Details

Other Title:

Liber hymnorum metricorum et carminum cum multis glossis

Subjects:

Sermons, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Sermons, Latin.
Hymns, Latin -- Texts.
Hymns, Latin.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Annotations.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Sermons.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Texts.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of hymns with marginal annotations about poetic devices; a poem (possibly nonsensical) about Joannes Benssius of Rotenburg, a teacher, and the possible compiler of the hymns; a copy of Sermon 30 from the pseudo-Augustinian Sermones ad heremitas, inserted in the middle of the poem; a manual for letter writing based on Cicero's De officiis and Sallust; and a poem praising the visitation of the Virgin Mary.

Contents:

1. f.1r-47r: [Hymni cum glossis].
2. f.47v, 49r: Laus deo astripotenti.
3. f.48r-48v: Sermo sancti augustini ad eremitas fratres de confessione / St. Augustine.
4. f.49r-53v: Manuductio sequitur epistolae in eadem.
5. f.54r-55r: Carmen hystoriale de gloriose virginis Marie visitatione.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Collation: Paper; i + 55 + i; 1¹⁴ 2-3¹⁶ 4⁹(+2); [1-55]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Work 1 written in 15 long lines; work 2 written in 14 long lines; work 4 written in 18 long lines; work 5 written in 16 long lines.
Script: Written in various scripts, including secretary cursive, later German cursive, and a Gothic script for section headings and titles.
Watermark: On manuscript pages: Briquet Tete de Bœuf 14583 (1478), Briquet Tete de Bœuf 15374 (1488). On front and back fly leaves: watermarks similar to Churchill 96 (1799) and Churchill 133 (1755); both are 18th century Dutch watermarks.
Decoration: 1-line and 2-line initials in red and brown, in main text and in annotations.
Binding: 18th-century boards.
Origin: Written in Germany, possibly Leipzig, in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Alfred C. 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. 6-7 (Ms. Latin 208).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 919

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Spurious and doubtful works.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis.

OCLC:

181084933

Web link:

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