Priscian — 14th century, early; English
MS. Barlow 36
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Priscian — 14th century, early; English
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 36
Date
14th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691
Provenance
Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691
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Title
The 'Institutiones grammaticae' of Priscian
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 36
Summary
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.
Date
Written in the early 14th century in England
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
131 Leaves
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.
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Collection contents
The 'Institutiones grammaticae' of Priscian
