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Ex quo vocabularii autentici varii.

Publication:
[Aachen], [between 1450 and 1499]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
238 leaves : paper ; 210 x 145 (158 x 91) mm bound to 212 x 147 mm
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Other Title:
Vocabularius
Vocabularius ex quo.
Subjects:
Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Dictionaries -- German -- Early works to 1800.
Low German language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1500.
Latin language -- Grammar.
Low German language.
Latin language, Medieval and modern.
Germany.
Form/Genre:
Finding tabs.
Codices.
Dictionaries.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.
Language:
Latin and Low German.
Summary:
Latin-German dictionary with informal notes on grammar and writing, written for the purpose of helping German readers better understand the Bible and other texts in Latin. Dictionary entries are organized alphabetically. Alphabetized finding tabs with red lettering located at the beginning of each letter category in the dictionary (one broken off). An introductory paragraph in Latin in the dictionary (f. 11r) refers to and criticizes the earlier work of Uguccione da Pisa and the Vocabularius breviloquus of Johann Reuchlin.
Contents:
1. f.1r-10r: [Notes and diagrams on grammar].
2. f.11r-236r: Ex quo vocabularii autentici varii sunt in numero.
3. f.237v-238r: [Notes on grammar].
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from incipit of predominant work (f. 11r); spine title Vocabularius; the work had numerous printed editions in the 15th century under the title Vocabularius ex quo.
Foliation: Paper, ii +238 + iv; [1-238]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 3 columns of about 30 lines; text block outlined in ink.
Script: Written in a German cursive, with the decorative heading on f. 11r in a Gothic book hand; unidentified text on the pastedowns in Gothic book hand and secretary scripts.
Watermark: Briquet Fruit 7424 (1427), Raisin 12991 (1420).
Decoration: 2-line and 3-line red initials throughout; 3-line to 7-line initials to introduce each new letter category, sometimes with geometric or floral patterns, in red (except, Q on f. 169r, in black); decorated initial E in red, yellow, and green, with ears of wheat, flowers, and leaves (f. 11r); manicules with decorated sleeves (f. 25v, 28v, 29r, 35v).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch), with remains of metal clasp on upper and lower covers; unidentified text on pastedowns inside upper and lower covers.
Origin: Written in Aachen, Germany in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Sold in the collection of Walter Sneyd at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 37.
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1960.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 33 (Ms. Latin 142).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1152.
Contributor:
Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, -1210.
Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.
Reuchlin, Johann, 1455-1522.
OCLC:
221970277
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