there is a stub from a parchment ms. used for binding. Spine label crumbling, partly missing.
Origin: Written in England, ca. 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch). Spine label gives date of 1700.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by J.R.P. Forrest of Edinburgh (bookplate, inside upper cover); description in English from unidentified dealer's catalog (pasted inside upper cover).
Gift of Albert Croll Baugh, 1965.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 20 (Ms. English 31).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 240

Contributor:

Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

OCLC:

155962852