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
