Content:
With many scribal explanations in Low German. Note:
Date and script: Based on colophon: (f. 279r) "Et Finitus et
completus est Liber iste per me hinricum de hervordia. Anno etc.
Ixvi".
Layout: Spaces provided for miniatures.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary (original). - Leather
(brown, blind-tooled) over wooden boards. Title scratched in front
covering: "Vocabularius". Two clasp fastenings (closing back to
front, renewed except for strap plates). Metal corner pieces (2x2,
renewed), traces of bosses (2x5). - Bookblock resewn, spine
renewed.
Textual: Incipit preface: "a a a domine nescio loqui in quia puer
ego sum, Iheremie primo, licet illud...". - Incipit text: "Aleph
prima littera hebreorum...". - Scribal explanations, such as:
"Abies "= "eyn danne" (2r); "Acredula" = "eyn nachtegale" (3v).
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Molhuysen 1912):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3151098
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Also described by BNM and MMDC. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
