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Country of Location:
Country of Location
Switzerland
Location:
Location
St. Gallen
Library / Collection:
Library / Collection
Stiftsbibliothek
Shelfmark:
Shelfmark
Cod. Sang. 891
Manuscript Title:
Manuscript Title
Eberhard de Béthune: Graecismus
Caption:
Caption
Parchment · 152 pp. · 25 x 18.5 cm · 9 August 1386
Language:
Language
Latin
Manuscript Summary:
Manuscript Summary
The colophon of this manuscript names the author and title of the work, Eberhard of Béthune’s Graecismus, as well as the name of the scribe Johannis Czepilwicz and the date that the copy was completed, 9 August 1386 (p. 150). The Graecismus is a long grammatical poem (more than 4,000 verses) written ca. 1212, and its main sources are the grammarians of antiquity such as Donatus and Priscian. The Graecismus circulated widely. The author of this copy on parchment, Johannis Czepilwicz, seems to be the same as a canon of the Augustine house of S. Maria virginis in Arena in Breslau/Wrocław. Except for a large, decorated first initial, lightly damaged (p. 3), the decoration is limited to rubricated letters and a few initials whose form anticipates fifteenth-century letters with cadels. Given the presence of the stamp of the abbot Diethelm Blarer (p. 25), the manuscript was at the Abbey Library since 1553-1564 at the latest. The manuscript has a limp parchment binding with a spine reinforced in leather. (rou)
Standard description:
Standard description
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 312.
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Additional description
Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550, Bd. III: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken St. Gallen-Zürich, bearbeitet von Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Rudolf Gamper und Marlis Stähli, Dietikon-Zürich 1991, S. 74.
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DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
DOI (Digital Object Identifier
10.5076/e-codices-csg-0891 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-csg-0891)
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https://e-codices.unifr.ch./en/list/one/csg/0891
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 891: Eberhard de Béthune: Graecismus (https://e-codices.unifr.ch./en/list/one/csg/0891).
Online Since:
Online Since
12/20/2023
Additional literature:
Additional literature
Additional literature – St. Galler Bibliotheksnetz (SGBN) - Verbundkatalog
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Document Type:
Document Type
Manuscript
Century:
Century
14th century
Dated:
Dated
1386
Decoration:
Decoration
Fully Painted, Initial, Ornamental
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G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Stuttgart 1981, p. 229.

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