Manuscript on parchment and paper, composed in 3 parts, of Notes on grammar, syntax, logic, mathematics, and canon law. With excerpts of moral treatises and proverbs. Parts I and II, ca. 1300 on parchment. Part III, between 1300 and 1350 on paper
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-8r): Written in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior (Anglicana) mainly by two hands. Part II (ff. 9r-43v): Two hands, both writing Anglicana. Part III (ff. 44r-78v): Several hands, all writing Anglicana Currens and highly abbreviated: the first (ff. 44r-55v) is marked by lengthened and bold or decorated ascenders on the top line., Part II: Red paragraph marks; red plain 2-line initials. Part III: Red paragraph marks in some sections. Red plain 2-line initials (3-line initial f. 44r), some with flourishing, and guide-letters in artt. 5-8. Logical diagrams on ff. 44v and 47r. Hand A has curious line-fillers and his explicits are written in a dotted rectangular frame., and Binding: Early limp vellum, with a bone button in the middle of the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Medieval, Grammar, Comparative and general, Latin language, Grammar, Logic, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
"Izvlecheno iz X t. Izvi︠e︡stīĭ Istoriko-filologicheskago instituta kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ Bezborodko v Ni︠e︡zhini︠e︡.", Has additional title-page with date: 1886., and Bibliography: p. [5]
BEIN If M81 r516: Inscription: Su[m] Tunstalli. From the libraries of Thomas Godwyn, J. Hilton, John Loveday, and the Loveday family from 1736-1940. Contemporary blindstamped Flemish binding, clasps wanting. No.4 of 7 works bound together., The earliest appearance of Hebrew type in France., Signatures: A-B⁴ C⁶ D-Y⁴., Imprint from colophon., Colophon: Operoso huic opusculo extremam imposuit manum Egidius Gourmontius integerrimus, ac fidelissimus, primus duce Francisco Tissardo Ambac[a]eo, gr[a]ecarum, et hebraearum litterarum Parrhisijs Impressor. Anno a natiuitate domini M.CCCCCVIII. Quarto Calen. Februa., Printer's device on p. [1]., and Described in Brunet, Manuel du libraire, 5e éd., t.5, col.866-867.