Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Commentary on the Doctrinale puerorum

Authors

• Albert II, Duke of Austria, ca. 1298-1358

Other related names

• Seilern-Aspang, Oswald, Count, 1901-1967, former owner

Call number

LJS 451
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9947385063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/818646053
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4738506

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1279 and 1299

Place

France

Summary

Anonymous commentary on a 12th-century didactic poem composed by the French Franciscan Alexander de Villa Dei addressing parts of speech, syntax, and rhetorical figures. Opening of a letter by Albert II, Duke of Austria, Styria, and Carinthia, transcribed in German by a later hand on last verso.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

60 leaves : 195 x 137 (168 x 120) mm. bound to 203 x 152 mm

Collation

Parchment, 60 ; 1¹⁰ 2¹⁰ (+11) 3-5¹⁰ 6¹⁰ (-5); gatherings 2-4 signed II-IIII in roman numerals in red ink, lower center of last verso.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century Germanic cloth-backed paper and boards.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 50-54 lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible in most margins.

Decoration

4-line initial in red with extensions and flourishing in red and black (f. 1v); 3-line initials and paragraph marks in red throughout first 5 gatherings (f. 1v-51v); lemmata underlined in red through most of first 5 gatherings (f. 1v-48r). Spaces for initials to be added left blank in last gathering (f. 53v-60v).

Script

Written in Gothic cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Count Oswald von Seilern-Aspang (circular armorial bookplate inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's, 26 March 2003, lot 4, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500
• Latin language--Syntax--Early works to 1800
• Latin language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• French
• France
• Commentary
• Grammar
• Philosophy

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover