Johannes Balbus, Catholicon Electronic version according to TEI P5.1 Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments

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 Odense Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA K 256 Johannes Balbus, Catholicon Fourteenth Century Denmark? Back cover v Latin Catholicon Johannes Balbus' grammatical treatise Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon (completed 1286, Catholicon for short) is made up of five parts. The fragment is from the fifth part, an alphabetical dictionary, and contains the following lemmata: Treuga -um, Tria, Triambos, Triangulus-i, Triarius -ria -rium, Trias -adis, Tria-?, Tribacus -ci, Tribula -le, Tribulis -lis -le, Tribulo -las, Tribulus -li, Tribunal -nalis, Tribunalis -lis -le, Tribuncius -cia -cium, Tribunus m, Tribunusplebis, Tribus-bus-bui, Tributarius -ria -rium, Tributim, Tributum -ti. Editio princeps: GW 03182 Balbus, Johannes: Catholicon. Mainz: [Printer of the Catholicon (GW 3182) (Johann Gutenberg?)], 1460. 2° Parchment One leaf2543430 x 250 mm

Somewhat stained and rubbed off, particularly the part covering the host volume's spine, but still legible.

The fragment appears to be from a folio manuscript. The parchment is light and thin so that one can see the text on the other page (glued to the boards of the host volume) shine through.

 Visible drypoint ruling for two columns á fifty lines. On the left side of each column, two vertical lines create a separate bar for the initials of each lemma.

Gothic book script, textualis libraria.

 Unadorned except for red underlining of each lemma and red markings in lemma initials. None It likely that Meursius had the book bound, but unclear where he sourced the parchment from. At the time of printing, he was professor at Sorø Akademi, and perhaps had access to the remains of Sorø's monastic library. Perhaps written in or for a Danish dominican monastery. Alternatively for the Cistercians at Sorø. The title page of the host volume contains a handwritten dedication by the editor, Johannes Meursius, to doctor and Aarhus cathedral prelate Mathias Jacobæus: Viro clarissimo, Domino Mathiae Jacobaeo, Medico Regio, et Praelato Arhúsiensi, affectús testandi ergo mittebam, Joannes Meúrsiús. It is repeated on the title page of the second title of the sammelband. The sammelband was donated to Fyens Stiftsbibliothek in 1813, the year the library was founded, by printer and bookseller Søren Hempel. A note on the inside of the front cover reads: Skænket Fyens Stiftsbibliotek af Hr. S. Hempel i Odense. 1813. Description by: Holck, Jakob Povl, ‘Et Stykke Af En Middelalderlig Ordbog’. In Dansk Senmiddelalder, Reformationstid Og Renæssance: Spiritualitet, Materialitet Og Mennesker, 81–100. Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2023. , 81-100 , 81-100 Holck, Jakob Povl. Den Gamle Verdens Magi: Bogsamlingen Fra Herlufsholm På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, 2015.