Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti.

Abstract:

Dictionary of grammatical forms and definitions of theological, religious, and secular terms, arranged alphabetically; it includes Latinized Hebrew words and gives equivalents in Old French in various instances.

Creator:

Guillelmus Brito, active 13th century.

Date:

1350

Identifier:

9924875403503681; (OCoLC)ocn212131003; (OCoLC)212131003; (CStRLIN)PAUR98-A6650; (PU)2487540-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Latin; French, Old (842-ca.1400)

Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.; Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London) in a sale of part of the Phillipps collection, 19-23 May 1913, lot 666 (catalog clipping pasted inside front cover).; Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4555).

Publisher:

[Royaumont, France], [1350?]

Subject:

codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.; Manuscripts, Medieval.; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Dictionaries.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

264 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 275 x 200 (183 x 130) mm bound to 291 x 204 mm

Personal Name:

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

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Explicit: Expliciunt expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti. Deo gratias...hic liber est Beatae Mariae Regalis Montis. Qui titulum delevit vel ab ecclesia furtive alienavit hunc librum sit a deo anathema maranata (f. 263r).; Origin: Written in Royaumont, France at the Monastery of St. Mary, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Title from explicit (f. 263r).; Ms. codex.; Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.; Collation: Parchment, 264; 1-7¹² 8⁸ 9-10¹² 11¹⁰ 12-13¹² 14¹¹ 15-22¹² 23⁷, gatherings signed i-xxiii, lower center first recto; [1-264]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 32-36 lines; frame-ruled in lead.; Script: Written in a Gothic script, with marginal glosses in a similar hand.; Decoration: Rubricated throughout, with alternating red and blue 2-line initials with contrasting red or blue ornamentation at the beginning of each entry; 4-line, 5-line, and 6-line puzzle initials with penwork ornamentation at the beginning of each section (for example, f. 21r, 26r, 51r); 4-line illuminated initial in gold, blue, and pink (f. 1r). Some marginal glosses decorated with yellow and occasional marginal drawings of faces (f. 7r, 52r).; Binding: French 18th-century green morocco, spine nearly detached.; Latin and Old French.

Physical Location:

Oversize Ms. Codex 722