Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti.

Authors

• Guillelmus Brito, active 13th century

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542)

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 722
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212130985
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38c9r779

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin and Old French

Origin

Date

1350?

Place

Royaumont, France

Summary

Dictionary of grammatical forms and definitions of theological, religious, and secular terms, arranged alphabetically; it includes Latinized Hebrew words and gives equivalents in Old French in various instances.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from explicit (f. 263r).
   
• Explicit: Expliciunt expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti. Deo gratias...hic liber est Beatae Mariae Regalis Montis. Qui titulum delevit vel ab ecclesia furtive alienavit hunc librum sit a deo anathema maranata (f. 263r).
   
• Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
   

Extent

264 leaves : 275 x 200 (183 x 130) mm bound to 291 x 204 mm

Collation

Parchment, 264; 1-7¹² 8⁸ 9-10¹² 11¹⁰ 12-13¹² 14¹¹ 15-22¹² 23⁷, gatherings signed i-xxiii, lower center first recto; [1-264]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

French 18th-century green morocco, spine nearly detached.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 32-36 lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

Rubricated throughout, with alternating red and blue 2-line initials with contrasting red or blue ornamentation at the beginning of each entry; 4-line, 5-line, and 6-line puzzle initials with penwork ornamentation at the beginning of each section (for example, f. 21r, 26r, 51r); 4-line illuminated initial in gold, blue, and pink (f. 1r). Some marginal glosses decorated with yellow and occasional marginal drawings of faces (f. 7r, 52r).

Script

Written in a Gothic script, with marginal glosses in a similar hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4555).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London) in a sale of part of the Phillipps collection, 19-23 May 1913, lot 666 (catalog clipping pasted inside front cover).
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.
   

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Dictionaries
• Dictionaries

Keywords

• 14th century
• France
• Christian
• Bible
• Dictionary

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Sellers' descriptions, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 1r
• fol. 7r — Drawing, Face, f. 7r
• fol. 21r — Puzzle initial, Initial B, f. 21r
• fol. 26r — Puzzle initial, Initial C, f. 26r
• fol. 51r — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 51r
• fol. 52r — Drawing, Face, f. 52r
• fol. 61v — Puzzle initial, Initial E, f. 61v
• fol. 74v — Puzzle initial, Initial F, f. 74v
• fol. 89r — Puzzle initial, Initial G, f. 89r
• fol. 93r — Puzzle initial, Initial H, f. 93r
• fol. 96v — Puzzle intiial, Initial I, f. 96v
• fol. 110v — Puzzle initial, Initial K, f. 110v
• fol. 111r — Puzzle initial, Initial L, f. 111r
• fol. 123r — Puzzle initial, Initial M, f. 123r
• fol. 139v — Puzzle initial, Initial N, f. 139v
• fol. 149r — Puzzle initial, Initial O, f. 149r
• fol. 157v — Puzzle initial, Initial P, f. 157v
• fol. 193r — Puzzle initial, Initial Q, f. 193r
• fol. 196r — Puzzle initial, Initial R, f. 196r
• fol. 207r — Puzzle initial, Initial S, f. 207r
• fol. 238r — Puzzle initial, Initial T, f. 238r
• fol. 251r — Puzzle initial, Initial U, f. 251r
• fol. 262r — Puzzle initial, Initial X, f. 262r