Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Guillelmus Brito, active 13th century.

Contributor:

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

Language:

French, Old (ca. 842-1300)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible--Latin--Versions--Vulgate--Dictionaries--Latin.

Bible.

Bible--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4555).

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).

Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.

Physical Description:

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

Production:

[Royaumont, France], [1350?]

Language Note:

Latin and Old French.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from explicit (f. 263r).

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).

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.

Origin: Written in Royaumont, France at the Monastery of St. Mary, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Listed in Phillipps, Thomas. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca d. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart. A. D. 1837 ([Middle Hill]: [Phillipps], 1837), p.74 (no. 4555).

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. 9 (Ms. Latin 39).

Daly, Lloyd W. and Daly, Bernadine A., eds. Summa Britonis, sive, Guillelmi Britonis Expositiones vocabulorum Biblie, Padua, 1975.

Cited as:

Guillelmus Brito, Expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum (Oversize Ms. Codex 722). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

212131003

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