Grammatical treatise

Description

Title: Grammatical treatise
Published / Created: [1422, 1423 or 1424]
Publication Place: Germany,
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on paper of 1) Collecta super grammatica, final part. 2) Full declension of the degrees of comparison of “doctus”, “fortis”, “sapiens” and “bonus”. 3) Antiphon for Purification, with musical notation..
Description: Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper over pasteboard.
From the library of John Milton Berdan, Yale 1896. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Red heightening of the majuscules and red decoration of the horizontal lines separating the various sections of the text of art. 1, art.1 up to f. 4v; reserved initials (not executed) in the same art.; no decoration in the second part of art. 1 and in artt. 2 and 3.
Script: Three hands: art. 1 is copied by the scribe Conrad Payel in a highly abbreviated Gothica Cursiva Currens; art. 2 is in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 3 in the same type of script; "Hufnagel" musical notation.
The fragments are badly cropped, soiled and damaged and important text parts are lost; reading is very difficult. Rectangular excisions at the upper or at the lower edge of the leaves.
Extent: ff. 8 : paper ; ca. 200 x ca. 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: fragments (AAT)
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts
Treaties
Material: paper
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Latin language--Grammar
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Grammatical Treatise. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9873968
Object ID (OID): 10965984
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS822.pdf