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Mamotrectus siue primicereus

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Description: Manual for the clergy, containing etymological and grammatical explanations of difficult words in the Bible and the liturgical hours, arranged in the order of the Bible and the church year.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [10 November 1470]
Call number: 103864
Creator: Marchesinus, Johannes(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Rosenbach, June 1925. A few ms. annotations, some in German, indicating ownership by a monastery in southern Germany.
Dimensions: 32 cm (folio)

Mammotrectus super Bibliam

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Manual for the clergy, containing etymological and grammatical explanations of difficult words in the Bible and the liturgical hours, arranged in the order of the Bible and the church year

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Incipit Casselina siue compendiolum sacre scripture de breuibus [et] longis absq[ue] declaratione sed pouitur virgula super syllabam producendam

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Vocabulary list of some 10,000 words from the Bible, the Breviary, the Missal, and the Legend of St. Francis, as well as a list of general words, indicating with printed accents the proper stress and pronunciation of each word.

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Bible : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-384v. Bible. Latin. f. 1, 14 mnemonic verses on the books of the Bible; f. 1v, blank; ff. 2-284, Old Testament; ff. 284-351, New Testament; ff. 352-382, Interpretations of Hebrew Names; ff. 382v-383, blank; ff. 383v384v, pentrials, names and proverbs. In addition, on ff. 308-315 (John), notes in the margins, s. XV(?), with readings for Sundays for the liturgical year.

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Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-238 v [Book of Hours]: ff. 2-13v: Calendar in red and black; ff. 14-102 [f. 14, blank]: Office of the Virgin, use of Rome; ff. 102v-104v, ruled, but blank; ff. 105-166v: [f. 105, blank], Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 148v-166v: liturgical variations for All Souls and for a funeral; f. 167, ruled, but blank; f. 167v: Short Hours of the Cross (remainder misbound and is on ff. 232-236v); ff. 168-198 [f. 168, blank]: Long Hours of the Passion; f. 198v, ruled, but blank; ff. 199-229: [f. 199, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 229v-231v: ruled, but blank; ff. 232-236v: Short Hours of the Cross, misbound; [ff. 237-238v, ruled but blank].

mssHM 1132

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-120v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: calendar in red and black, including the feasts of Basilius (14 June), Remigius and Bavo (1 October) and Donatianus (14 October); ff. 13-14: prayers (Oracio de sancta veronica, Salve sancta facies nostri redemptoris . . . [RH 18189]; Oracio, Deus qui nobis signatis lumen vultus tui . . . [HE, 174-75]); ff. 14v-15 blank; ff. 15v-23: mass of the Virgin; ff. 23v-24 blank; ff. 24-89: Incipit officium beate marie secundum usum romanum (weekly variations of psalms follow matins; suffrages of All Saints and prayer for peace follow hours from lauds to compline; f. 88: Salve Regina); f. 89v blank; ff. 90-99: variations on the office for the Virgin for the liturgical year; f. 99v blank; ff. 100-119v: penitential psalms and litany including Eleazar among the monks; f. 120 blank; ff. 120v-123v: Devota oracio de sancta maria, Obsecro te. f. 120v blank.

mssHM 25773

Bible : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-596v; ff. 597-598v blank. [Bible] Latin. ff. 1-439v, Old Testament; ff. 439v-548v, New Testament; ff. 548v-591, Interpretations of Hebrew Names; ff. 591-595v [added, s. XIII], list of difficult names in the bible; f. 596v [added, s. XV], list of books of the bible with the number of chapters in each. In the usual order for thirteenth century French bibles and with the common set of 64 prologues (reversing the order of Stegmüller 500 and 507), as described by Ker, MMBL 1:96-97 regarding London, Lambeth Palace, MS 1364.

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Mamotrectus siue primicereus

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