London. British Library, Add MS 37518

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  • British Library, Add MS 37518
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Lexicon Tironianum
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Description
  • This 9th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, as is indicated by the style of its decorated initials (e.g. see Nordenfalk, ‘Les miniatures’ (1965), p. 261 (no. 433)). However, it appears to have been in England by the late 15th or early 16th century. Contents: ff. 1r-115v: Lexicon Tironianum (Lexicon of Tironian Notes). The manuscript contains a number of additions:ff. 116r-116v: containing prayers from the Gelasian Sacramentary, written in a 7th-century script. f. 117r: Gospel pericopes (John 14.7-14 and Luke 24.49-53), written in a 8th- or early 9th-century script. f. 117v: Mark 16.15-24, written in an early 6th-century script. Decoration: 2 large full-page initials in black ink with foliate motifs, knotwork and zoomorphic figures (ff. 1r, 51r); 2 half-page in black ink with foliate motifs, knotwork and zoomorphic figures (ff. 63r, 91v); 28 medium and small Tironian initials decorated with pen-work in black ink, some with foliate motifs, knotwork and zoomorphic figures (ff. 5v, 8v, 9r, 9v, 14r, 18r, 22v, 27r, 33r, 34v, 39r, 39v, 40v, 41r, 46r, 48v, 60v, 67v, 74v, 77v, 80v, 81v, 87r, 96v, 101v, 104v, 109v, 114r). Display script (decorated initials from the Roman alphabet) at the Tironian initials. Tironian notes and Latin script highlighted with red on f. 50v.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • Paris (France)
    Original form
    • Paris, France
    Other form
    • Paris
    • Paris (France)
    • France (Paris)
    • Paris ( ?) : cf. Hans-Collas ― Schandel, p. 326
    • Paris ( ?).
    • France, Paris (?)
    • Lieu de copie : Paris
    • France, Paris ( ?)
    • France (Paris ?)
    • France, Paris
    • France (Paris )
    • Paris (?)
    • France : Paris?
    • Chaillot
    • France (Paris).
    • Paris,
    • Paris ( ?)
    • Paris (?) (Hervieux éd. 1970, t. III, p. 176).
    • Paris (?) : le ms. a été vraisemblablement copié sur le ms. BnF, Latin 347 C exécuté à Paris
    • Paris (1378-1380)
    • France (Paris ?),
    • France (Paris?)
    • Paris.
    • Paris (vers 1375)
    • Paris ( ?), peut-être avec influence méridionale
    • Paris (Fichier Avril)
    • France, Paris ?
    • France [Paris ?]
    • Nord de la France, Paris (?)
    • Paris ?
    • Paris?
    • Paris Region
    • París
    • Parijs
    • Paris (région)
    • Paris (regió)
    • Paris (región)
    • [Paris]
    • Paris (parts A and B)
    • Paris, for the Archdiocese of Bamberg
    • P. Mauritius Enk, OSB St. Gall in Paris
    • Paris, Jesuit Collège de Clermont
    • Paris, Collège des Cholets
    • Paris, Jesuit College de Clermont
    • Paris, Collège de Navarre
    • Paris Jesuit College de Clermont
    • Paris, Jesuit College de Cleremont
    • Paris (FR)
    • [Paris (FR)]
    • Paris (II)
    • [Paris,
    • [Paris],
    • [Paris
    • [Parijs]
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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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