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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.
Support: parchment; Extent: 20 leaves : 198 x 138 (138 x 75) mm bound to 205 x 148 mm; Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century paper) + 20 + i (19th-century paper); 1-2¹⁰; [1-20], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 36 long lines; frame-ruled in red lead; double vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines.
Written in a humanistic script by Guillaume Tardif (signature, f. 20v).
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.
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Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1v).
4. f.11r-20v: [Commentary on the summary]
3. f.8r-10v: [Conjugation tables]
2. f.2r-7v: [Summary of Latin grammar]
1. f.1r-1v: Guillermus Tardivus Aniciensis Karolo Mariete Parisiensi litterarum amorem optat [dedicatory epistle]
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Paris, France
Written in Paris in 1470 (f. 1v).
19th-century quarter leather with shagreen covers; marbled endpapers.
Latin, with some French translations in the first conjugation table (f. 8r-9r)
Appears in E. K. Schreiber's cat. 21 (1989), no. 94.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Librairie Thomas-Scheler (Paris), catalog titled Un choix (Apr. 1998), no. 3, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of the author to his pupil Charles Marriette (f. 20v).
Paris, France
Written in Paris in 1470 (f. 1v).
Latin, with some French translations in the first conjugation table (f. 8r-9r)
Appears in E. K. Schreiber's cat. 21
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Librairie Thomas-Scheler
Gift of the author to his pupil Charles Marriette
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.
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1v).
4. f.11r-20v: [Commentary on the summary]
3. f.8r-10v: [Conjugation tables]
2. f.2r-7v: [Summary of Latin grammar]
1. f.1r-1v: Guillermus Tardivus Aniciensis Karolo Mariete Parisiensi litterarum amorem optat [dedicatory epistle]
Written in a humanistic script by Guillaume Tardif (signature, f. 20v).
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.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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