MS. D'Orville 44

Summary Catalogue no.: 16922

Johannes Balbus of Genoa, Catholicon

Incipit: Prosodia quedam pars gramatice

Explicit: et interpretatur festinans uel' consiliator

The first part, ending in the entry for the word 'Hus' and comprising rather more than half the work

Language(s): Latin (with many words in Middle Dutch (Flemish dialect) in the fifth part, see Arens)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment, paper

Extent: ii + 405 leaves. The outer two leaves of each section are of parchment, the rest paper

Dimensions (binding): 12 × 8.75 in.

Hand(s)

In several hands.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Flanders

Provenance and Acquisition

See J. C. Arens, 'Uit oude woordenboeken', Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 98 (1982)

The library of the House of Orange-Nassau: recorded in the 1686 catalogue and included in the 1749 auction at The Hague (see A. D. Renting, A. S. Korteweg, et al., The seventeenth-century Orange-Nassau library: the catalogue compiled by Anthonie Smets in 1686, the 1749 auction catalogue, and other contemporary sources (Utrecht, 1993), p. 146 no. 253); bought by:

Pieter de Hondt (1696–1764), printer, publisher, and bookseller of The Hague.

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Record Sources

Description adapted (February 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897), with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 47

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 48

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-02-28: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges