Grecismus Cornutus ... [etc.].

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Anne (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint--Early works to 1800.
• Anne (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint.
• Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).
• Greek language--Grammar--Early works to 1500.
• Greek language--Grammar.
• Humanism--Germany.
• Humanism.
• Germany.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• annotations
• poems
• Finding tabs.
• Hybrid books.
• Manuscripts, Latin.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1962.
• Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

Physical Description:

15 leaves : paper ; 207 x 153 mm bound to 214 x 163 mm

Place of Publication:

[Leipzig or Erfurt?], [1475-1507?]

Language Note:

Latin, with chart of Greek letters and diphthongs (f. 11r).

Summary:

Hybrid collection of school texts, including the Grecismus Cornutus, a treatise in Latin verse on Greek grammar and words similar to the Grecismus attributed to John of Garland, with numerous interlinear notes and perhaps metrical divisions (f. 12r-15v); a table of Greek letters and information on Greek diphthongs (f. 11r); and a heavily annotated printed edition of Rodolphus Agricola's Historia periucunda sanctissime matris Anne (Leipzig: Thanner, 1507; f. 1r-10r), with both interlinear and marginal notes. The title Grecismus Cornutus may refer to the 1st-century classical rhetorician and teacher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from rubric for manuscript work (f. 12r).
• Foliation: Paper, 15; [1-15], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; earlier foliation schemes are visible and show that the contents of this volume were once part of a larger work. All sections have finding tabs from when they were in a larger work. References in this record are to modern foliation.
• Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.
• Decoration: 2-line red initial (f. 12r); initials at beginning of line slashed with red (f. 12r-13r); breaks in interlinear notes marked with red (f. 12r).
• Binding: Modern boards; spine nearly detached.
• Origin: Manuscript contents probably written in Leipzig or Erfurt, in the late 15th century, with the annotations to the printed work after its publication in 1507 (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Historia periucunda sanctissime matris Anne.

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. 43 (Ms. Latin 185).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1621.

Contains:

• Agricola, Rodolphus, 1443?-1485. Historia periucunda sanctissime matris Anne.
• John, of Garland, approximately 1195-approximately 1272. Grecismus.

OCLC:

775121846

Access Restriction:

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