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

Title

Grammatica latina

Authors

• Aristotle

Other related names

• Petrus, de Luno, scribe
• Celotti, Luigi, ca. 1789-ca. 1846, former owner
• Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, former owner
• Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 920
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942265833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181101457
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4226583

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1460

Place

Germany

Summary

Treatise on Latin grammar, based on the teachings of Aristotle. Such a work is typical of medieval and Renaissance education theory, which combined topics like logic and rhetoric as well as syntax and grammar under the label of grammatica.

Notes

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

Extent

38 leaves : 205 x 145 (148 x 96) mm. bound to 211 x 153 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 38 + i; 1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰; 1-5, [v], 6-10, [v], 11-14, [iv], 15-19, [v]; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; quires signed a-d on numbered pages.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines, ruled in light ink.

Decoration

Sprinkled edges; guide letters in margins for missing decorated initials.

Script

Written in a semigothic cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's, 14 Mar. 1825, lot 256.
   
• Sold in the collection of Richard Heber at auction by Evans (London), 10 Feb. 1836, lot 1358.
   
• Sold in the collection of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (London, 1773-1843, engraved bookplate bearing coat-of-arms inside upper cover, with shelfmark VI. B. c. 7; engraved bookplate bearing the Maltese cross of the Order of Bath on the recto of the first flyleaf) at auction by Evans (London), 31 July 1844, lot 408.
   
• Sold in the Boyle collection at auction by Stan. V. Henkels (Philadelphia), 17 Feb. 1930, lot 486.
   
• Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1965.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500
• Rhetoric, Ancient--Study and teaching--To 1500
• Latin language--Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
• Latin language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Grammar
• Paper
• Germany
• German

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover
• fol. 20v — Decorated catchword, f. 20v
• fol. 28v — Decorated catchword, f. 28v
• fol. 38v — Manicule, f. 38v