Basis grammatice.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
20 leaves : parchment ; 198 x 138 (138 x 75) mm bound to 205 x 148 mm - Production:
- [Paris, France], 1470.
- Online:
- Video orientation
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- Subjects:
- Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1500.
Latin language -- Grammar. - Form/Genre:
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance. - Language:
- Latin, with some French translations in the first conjugation table (f. 8r-9r).
- Summary:
- Summary of Latin grammar arranged in 8 sections for 8 parts of speech, followed by conjugation tables for the 4 conjugations and a commentary on the summary, with the lemmata from the earlier part in red.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-1v: Guillermus Tardivus Aniciensis Karolo Mariete Parisiensi litterarum amorem optat [dedicatory epistle]
2. f.2r-7v: [Summary of Latin grammar]
3. f.8r-10v: [Conjugation tables]
4. f.11r-20v: [Commentary on the summary] - Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1v).
Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century paper) + 20 + i (19th-century paper); 1-2¹⁰; [1-20], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 36 long lines; frame-ruled in red lead; double vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by Guillaume Tardif (signature, f. 20v).
Decoration: 2 4-line initials, 1 filled with pink and a coat of arms on a blue background (f. 1r), 1 filled with blue on a pink background (f. 11r); 2- to 3-line initials in gold, alternating between filled with pink on a blue background and filled with blue on a pink background, throughout; paragraph marks in gold with the same alternation of infill and background throughout; rubrication in red.
Binding: 19th-century quarter leather with shagreen covers; marbled endpapers.
Origin: Written in Paris in 1470 (f. 1v). - Local notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of the author to his pupil Charles Marriette (f. 20v).
Appears in E. K. Schreiber's cat. 21 (1989), no. 94.
Sold by Librairie Thomas-Scheler (Paris), catalog titled Un choix (Apr. 1998), no. 3, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 140-141 (LJS 242).
- Publications about:
- Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 46, 214-15 (cat. 62).
Beltran, Evencio. "Un manuscrit autographe de la Grammatice basis de Guillaume Tardif." In Bibliothêque d'humanisme et Renaissance 61 (1999), no. 2, 495-508. - Cited as:
- LJS 242.
- Contributor:
- Marriette, Charles, 15th century, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 772645214
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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