Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale

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Elbląg, Biblioteka Elbląska im. C. Norwida, Inc.44 (inw. 16)

General Information

Former Shelfmarks Inc.III.13

Original Condition

Page Height 214 mm
Page Width 140 mm
Height of Written Area 155 mm
Width of Written Area 78 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 26 – 27
Line Height 6 mm
Ruling Ruling, prickings

Current Condition

Dimensions 214 x 277 mm; 211 x 280 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Two-line blue and red lombard initials, rubrics

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale
    • Content Description

      Front flyleaf: v. 1176–1227 and v. 1439–1490; back flyleaf: v. 2379–2490

    • front_fly_leaf_r
    • Glosses and Additions Marginal and interlinear glosses
    • Edition Das Doctrinale des Alexander de Villa-Dei, hg. von Dietrich Reichling, Berlin 1893.

History

Remarks

The host volume belonged to the library of Elbląg Gymnasium. The Gymnasium, founded in 1535, was the oldest school of this type on the territory of Prussia and, for that matter, the Kingdom of Poland. The library was established in 1601.

Host Volume

Title Vocabularius iuris utriusque
Date of Origin/Publication [non post VIII. 1475]
Place of Origin/Publication [Basel]: [Mich. Wenssler]
Remarks

The binding ascribed to the bindery of the Brethren of the Common Life in Chełmno

Bibliography

  • P. Pludra-Żuk, Reconstructing Book Collections of Medieval Elbląg, 'Fragmentology' 4:2021, 65.