Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 920: Grammatica latina University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 920: Grammatica latina are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 920 9942265833503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181101457 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4226583 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. Latin Grammatica latina Aristotle scribe Petrus, de Luno former owner Celotti, Luigi, ca. 1789-ca. 1846 former owner Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843 former owner Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

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

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.

 Written in 30 long lines, ruled in light ink. Written in a semigothic cursive script. Sprinkled edges; guide letters in margins for missing decorated initials. Bookplate, Inside front cover Seller's description, Inside front cover Bookplate, Flyleaf 1 recto Decorated catchword, f. 20v Decorated catchword, f. 28v Manicule, f. 38v

Modern boards.

Written in Germany in 1460 (Zacour-Hirsch).

1460 Germany 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. Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology 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 Codices Treatises Manuscripts, Latin--15th century Manuscripts, Renaissance 15th century Treatise Grammar Paper Germany German