Details

Subjects:

Virgil. Georgica.
Virgil -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Virgil.
Latin literature -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
Latin literature -- Study and teaching.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Dictionaries.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of terms occurring in the Georgics, with accompanying notes, designed for use in a school. Presumably the notes were used in connection with lectures on Vergil's Georgics. Some words in the index are connected with page numbers. Miscellaneous notes include two lines of poetry, a schematic characterization of the word mulier, and pen trials with the name Jacobus.

Contents:

1. p.1-63: Scholia ex Georgicorum P. Vergilii carminibus undique excerpta.
2. p.64-78: Index litterarum.
3. p.79-83: [Miscellaneous notes]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from heading (p. 1).
Collation: Paper, i + 42 + i; 1⁴ 2⁶ 3-7⁴ 8⁸ 9⁴; 1-63, [64-84]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corner or upper center.
Layout: Index (p. 64-78) written in 2 columns in red ink.
Script: Written in a German cursive script.
Watermark: Briquet Ours 12272 (1524-6) and Tête de Bœuf 15268 (1542-3).
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard Rosenthal (New York), 1967.
Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1967.

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. 15 (Ms. Latin 235).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1158

OCLC:

225864661