[Doctrinale].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Alexander, de Villa Dei

Contributor:

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

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500.

Latin language--Grammar.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 190 (f. 1r).

Sold by J. Rosenthal, 1952.

Physical Description:

27 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 234 x 166 (180 x 63) mm bound to 240 x 170 mm

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1275 and 1299]

Summary:

Fragment of the Doctrinale (incomplete at the beginning), with extensive marginal commentary and annotations.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and attribution from explicit (f. 27r): Explicit Doctrinale magistri Alexandri de Villa Dei...

Foliation: Parchment, ii (18th-century paper) + 27 + ii (18th-century paper); [1-27]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout: Written in 38 long lines in dark brown ink; ruled in ink; prickings visible.

Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with marginal commentary in several additional hands that completely fills most pages between the lines of text and to the margins.

Decoration: Decorated initials in red and green on most folios, some of the decoration has faded.

Binding: 18th-century leather.

Origin: Written in France, late 13th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Some folios are stained from previous mold damage; much of the commentary has faded or is worn off, however the primary text is legible throughout.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 45).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 694

OCLC:

212056990