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

Title

Doctrinale

Authors

• Alexander, de Villa Dei

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 694
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212056979
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487484

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

between 1275 and 1299

Place

France

Summary

Fragment of the Doctrinale (incomplete at the beginning), with extensive marginal commentary and annotations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from explicit (f. 27r): Explicit Doctrinale magistri Alexandri de Villa Dei...
   
• Some folios are stained from previous mold damage; much of the commentary has faded or is worn off, however the primary text is legible throughout.
   

Extent

27 leaves : 234 x 166 (180 x 63) mm. bound to 240 x 170 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii (18th-century paper) + 27 + ii (18th-century paper); [1-27]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century leather.

Layout

Written in 38 long lines in dark brown ink; ruled in ink; prickings visible.

Decoration

Decorated initials in red and green on most folios, some of the decoration has faded.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with marginal commentary in several additional hands that completely fills most pages between the lines of text and to the margins.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 190 (f. 1r).
   
• Sold by J. Rosenthal, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r