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Dictionary of grammatical forms and definitions of theological, religious, and secular terms, arranged alphabetically; it includes Latinized Hebrew words and gives equivalents in Old French in various instances.
Support: parchment; Extent: 264 leaves : 275 x 200 (183 x 130) mm. bound to 291 x 204 mm; Foliation: Parchment, 264; [1-264]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Written in 2 columns of 32-36 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Written in a Gothic script, with marginal glosses in a similar hand.
Rubricated throughout, with alternating red and blue 2-line initials with contrasting red or blue ornamentation at the beginning of each entry; 4-line, 5-line, and 6-line puzzle initials with penwork ornamentation at the beginning of each section (for example, f. 21r, 26r, 51r); 4-line illuminated initial in gold, blue, and pink (f. 1r). Some marginal glosses decorated with yellow and occasional marginal drawings of faces (f. 7r, 52r).
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Ms. codex.
Title from explicit (f. 263r).
Explicit: Expliciunt expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti. Deo gratias...hic liber est Beatae Mariae Regalis Montis. Qui titulum delevit vel ab ecclesia furtive alienavit hunc librum sit a deo anathema maranata (f. 263r).
Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
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.
Royaumont, France
Written in Royaumont, France at the Monastery of St. Mary, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch).
French 18th-century green morocco, spine nearly detached.
Latin and Old French
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4555).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London) in a sale of part of the Phillipps collection, 19-23 May 1913, lot 666 (catalog clipping pasted inside front cover).
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.
Royaumont, France
Written in Royaumont, France at the Monastery of St. Mary, ca. 1350 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Latin and Old French
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps
Sold at auction at Sotheby's
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.
Dictionary of grammatical forms and definitions of theological, religious, and secular terms, arranged alphabetically; it includes Latinized Hebrew words and gives equivalents in Old French in various instances.
Ms. codex.
Title from explicit (f. 263r).
Explicit: Expliciunt expositiones difficiliorum vocabulorum de bibliotheca per ordinem alphabeti. Deo gratias...hic liber est Beatae Mariae Regalis Montis. Qui titulum delevit vel ab ecclesia furtive alienavit hunc librum sit a deo anathema maranata (f. 263r).
Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
Written in a Gothic script, with marginal glosses in a similar hand.
Rubricated throughout, with alternating red and blue 2-line initials with contrasting red or blue ornamentation at the beginning of each entry; 4-line, 5-line, and 6-line puzzle initials with penwork ornamentation at the beginning of each section (for example, f. 21r, 26r, 51r); 4-line illuminated initial in gold, blue, and pink (f. 1r). Some marginal glosses decorated with yellow and occasional marginal drawings of faces (f. 7r, 52r).
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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