Basis grammatice.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Tardif, Guillaume, 1440-

Contributor:

Marriette, Charles, 15th century, former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Latin language--Grammar.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of the author to his pupil Charles Marriette (f. 20v).

Appears in E. K. Schreiber's cat. 21 (1989), no. 94.

Sold by Librairie Thomas-Scheler (Paris), catalog titled Un choix (Apr. 1998), no. 3, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Physical Description:

20 leaves : parchment ; 198 x 138 (138 x 75) mm bound to 205 x 148 mm

Production:

[Paris, France], 1470.

Language Note:

Latin, with some French translations in the first conjugation table (f. 8r-9r).

Summary:

Summary of Latin grammar arranged in 8 sections for 8 parts of speech, followed by conjugation tables for the 4 conjugations and a commentary on the summary, with the lemmata from the earlier part in red.

Contents:

1. f.1r-1v: Guillermus Tardivus Aniciensis Karolo Mariete Parisiensi litterarum amorem optat [dedicatory epistle]

2. f.2r-7v: [Summary of Latin grammar]

3. f.8r-10v: [Conjugation tables]

4. f.11r-20v: [Commentary on the summary]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from rubric (f. 1v).

Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century paper) + 20 + i (19th-century paper); 1-2¹⁰; [1-20], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 36 long lines; frame-ruled in red lead; double vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines.

Script: Written in a humanistic script by Guillaume Tardif (signature, f. 20v).

Decoration: 2 4-line initials, 1 filled with pink and a coat of arms on a blue background (f. 1r), 1 filled with blue on a pink background (f. 11r); 2- to 3-line initials in gold, alternating between filled with pink on a blue background and filled with blue on a pink background, throughout; paragraph marks in gold with the same alternation of infill and background throughout; rubrication in red.

Binding: 19th-century quarter leather with shagreen covers; marbled endpapers.

Origin: Written in Paris in 1470 (f. 1v).

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 140-141 (LJS 242).

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 46, 214-15 (cat. 62).

Beltran, Evencio. "Un manuscrit autographe de la Grammatice basis de Guillaume Tardif." In Bibliothêque d'humanisme et Renaissance 61 (1999), no. 2, 495-508.

Cited as:

LJS 242.

OCLC:

772645214

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

Collation model