Barthelomeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum

Type: Manuscript

Date: 13th Century

Setting: University

Produced By/For: Barthelomeus Anglicus

Contents: De Proprietatibus Rerum

Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.1

Location: Shelf 02/C/01 (Acc. 1984-061)

Description by Kelly Moog, July 2004

Barthelomeus Anglicus' De Proprietatibus Rerum

Title: De Proprietatibus Rerum (On the Properties of Things)

Author: Bartholomeus Anglicus

Location: University of Victoria Special Collections, Medieval Studies Collection, SC070, Acc. 1984-061

Language: Latin

Binding: 19th Century, red-brown leather; abbreviated title (Liber Propriet manuscript) printed on upper spine

Typeface: handwritten, gothic script, on vellum with a small hand

Size: binding 15.5 x 21.5 cm; pages 14.5 x 20.5 cm

Provenance: 13th Century (originally French, but prior to 19th century, unknown); Charles W. G.Howard; Alan G. Thomas; M. R. Andrew; University of Victoria (link)

See also: British Columbia’s First Medieval Manuscript by A. S. G. Edwards (PDF)

Transcription

Transcription* of the entries for vipera, tinea, and vermis (fol. 85r-v) were completed by Dylan Kerfoot, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), December 2016, available here.

Transcription* of MS.Lat.1's medieval index was completed by Drew Beard, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), December 2016, available here.

* Transcription conventions follow Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Cornell UP, 2007), pp. 75-77.

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