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Title

Ex quo vocabularii autentici varii

Authors

• Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, -1210
• Reuchlin, Johann, 1455-1522

Other related names

• Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1152
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942930383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221970268
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4293038

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin and Low German

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1499

Place

Aachen

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.

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.
   

Watermark

Briquet Fruit 7424 (1427), Raisin 12991 (1420).

Extent

238 leaves : 210 x 145 (158 x 91) mm. bound to 212 x 147 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii +238 + iv; [1-238]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Written in 3 columns of about 30 lines; text block outlined in ink.

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).

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.

Provenance

• Sold in the collection of Walter Sneyd at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 37.
   
• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin language, Medieval and modern--Dictionaries--German--Early works to 1800
• Low German language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500

Genres

• Finding tabs
• Codices
• Dictionaries
• Manuscripts, German--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Paper
• Dictionary
• Grammar

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Notes and diagrams on grammar, f. 1r
• fol. 11r — Ex quo vocabularii autentici varii sunt in numero, f. 11r
• fol. 237v — Notes on grammar, f. 237v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside front cover
• fol. 11r — Finding tab, f. 11r
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 11r
• fol. 25v — Manicule, f. 25v
• fol. 28v — Manicule, f. 28v
• fol. 29r — Manicule, f. 29r
• fol. 31r — Finding tab, f. 31r
• fol. 35v — Manicule, f. 35v
• fol. 36r — Finding tab, f. 36r
• fol. 57r — Finding tab, f. 57r
• fol. 67v — Finding tab, f. 67v
• fol. 76r — Finding tab, f. 76r
• fol. 86r — Finding tab, f. 86r
• fol. 91r — Finding tab, f. 91r
• fol. 109v — Finding tab, f. 109v
• fol. 130r — Finding tab, f. 130r
• fol. 169r — Finding tab, f. 169r
• fol. 173r — Finding tab, f. 173r
• fol. 212r — Finding tab, f. 212r
• fol. 224r — Finding tab, f. 224r
• fol. 235r — Finding tab, f. 235r