Summary:
Manuscript 253 dates back to the first half of the fourteenth
century. It was part of Ter Doest Abbey. The document contains the
unfinished Alphabetum by Peter of Capua (d. 1214). The Alphabetum
is a collection of his distinctiones made up alphabetically as a
dictionary. The text is written in a littera textualis. Colours are
used for the decorations and the page layout. The colours red and
blue are used alternately for the paragraphs; alternately for the
titles; and the colour red for each meaning, modus and
interpretation of a word. The first word of a new classification
are alternately red and blue with the letters stretched out or with
filigree decoration. The copyist has added in references to similar
distinctiones for different words, using black ink. [Summary by
Sarah Vanroye] Title:
Alphabetum in arte sermocinandi magistri Petri Cardinalis [titel
fenestra] Note:
Inc. (f. 1r): 'Incipit prologus in opus subsequens. Dilectis
plurimum et diligendis semper in uisceribus Ihesu Christi uenerando
clero Romano'; (f. 1v): 'Responsio magistri Petri facta scolaribus
in ipsis scolis insistentibus pro presenti opere inchoando'; (f.
2r): 'Incipit Alphabetum in arte sermocinandi a magistro Petro in
scolis inchoatum et postmodum ab eodem sancte Romane ecclesie
cardinali licet indigno correpto principio consumatum. Alpha
dupliciter in bono'; expl. (f. 180v): 'Squamen ... ut Ihesum dolo
tenerent et occiderent' Topic general subdivision:
Godsdienst Material:
Perkament Extent:
i + 180 ff. + i Dimensions:
37 x 23 cm Decoration and binding:
lombarden
gedecoreerde initialen Script:
gotische textualisgotische cursiva recentior
glossen in cursiva recentior Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.) (?)
