MS. Add. A. 11

Summary Catalogue no.: 28746

Gasparino Barzizza, De orthographia

Incipit: (preface) Quoniam recta scriptura

Incipit: (text) Ad oppositionem cum quibusdam

Cf. G. L. Bursill-Hall, A census of medieval Latin grammatical manuscripts (1981), p. 180 (188.158)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i+93 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 142 mm.

Dimensions (written): 140 × 85–90 mm.

Layout

34 lines, 1 col.

Hand(s)

'Hoc opus scriptum fuit per me Benedictum de gramignis notarium. Anno domini currente Millesimo quadringintessimo quadragessimo tertio'.

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Binding

Green whittawed half-leather over boards (s. xv), with bosses, rebacked.

History

Origin: Italy ; 1443

Provenance and Acquisition

'Donum R. P. D. Honorati episcopi Vrbanię' (1636–83), fol. 1.

Purchased for £2 18s at Sotheby's on 20-21 June 1860, lot 103, along with eight other manuscripts 'formerly in the archives of two princely Roman families'

Record Sources

Adapted (2017) with corrections (identification of text) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 1, and the Summary Catalogue (1905).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 503

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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