[Hymni cum glossis].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.
• Sermons, Latin.
• Hymns, Latin--Texts.
• Hymns, Latin.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• annotations
• manuals (instructional materials)
• sermons
• hymns
• Manuscripts, Latin.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.
• Texts.

Penn Provenance:

• Gift of Alfred C. Baugh, 1965.

Physical Description:

55 leaves : paper ; 205 x 155 mm bound to 208 x 165 mm

Production:

[Germany], [1450?]

Other Title:

Liber hymnorum metricorum et carminum cum multis glossis

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of hymns with marginal annotations about poetic devices; a poem (possibly nonsensical) about Joannes Benssius of Rotenburg, a teacher, and the possible compiler of the hymns; a copy of Sermon 30 from the pseudo-Augustinian Sermones ad heremitas, inserted in the middle of the poem; a manual for letter writing based on Cicero's De officiis and Sallust; and a poem praising the visitation of the Virgin Mary.

Contents:

• 1. f.1r-47r: [Hymni cum glossis].
• 2. f.47v, 49r: Laus deo astripotenti.
• 3. f.48r-48v: Sermo sancti augustini ad eremitas fratres de confessione / St. Augustine.
• 4. f.49r-53v: Manuductio sequitur epistolae in eadem.
• 5. f.54r-55r: Carmen hystoriale de gloriose virginis Marie visitatione.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Collation: Paper; i + 55 + i; 1¹⁴ 2-3¹⁶ 4⁹(+2); [1-55]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
• Layout: Work 1 written in 15 long lines; work 2 written in 14 long lines; work 4 written in 18 long lines; work 5 written in 16 long lines.
• Script: Written in various scripts, including secretary cursive, later German cursive, and a Gothic script for section headings and titles.
• Watermark: On manuscript pages: Briquet Tete de Bœuf 14583 (1478), Briquet Tete de Bœuf 15374 (1488). On front and back fly leaves: watermarks similar to Churchill 96 (1799) and Churchill 133 (1755); both are 18th century Dutch watermarks.
• Decoration: 1-line and 2-line initials in red and brown, in main text and in annotations.
• Binding: 18th-century boards.
• Origin: Written in Germany, possibly Leipzig, in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 6-7 (Ms. Latin 208).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 919

Contains:

• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Spurious and doubtful works.
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis.

OCLC:

181084933

Online:

Collation model