Institutiones

Description

Title: Institutiones
Creator: Priscian, active approximately 500-530
Published / Created: [between 830 and 875]
Publication Place: Western France
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on two parchment bifolia (thick) of Priscian, Institutiones, containing the conclusion of Bk. III (chs. 34-44) and part of Bk. IV (chs. 9-20). The text here is accompanied by modest contemporary interlinear glosses, primarily in Latin with a few in Breton
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in elegant caroline minuscule script. Heading on f. 2v in rustic capitals.
Heading touched with red and enclosed in a red rectangle. Initial letters stroked with red or yellow (faded).
Leaves stained and affected by pen trials.
Binding: Unbound; boxed. Two disbound bifolia removed from unidentified binding; originally cut in at five supports and kettle stitches. Discoloration from turn-ins and traces of boss attachments.
Provenance: Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. 4 : 315 x 215 (260 x 168) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 9th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Subject (Topic): Latin language
Grammar
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Priscian, active approximately 500-530
Latin language > Grammar
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 9th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Priscian, Institutiones. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.