Scholia ex Georgicorum P. Vergilii carminibus undique excerpta.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Virgil. Georgica.

Virgil.

Virgil--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Latin literature--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.

Latin literature.

Latin literature--Study and teaching.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard Rosenthal (New York), 1967.

Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1967.

Physical Description:

42 leaves : paper ; 155 x 102 mm bound to 160 x 108 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [1500-1550?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of terms occurring in the Georgics, with accompanying notes, designed for use in a school. Presumably the notes were used in connection with lectures on Vergil's Georgics. Some words in the index are connected with page numbers. Miscellaneous notes include two lines of poetry, a schematic characterization of the word mulier, and pen trials with the name Jacobus.

Contents:

1. p.1-63: Scholia ex Georgicorum P. Vergilii carminibus undique excerpta.

2. p.64-78: Index litterarum.

3. p.79-83: [Miscellaneous notes]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from heading (p. 1).

Collation: Paper, i + 42 + i; 1⁴ 2⁶ 3-7⁴ 8⁸ 9⁴; 1-63, [64-84]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corner or upper center.

Layout: Index (p. 64-78) written in 2 columns in red ink.

Script: Written in a German cursive script.

Watermark: Briquet Ours 12272 (1524-6) and Tête de Bœuf 15268 (1542-3).

Binding: Modern boards.

Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the 16th 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. 15 (Ms. Latin 235).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1158

OCLC:

225864661