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

Title

Lexicological notes

Other related names

• Ménage, Gilles, 1613-1692, dubious author

Call number

Ms. Codex 994
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3751433
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3751433

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French, with Latin and Greek quotations

Origin

Date

after 1678

Place

France

Summary

One section of a larger collection of notes on word meanings and origins, especially in the areas of natural history and geography, with references to classical authors such as Pliny, Galen, Virgil, and Suetonius, often in Latin or Greek, and a smaller number of biblical references. The words are not in alphabetical order, but sometimes are grouped according to source.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; Rudolf Hirsch used the title Notes et remarques lexicographiques based on the pencil notes inside the upper cover. The same notes report an attribution to Gilles Ménage. The date 1678 appears on page 2179.
   

Extent

274 leaves : 214 x 158 mm. bound to 227 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, 296 leaves; 1891-2439; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center, suggests this is a section of a larger work; [1-596]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment (Hirsch).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1964.
   

Subjects topical

• French language--Lexicology, Historical--Early works to 1800
• Language and languages--Etymology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Etymological dictionaries
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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