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Latin-German dictionary with informal notes on grammar and writing, written for the purpose of helping German readers better understand the Bible and other texts in Latin. Dictionary entries are organized alphabetically. Alphabetized finding tabs with red lettering located at the beginning of each letter category in the dictionary (one broken off). An introductory paragraph in Latin in the dictionary (f. 11r) refers to and criticizes the earlier work of Uguccione da Pisa and the Vocabularius breviloquus of Johann Reuchlin.
Support: paper; Extent: 238 leaves : 210 x 145 (158 x 91) mm. bound to 212 x 147 mm; Foliation: Paper, ii +238 + iv; [1-238]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Written in 3 columns of about 30 lines; text block outlined in ink.
Written in a German cursive, with the decorative heading on f. 11r in a Gothic book hand; unidentified text on the pastedowns in Gothic book hand and secretary scripts.
2-line and 3-line red initials throughout; 3-line to 7-line initials to introduce each new letter category, sometimes with geometric or floral patterns, in red (except, Q on f. 169r, in black); decorated initial E in red, yellow, and green, with ears of wheat, flowers, and leaves (f. 11r); manicules with decorated sleeves (f. 25v, 28v, 29r, 35v).
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.
Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from incipit of predominant work (f. 11r); spine title Vocabularius; the work had numerous printed editions in the 15th century under the title Vocabularius ex quo.
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.
Aachen
Written in Aachen, Germany in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch), with remains of metal clasp on upper and lower covers; unidentified text on pastedowns inside upper and lower covers.
Latin and Low German
Sold in the collection of Walter Sneyd at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 37.
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1960.
Aachen
Written in Aachen, Germany in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Latin and Low German
Sold in the collection of Walter Sneyd at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 37.
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff
Latin-German dictionary with informal notes on grammar and writing, written for the purpose of helping German readers better understand the Bible and other texts in Latin. Dictionary entries are organized alphabetically. Alphabetized finding tabs with red lettering located at the beginning of each letter category in the dictionary (one broken off). An introductory paragraph in Latin in the dictionary (f. 11r) refers to and criticizes the earlier work of Uguccione da Pisa and the Vocabularius breviloquus of Johann Reuchlin.
Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from incipit of predominant work (f. 11r); spine title Vocabularius; the work had numerous printed editions in the 15th century under the title Vocabularius ex quo.
Written in a German cursive, with the decorative heading on f. 11r in a Gothic book hand; unidentified text on the pastedowns in Gothic book hand and secretary scripts.
2-line and 3-line red initials throughout; 3-line to 7-line initials to introduce each new letter category, sometimes with geometric or floral patterns, in red (except, Q on f. 169r, in black); decorated initial E in red, yellow, and green, with ears of wheat, flowers, and leaves (f. 11r); manicules with decorated sleeves (f. 25v, 28v, 29r, 35v).
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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