Liber dietarium universalium et particularium
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Data entered by students from the course "In the Archives" taught by Prof. Adrienne Williams Boyarin, University of Victoria, 2021.
General Information
Main text and rubrics by one scribe (littera textualis , 1250-1300), who worked in France, possibly in the south
- marginal corrections and additions by main hand
- writing below topline.
Parchment sheet (half a bifolium) that has been trimmed on one of the long sides, probably because it was cut out of a book (see irregular edge on the left side of the initial 'L' for 'Lactuce').
Current Condition
- used as a wrapper around a booklet of modest proportions (the folds and stitch holes on both the left and the right of the letters 'c' in the margin mark the outlines of the back of this unknown volume)
- parchment of mediocre quality (as shown by the hole and the 'transparent' patch in lower margin, which are original)
- 1 col, 36 lines
- ruling visible (plummet); pricking survives in upper margin only
- several reference letters ('c') in margin on recto indicating what initial the illuminator needed to produce.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Initials with penwork flourishing.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
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Content Description
Text similar to several medieval encyclopedic texts, including Rabanus Maurus’ De universo, Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum naturale, Piero Cantalupo’s De flores dietarum, and Isidore’s Etymologies, all of which include similar content on fruits and vegetables.
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History
Purchased for University of Victoria Libraries through Erik Kwakkel in July 2006 from the collection of Herman Mulder (Hombeek, Belgium), who bought it from Antiquariaat Moon Beams, Maastricht, the Netherlands, on May 31, 1994.
Other available descriptions
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin and James Kendrick, University of Victoria, 2021
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