Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 535
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- MS 535
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- 1354
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 535: Iohannes de Mera, Brachylogus
- Iohannes de Mera, Brachylogus || Dictionary (Brachylogus) beginning imperfectly in Acus
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- Johannes de Mera (13..?-13..?)
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- Iohannes de Mera
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Summary: CCCC MS 535 is a German manuscript which contains a dictionary called Brachylogus by the Dutch lexicographer, Johannes de Mera (fl. c. 1350). The dating of this manuscript is to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. At the end of the text it is noted that the Brachylogus was completed in 1354 in Mechelen. The book is decorated with many fine large coloured ornamental initials. This volume is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by either Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many of these books.
Contents :
1r-207v - Iohannes de Mera, Brachylogus || Dictionary (Brachylogus) beginning imperfectly in Acus
incipit: (1r) transfertur ad significandum instrumentum exornandi capillos
Note: At the beginning of each letter is a handsome coloured initial
Note: Ends f. 176r (Zorobabel)
explicit: (176r) In babilone nanque ortus erat ubi gentis iudee fuerat dominator
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Note: (176r) M. semel. l. ter c. quater i. que notant bene per seAnnorum domini numerum quando cito finiGregorii festo datus est liber hic memor estoQui legis optatus locus est andwerpia gratusIn quo fiebat. et factor mente petebatProsit ut ad famen cunctis liber et iuuet amen.Quatuor addantur numero quibus amplificanturAnni prefato predicti tempore gratoEgidii festo devote riteque gestoA multis prima septembris luce sub ymaMente quod hinc noscas lector si noscere poscasQuando machlinie bene que valeat sine fineHic liber est lectus et finitus quasi rectusBrachilogus dictus de me factore relictusStricta lectura que primo sat est valituraMulto pro parte qui paucum pollet in arteGramatica curas studio sibi si valiturasDet tabulam noscat positam retro (?) qui cito poscat.Queque sonant mire de quis veniunt reperireInterius posita mox multa valent fore scitaCum tabula facile quod (?) dogma sciens puerileEx hac perpendat ubi dissona querere tendatO lector pro me pro teque bonum pie promeAd dominum famen nos ambos quod iuuet amen
Note: (176r) Finivi librum scripsi sine manibus ipsumGloria laus et honor tibi sit rex cryste redemptor
Note: (176v) blank
Note: (177r) List of words. Abrotonum to Zozimus
Note: (207v) At the end
Note: (207v) (M) Semel l. ter. C., etc.
Note: (207v) This half-line is in different ink but the same hand
Note: (207v) Annorum numerum domini signant tibi verumBrachilogi tabulam dum finivi mychaelisProfesto maculam deus abstrahe iungeque celisMe quod sanctorum capiam mihi munera quorumVita sit eterna vivit quasi rex ubi vernaSi quid lectores vobis dat commoditatisHic liber. ad mores vergatis vos bonitatisCriminis et si quid in eo sit quod satis obsitUrbane lima rectetur mente sub ymaFacto discretus sit quivis det quoque famenGratum ne spretus fiat celestibus amen
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