Details

Standardized Title:

Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum. Selections.

Subjects:

Hebrew language -- Etymology -- Early works to 1800.
Hebrew language -- Etymology.

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions)
Excerpts.
Etymological dictionaries.
Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Leaf containing entries beginning with the letter G, from Gaas to Gareb. The leaf was written in England, ca. 1220, in early Gothic book script, in 2 columns of 32 lines, with the first line of text above the line, frame-ruled in lead. Initials, paragraph marks, and line-fillers in red.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Part of manuscript formerly owned by John Leeche or Leech; possibly the John Leeche who bequeathed 57 manuscripts to Lanthony Priory, near Gloucester, ca. 1361.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's with other items formerly owned by B. C. Barker-Benfield of the Bodleian Library, 14 Dec. 1977, lot 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Cited as:

LJS 108

Contributor:

Leeche, John, 14th century, former owner.
Barker-Benfield, B. C., former owner.
Lanthony Priory (Gloucestershire, England), former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

794780844

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page