Details

Subjects:

Didactic poetry, Latin.
Latin language -- Study and teaching.
Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1500.
Latin language -- Grammar.
Latin language -- Metrics and rhythmics.
Latin language -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Didactic poetry, Latin.
Annotations.
Codices.
Commentaries.
Poems.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Theobaldus was also known as Tebaldus Placentinus, a cleric and noted verse writer, who may also have been Abbot of Montecassino from 1022 - 1035, the author of the Physiologus.

Summary:

Didactic poem outlining the rules of syllabic usage in composition with marginal and interlinear commentary, and an anonymous treatise of prosody.

Contents:

1. f.1-13r: [Regulae de longis et brevibus syllabis] / Tebaldus Placentinus
2. f.13r-15r: [Treatise on prosody]
3. f.15v: [Dedicatory lines of verse]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Collation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 15 + iii (modern paper); 1⁸ 2⁸(-8); [1-15]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Work 1 written in 18 long lines, with marginal and interlinear annotations; work 2 written in 30 long lines; both works ruled in drypoint; prickings visible.
Script: Written in an Italian Gothic book script.
Decoration: Red 1-line and 2-line initials.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in North Italy, ca. 1200 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Owned by Paulo Nicelli, son of Petro, erased date 1275 (line 1, f. 15v, Zacour-Hirsch).
Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 174; sold by Kraus (New York), 1960.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 35 (Ms. Latin 152).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 918.

OCLC:

176636833

Web link:

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