Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VGQ 7

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  • VGQ 7
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Date
  • ff. 1-2: German regions, 9th century, third quarter ; ff. 3-42: German regions, northwestern part ; Middle or Lower Rhine region, 9th century, second quarter
Language
  • Ancient Greek
  • Latin
Title
    • Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana (Greek and Latin), and other text(s), VGQ 7
    • Interpretamenta Pseudodositheana
    • Carmen nauticum
    • Etymologiae
    • Epistula ad Antiochum regem
    • Epistola ad Antiochum regem
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Description
  • Form:
    1 volume, 42 leaves ; 255x220 mm
    Content:
    Contains: (f. 1r) Medical recipe in Latin. - (f. 1v) Pen trials. - (f. 2r) Decretales / Innocent II. Excerpt (12th century); owner inscription. - (f. 2v) Two Latin glosses; Hebrew numerals transcribed in Latin. - (f. 3r-39r) Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana. - (ff. 39r, 39v-40v) Medical recepies and treatises - (f. 40r) Greek glosses, with interpretations in Latin. - (ff. 40v-41r) Carmen nautarum. - (ff. 41r-42r) Epistula ad Antiochum regem / Hippocrates. Latin translation. - (ff. 42r-v) Eymologiae / Isidore of Seville. Excerpts in Greek and Latin. - Also contains two Old German glosses on ff. 12v, 40r.
    Note:
    Origin and date: According to Bischoff 2004 (based on script): (ff. 1-2): "Deutschland, IX. Jh., ca. 3. Viertel". - (ff.3-39): "Wohl etwa Mittel- oder Niederrhein, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Viertel". - Texts added on ff. 40r-42r slightly later than the Hermeneumata.
    Script: Original text of ff. 1-2 erased; other texts added by various hands (9th and 12th centuries).
    Binding: Post-medieval binding (17th century). - Parchment over pasteboard. Closing ties (2x2, leather). - Traces of former chain attachment (f. 1).
    Textual: (ff. 3r-39r) Instructional manual for learning Latin (by Greek-speakers) or Greek (for Latin-speakers), probably composed around the 3th century AD.
    Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
    Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
    Description (De Meyier 1955): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:111485
    Also described by Handschriftencensus and Pinakes.
    Part of the library of Isaac Vossius, which was bought from his heirs in 1690.
    Part of:
    Vossius, I. (1618-1689)
    Ownership:
    Owned by: Johannes Camerarius (cf. Lehmann 1938). - Christian Rumph ("Ex Bibliotheca Christiani Rumpfii Medici", f. 2r). - Isaac Vossius.
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    9th century
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