MS. Add. A. 11
Summary Catalogue no.: 28746
Contents
, 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
Provenance and Acquisition
'Donum R. P. D. Honorati episcopi Vrbanię' (1636–83), fol. 1.
Sotheby's, 20–21 June 1860, lot. 111; bought.
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).
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.