The 'Institutiones grammaticae' of Priscian, Written in the early 14th century in England
The 'Institutiones grammaticae' of Priscian, books i-xvi (fol. 6), with the rubric for book xvii, beg. 'Ego Flaccus' (fol. 127v), for which see H. Keil's Grammatici Latini, iii. 107, here as colophon, and partly illegible. There are numerous marginal glosses, a few in Greek of the 16-17th-cent.
Fol. 3 is a passage concerning usury from a 13th-cent. Latin theological treatise. Fol. 5 contains brief medical recipes of the 15th cent.
Dates
- Creation: Written in the early 14th century in England
Extent
131 Leaves
Language of Materials
- Latin
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 36
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 645
Custodial History
Fol. 6 has 'liber m[agistri] J. Malberthorpe' in a late 14th-cent. hand. On fol. 3 is 'A[nthony] à W[ood]'. There is a Hebrew inscription on fol. 5v.
Physical Facet
On paper
Dimensions
9 2/5 × 6 4/5 in.
Repository Details
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