Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ethimologiarum manuscript, 13th century / secundum Isydori episcopi Hispalensis.

Authors

• Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, author.

Other related names

• Wylmyn, Johannes, active 15th century, former owner., former owner
• Kinnoull, George Hay, Earl of, 1827-1897, former owner., former owner
• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.b.31
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=224768

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England, probably Oxford

Summary

Contains the incomplete text of Isidore's Etymologies (begins in the middle of chapter eight of book three).

Notes

• Manuscript on parchment (sheepskin).
   
• Title from colophon on leaf 205r.
   
• Pen-trials and scribblings on leaf 205v, including "Honorificabilcontinitatibus esto" (see Burning-Lawrence, Bacon is Shakespeare, 1910, chapter 10); also includes a sketch of a dog.
   
• Uniform title: [Etymologiae]
   

Extent

Iii (paper) + 205 + v (paper); 285 x 185 mm

Collation

1 (12), 2 (14), 3 (12), 4 (14), 5-16 (12), 17 (10) (wants 10) (singles: 2 3)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

horizontal catchwords throughout

Binding

Bound in old calf.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 39 lines (dimensions of written space: 205 x 125 mm); writing begins below the top line; all lines have double prickings; framed ruled in lead with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines; headings written in alternating blue and red letters throughout; minor marginalia with manicules.

Decoration

Decorated with blue and red initials, with pen flourishings throughout. Two consanguinity charts on leaves 74v and 75r.

Script

Written by multiple scribes in a Gothic hand; English cursive hand appears in some places.

Provenance

• Given by Wylton to Johannes Wylmyn; also formerly owned by 12th Earl of Kinnoull (bookplate); W.T. Smedley. Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.2

Subjects topical

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Authorship --Baconian theory --Manuscripts
• Kinship --Early works to 1800, depicted
• Great Britain --England

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --England --13th century
• Dictionaries --England --13th century --Manuscripts
• Annotations (Provenance) --England

Keywords

• 13th century
• English
• England
• Science
• Dictionary

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Book III (beginning lacking); incipit: ...superantur ix ad duodecem. Secundum geometricam uero ita queris. Extrema multiplicata tantum faciunt... (fol. 1r); explicit: ...implicatos a terrenis rebus abduceret et in superna contemplatione collocarent. (fol. 9r)
• fol. 9v — Book IV; incipit: Medicina est que corporis uel tuetur uel restaurat salutem... (fol. 9v); explicit: ...nam sicut per illam anima, ita per hanc corpus curatur. (fol. 14r)
• fol. 14r — Book V; incipit: Moyses genti Hebree primus omnium diuinas leges sacris litteris... (fol. 14r); explicit: ...residuum sexte etatis quid cccxxv tempus soli Deo est cognitum. (fol. 25r)
• fol. 25v — Book VI; incipit: Vetus testamentum ideo dicitur quia ueniente nouo cessauit... (fol. 25v); explicit: ...sacre enim res de rebus execrandorum fiebant antiquitus. (fol. 37v)
• fol. 37v — Book VII; incipit: Beatissimus Ieronimus uir eruditissimus et multarum linguarum peritus... (fol. 37v); explicit: ...id est aduena et circumcisus qui miscebatur populo dicitur Grecum est. (fol. 51r)
• fol. 51r — Book VIII; incipit: Ecclesia Grecum est quod in Latinum uertitur conuocatio... (fol. 51r); explicit: ...amator per meos fines et aprica rura lenis incedas. (fol. 62r)
• fol. 62r — Book IX; incipit: Linguarum diuersitas exorta est in edificatione turris post diluuium... (fol. 62r); explicit: ...etatis essent propter ipsam animi leuitatem in tutela consistere. (fol. 76r)
• fol. 76r — Book X; incipit: De quibusdam nominibus hominum per alphabetum distinctus. Origo quorundam nominum... (fol. 76r); explicit: ...quattuor autem sunt uenatorum officia: uestigatores, indagatores, alatores, pressores. (fol. 86r)
• fol. 86r — Book XI; incipit: Natura dicta ab eo quod nasci aliquid faciat... (fol. 86r); explicit: ...si demas brachia canceri, scorpio exibit, caudaque minabitur unca. (fol. 96r)
• fol. 96r — Book XII; incipit: Omnibus animantibus Adam primus indidit uocabula appellans unicuique nomen... (fol. 96r); explicit: ...Gurgulio dicitur quia pene nichil est aliud nisi guttur. (fol. 112v)
• fol. 112v — Book XIII; incipit: Mundus est celum terra mare et omnia que in eis sunt opera Dei... (fol. 112v); explicit: ...ad presens inferre dampna set eciam et aliqua significare futura. (fol. 121r)
• fol. 121r — Book XIV; incipit: Terra est in media mundi regione posita omnibus partibus celi in modum centri... (fol. 121r); explicit: ...philosophi autem dicunt quod inferi pro eo dicuntur quod anime hinc ibi ferantur. (fol. 134r)
• fol. 134r — Book XV; incipit: De auctoribus conditarum urbium plerumque dissencio inuenitur... (fol. 134r); explicit: ...uocata quod hiis uie precurrencium inuestigentur, id est agnoscantur. (fol. 146r)
• fol. 146r — Book XVI; incipit: Puluis dictus quodui uenti pellatur. Tollitur enim eius flatu nec resistit... (fol. 146r); explicit: ...Grecum in dextro brachio superiori o littera coniuncta cenix est.(fol. 161r)
• fol. 161r — Book XVII; incipit: Rerum rusticarum scribendi solercia aput grecos primus Esiodus Boecius humanis... (fol. 161r); explicit: ...odoris summi cum leui acrimonia. Menta; huius generis sex. (fol. 175v)
• fol. 176r — Book XVIII; incipit: Primus bella intulit Ninus Assiriorum rex. Ipse enim finibus suis... (fol. 176r); explicit: ...Suram dicitur dare qui pilam crure prolato feriendam collusoribus prebet. (fol. 184v)
• fol. 184v — Book XIX; incipit: Arcium quarundam uocabula quibus aliquid fabricatur uel instrumenta artificum... (fol. 184v); explicit: ...corrigie a coriis uocantur, uel a colligatione, quasi colligie. (fol. 198r)
• fol. 198r — Book XX; incipit: Primus Dedalus mensam et sellam fecit. Coquine apparatum Apicius quidam primus composuit... (fol. 198r); explicit: ...Quod interdum pro signo, interdum pro cura adhibetur ut uis morbi ignis adore siccetur. (fol. 205r)
• fol. 205v — Ownership notes and pen trials

Decorations

• fol. 74v — Diagram: Tree of Consanguinity
• fol. 75r — Diagram: Diagram of Affinity