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Title

Hymni cum glossis

Authors

• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Other related names

• Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 919
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942260603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181084930
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4226060

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1450

Place

Germany

Summary

Collection of hymns with marginal annotations about poetic devices; a poem (possibly nonsensical) about Joannes Benssius of Rotenburg, a teacher, and the possible compiler of the hymns; a copy of Sermon 30 from the pseudo-Augustinian Sermones ad heremitas, inserted in the middle of the poem; a manual for letter writing based on Cicero's De officiis and Sallust; and a poem praising the visitation of the Virgin Mary.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Watermark

On manuscript pages: Briquet Tete de Bœuf 14583 (1478), Briquet Tete de Bœuf 15374 (1488). On front and back fly leaves: watermarks similar to Churchill 96 (1799) and Churchill 133 (1755); both are 18th century Dutch watermarks.

Extent

55 leaves : 205 x 155 mm. bound to 208 x 165 mm

Collation

Paper; i + 55 + i; 1¹⁴ 2-3¹⁶ 4⁹(+2); [1-55]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century boards.

Layout

Work 1 written in 15 long lines; work 2 written in 14 long lines; work 4 written in 18 long lines; work 5 written in 16 long lines.

Script

Written in various scripts, including secretary cursive, later German cursive, and a Gothic script for section headings and titles.

Provenance

• Gift of Alfred C. Baugh, 1965.
   

Subjects topical

• Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
• Hymns, Latin--Texts

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Sermons
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Annotated
• Collection of Sermons
• Paper
• German
• Germany
• Hymnal
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Hymni cum glossis, f. 1r
• fol. 47v — Laus deo astripotenti, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Sermo sancti augustini ad eremitas fratres de confessione, f. 48r
• fol. 49r — Manuductio sequitur epistolae in eadem, f. 49r
• fol. 54r — Carmen hystoriale de gloriose virginis Marie visitatione, f. 54r