Plurimo[rum] uerbo[rum] nominum ue[l?] differenti[ae] non inutiles & necessarie

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Title:
Plurimo[rum] uerbo[rum] nominum ue[l?] differenti[ae] non inutiles & necessarie
Title (alt.):
Plurimorum uerborum nominum uel differentiae non inutiles & necessarie
Plurimorum verborum nominum vel differentiae non inutiles & necessarie
Differentiae verborum
Title (uniform):
De differentiis verborum
Description:
A reference work in which individual entries describe the differences between Latin synonyms, homonyms, and other sets of related words. The text, once spuriously attributed to Cicero, comprises two discrete series of entries and closely resembles an edition printed in Cologne by Ulrich Zel circa 1470-1472 (ISTC ic00668000)
Dubious author:
Pseudo-Cicero
Former owner:
Enluminures (Firm)
Date:
[October 1445]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Edge titles
Manuscript waste
humanistic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Latin language--Synonyms and antonyms
Places:
Tuscany (region) > Firenze (province) > Florence
Extent:
93 leaves : paper ; 152 x 105 (96 x 55) mm, bound to 16 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/gx41q467q
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: blank.
2. fol. 1v-33v: (series 1) rubric: Plurimo[rum] uerbo[rum] nominum ue[l?] differenti[ae] non inutiles & necessarie. Text begins with entry "Inter polliceri et promitem hoc interest quod promittimus rogati pollicemur ultro." Ends: "Inter atram[en]tale & atram[en]tarium. Atram[en]tale uas atram[en]tarium homo qui uendit."
3. fol. 33v-88v: (series 2) begins with entry "Inter abundare & sup[er]fluere abundat aqua superfluit humor." Ends: "Inter uesper & uesperum & uespera, ho[c] interest q[uod] uesper & uespere nomina s[un]t tertiae declinationis. uespera aut femininu[s] primae declinationis. uesperum neutri. ite[m] est secunde declinationis."
4. fol. 88v: (colophon) Iste p[er]opportunus libellus est mei [name erased] de sancto petro quem scripsi & miniaui prop[ri]a manu anno Mcccc4v & expleui hora ix mensis octobris dum matutini pulsabant[u]r.
Notes:
Ms codex.
Title from rubric on fol. 1v.
Origin: Copied in October, 1445 by a scribe whose name is erased from the colophon (see contents note). Localizable to Northern Italy based on script, decoration, and watermark evidence.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Title written in a later cursive hand on fol. 1 recto ("Differenae d verb 1445"). Occasional marginal notes and markings.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Chicago, in September, 2020.
Purchase; Les Enluminures, Paris; 2020; 2020.44.1.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Collation: Paper, vertical chainlines with watermarks resembling Gravell dragon 24.1, 26.1, 32.1 ; i-vii¹² viii¹² (-10, 11, 12) ; vertical catchwords, quire signatures in roman numerals. Foliated in modern pencil in upper, outer margins.
Layout: Single column, 19 lines per page, bounding and writing lines scribed in blind. In second section ("Inter abundare") the first entry of each alphabetical sequence marked with a red capital letter in the adjacent margin, with small black guide letters remaining for each, some of which are trimmed away.
Script: Written in a humanist script in black ink with red rubrics, two-line initials in alternating red and blue.
Decoration: In second section, 19 three-line illuminated initials ("I" of "Inter" in first entry for each letter of the alphabet) on divided grounds of green and blue, with silver dots. On fol. 1v, a single four-line illuminated white vine initial "I" on a green, pink, and gold ground with silver dots, framed in blue.
Binding: Bound in modern brown goatskin tooled in blind. Early/contemporary title inscribed on lower edge of text block: "Nominum et verborum differentiae[?]" Parchment manuscript waste sewing guards in inner and outer folds of each quire.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 260559; G. Brugnoli, Studi sulle differentiae verborum (Rome, 1955), 31, 41-43.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018274
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.281
Barcode:
39999092730306