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Title

Liber mayor Prisciani de ordinatione partium orationis

Authors

• Priscian, fl. ca. 500-530

Call number

Ms. Codex 1243
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943751913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/238775257
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4375191

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1250 and 1299

Place

Paris?

Summary

Books 17 and 18 of Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae, also known as De constructione, a guide to syntax. The Institutiones are a systematic examination and explanation of Latin grammar and were a staple of the medieval study of Latin. The text contains extensive interlinear and marginal annotations in Latin in a secretary script. Text at the end of the manuscript (f. 53v), seemingly not by Priscian, discusses Adonic meter.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

53 leaves : 250 x 195 (129 x 97) mm. bound to 262 x 195 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (modern paper) + 53 + i (modern paper); i-liii; contemporary foliation in Roman numerals in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century half vellum.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 31 lines; frame-ruled in lead, with main text written on alternate lines in text block and annotations, when present, written on every line in margins (for example, f. 51v).

Decoration

Initials of 2-5 lines in blue and red ink; paragraph markers alternating in red or blue ink; chapter headings in margins in red ink; sketches in ink of a man (f. 14r), tree (f. 22r), and stag (f. 24r); manicules, some with decorated cuffs (f. 20v, 22v, 24r, 24v, 26v, 31r, 37r).

Script

Written in a Gothic script, with annotations in a secretary script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the monastery of Santa Maria de Carreto, 15th century (f. 53v).
   
• Sold at auction at Hoepli, 21 May 1931, lot 75.
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1965.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Grammars (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Annotated
• Grammar
• French
• France
• Instructional materials

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 53v — Discussion of Adonic meter, f. 53v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Puzzle initial, Initial Q, f. 1r
• fol. 3v — Manicule, f. 3v
• fol. 7v — Penwork initial, Initial L, f. 7v
• fol. 10r — Penwork initial, Initial R, f. 10r
• fol. 10v — Penwork initial, Initial O, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Penwork initial, Initial O, f. 11r
• fol. 11r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Penwork initial, Initial B, f. 11v
• fol. 11v — Penwork initial, Initial S, f. 11v
• fol. 12v — Penwork initial, Initial T, f. 12v
• fol. 14r — Drawing, Man, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Framed marginal note, f. 14v
• fol. 15v — Manicule, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Drawing, f. 16r
• fol. 20v — Manicule, f. 20v
• fol. 21v — Manicule, f. 21v
• fol. 22r — Manicule, f. 22r
• fol. 22r — Drawing, Tree, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Manicule, f. 22v
• fol. 23v — Manicule, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Manicule, f. 24r
• fol. 24r — Drawing, Stag, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Manicule, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Manicule, f. 25r
• fol. 25v — Manicule, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Manicule, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Manicule, f. 26v
• fol. 30v — Manicule, f. 30v
• fol. 31r — Manicule, f. 31r
• fol. 33r — Manicule, f. 33r
• fol. 34v — Manicule, f. 34v
• fol. 35r — Manicule, f. 35r
• fol. 36r — Penwork initial and heading, Initial I, f. 36r
• fol. 37r — Manicule, f. 37r
• fol. 38v — Manicule, f. 38v
• fol. 41r — Manicule, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Manicule, f. 41v
• fol. 41v — Drawing, Face, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Manicule, f. 42r
• fol. 46r — Manicule, f. 46r
• fol. 50r — Penwork initial, Initial Q, f. 50r
• fol. 53v — Owner note, f. 53v