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Title

Chrestomathy of Latin authors

Authors

• Dinetus, Jacobus

Other related names

• Dinetus, Johannes, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 867
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122445741
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178061

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1540

Place

Paris

Summary

A student's copybook, mostly containing excerpts from Latin authors such as Strabo, Quintilian, Virgil, and Cicero, but also including some astrological material and a collection of Virgil excerpts that supposedly foreshadow the Old and New Testaments. Jacobus Dinetus dedicated it to his father Johannes. The writer has added numerous marginal notes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from supplied title of predominant work (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Mostly empty calendar for 1609 and 1610 on 5 leaves beginning at the back, upside down.
   
• Mostly crossed-out note from 1677 (f. 2r).
   
• A note in French hypothesizes that this book represents the son's account of his studies to his father (f. 1r). The note is in the same hand as the interlinear Latin notes in the collection of Virgil verses.
   

Extent

193 leaves : 192 x 136 (150 x 86) mm. bound to 200 x 143 mm

Foliation

Paper, 193; [1-193]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century calf with gold stamp of Plato on the front and of Dido on the back.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines; ruled in ink.

Script

Written in a cursive script in the hand of Jacobus Dinetus (f. 4v)

Provenance

• Sold by LaMedicea (Cat. Libri Rari, no. 168), 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin literature--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800
• Latin poetry--Early works to 1800
• Astrology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century

Keywords

• Anthology
• 16th century
• Astrology
• Literature -- Poetry
• France
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Index to the chrestomathy, f. 2r
• fol. 4v — Dedication letter, f. 4v
• fol. 8r — Chrestomathy, f. 8r
• fol. 130r — Dicta astrologorum, f. 130r
• fol. 140v — Carmen ex diversis Virgili versibus, f. 140v