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[Florilegium].

Format/Description:
Manuscript
71 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 187-195 x 138-144 (144 x 94) mm bound to 202 x 154 mm
Production:
[Oxford?, England], [circa 1250]
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Sermons, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Sermons, Latin.
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
Natural history.
Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
Zoology.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Anthologies.
Diagrams.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Language:
Latin, with one inscription in Hebrew (f. 20r).
Summary:
Collection of sermons, probably compiled from multiple sources, belonging to a preacher, probably Dominican. Many marginal notes, some indicating the liturgical season or the theme of a sermon, a few noting a cited source (including Ambrose, Gamaliel, and Isidore). Also excerpts from De animalibus, attributed to Aristotle (f.3r-4r, 61r-68r); notes on natural history including information on birds and insects, arranged alphabetically, followed by information on metals (f. 4r-10v); and excerpts from Isidore's Etymologies (f. 56r-60v). The lower center margin of each page contains a sequential number, often repeated for multiple pages, that indicates a section or possibly a source; as the manuscript is currently bound, the sequence is 34-37, 1-15, which suggests that the current beginning (f. 1r-12v) was originally at the end of or later in this manuscript, with a large number of leaves after the existing end missing. Numbers in the upper center margin (15-18, 22-36) seem meant to serve the same function, though the sections in the two schemes do not always correspond; they are later than those in the lower margin. In each numbered section, the columns are assigned letters and each column is divided from top to bottom into 9 segments, allowing cross-references by section, column, and segment; there are numerous cross-references in this form throughout the manuscript, contemporaneous with the section numbers in the lower margin. The quality of the parchment is quite low, with a number of holes and defects. The Hebrew inscription (f. 20v), possibly in the same ink as some of the cross-reference numbers in between the columns but written after them, consists of the Hebrew alphabet in 2 lines, including both regular and terminal forms, and the first 3 verses of the Song of Solomon.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 71 + i (modern paper) ; 1-53, 55-72; later foliation in red ink, lower center recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 53-64 lines, with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible on many leaves.
Script: Written in scholastic script.
Decoration: Diagrams of distinctions (f. 1v-2r, 11v-13v, 17r, 20v, 24r, 43r-43v, 46v-47r, 63r, 72v); paragraph marks, some initials, and some underlining in red in limited sections of manuscript (f. 1r-19v, 29v-31r); blue paragraph marks on one leaf (f. 71v); occasional manicules (for example, f. 29r, 31v, 55v).
Binding: Modern parchment over pasteboard.
Origin: Written in England, perhaps at the Dominican Convent in Oxford, ca. 1250.
Local notes:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by a French dealer to Andre Rooryck.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 July 2005, lot 50, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Cited in:
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 136 (LJS 477).
Cited as:
UPenn LJS 477.
Contributor:
Rooryck, AndreĢ, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Contains:
Aristotle.
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636. Etymologiae.
OCLC:
793019204