Priscianus Caesariensis, Institutiones grammaticae
Lib XIV
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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0301
Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title
Priscianus Caesariensis, <i>Institutiones grammaticae</i>
Shelfmarks
Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0301
Page/Folio Reference
endleaf A-F
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Western Germany
Date of Origin
first half of the 9th century
Script, Hands
Carolina, with Capitalis rustica as display script.
Original Condition
Page Height
305 mm
Page Width
224 – 225 mm
Height of Written Area
245 mm
Width of Written Area
165 mm
Number of Columns
1
Width of Columns
165 mm
Number of Lines
34
Line Height
7 – 8 mm
Ruling
Full blind-point ruling (frame and lines)
More about the Condition
Prickings visible both sides of the written area.
Current Condition
Extent
6 leaves (trimmed and bound)
Dimensions
225 x 175 mm
More about the Current Condition
Leaves have all different sizes. Endleaf A: 217 x 62 mm, endleaf B: 221 x 144 mm, endleaf C: 225 x 172 mm, endleaf D: 224 x 175 mm, endleaf E: 221 x 130 mm, endleaf F: 220 x 130 mm.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Undecorated.
Content
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Content Item
- Persons Priscianus Caesariensis
- Text Language Latin
- Title <i>Institutiones grammaticae</i>
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Content Description
Lib XIV: De praepositione
- Edition Keill (ed.), Grammatici Latini, vol. 3 (Leipzig, 1859), p. 32-35 (fol. D-E), p. 40-43 (fol. C-B)
History
Persons and Institutions
According to ex-libris on endleaf C verso, host volume belonged to St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier (Germany), in the fifteenth century.
Host Volume
Title
Hieronymus Stridonensis, <i>Commentarius in Evangelium Matthaei</i>
Date of Origin/Publication
second half 9th century
Place of Origin/Publication
Northern France or Southern Low Countries
Shelfmark
Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0301
Page/Folio Reference:
fol. 1-91
Persons
Hieronymus Stridonensis (author)
Remarks
Current binding (pigskin leather over wooden boards) possibly stems from the 14th century. Fragments from other, unidentified, Carolingian manuscripts are used as quire guards.
Bibliography
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Bischoff, Bernhard, and Birgit Ebersperger, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschland und der Schweiz, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998). Volume 1, p. 287.
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Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 129.