MUM01753
Finding Aid for the Priscian Fragments Collection
(MUM01753)
Finding Aid for the Priscian Fragments Collection
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Descriptive Summary |
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Administrative Information |
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Subject Terms |
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Biographical Note |
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Scope and Content Note |
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User Information |
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Related Material |
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Container List |
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Administrative Information
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded
by Kathryn Michaelis, November 2011.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Alternative Formats
This collection has been digitized and made available online: https://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/medieval
Subject Terms
Formats
Biographical Note
Priscian, a 5th-century Constantinople-based Latin grammarian, composed Institutiones grammaticae, an extensive work explaining Latin grammar through literary works. Livy was a first-century
Roman historian who wrote a comprehensive history of Rome and the Roman people.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains fragments from medieval manuscripts that focus heavily on
the works of Priscian and Livy, as well as on classic Christian texts.
User Information
Preferred Citation
Priscian Fragments Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library,
The
University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The Priscian Fragments Collection is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the
making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under
certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for,
or
later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,”
that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Related Material
Resources at the University of Mississippi
This collection has been digitized and made available online: https://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/medieval
Container List
| Folder 1 | Priscianus Grammatius Caesariensis. Institutes Grammaticarum Cum Glossis Marginalibus Et Interlinearibus Fragmentus SAEC. X Exeuntis, circa 950-1000 |
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| Scope: Seller’s Notes: One leaf on vellum, 4 to (195: 170 mM.), 25 lines to the page, small Caroline script, with traces of folding and writing on verso much rubbed off, an interesting fragment with the quotation from the Greek in Greek uncials |
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| Folder 2 | Fragment of Priscian’s Institutes, circa 950-1000 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Seller’s Notes: Written in a bold Carolingian minuscule, probably in Germany. The right margin has been cut away, with a loss of text. This fragment contains quotations from Vergil, Horace, Lucanus, Lucilius, and Persius. This fragment once belongs to Ernst J. A. Seyfert, an important 18th century grammarian. |
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| Folder 3 | Fragment of Priscian’s Institutes, circa 950-1000 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Seller’s Notes: Written in a small Carolingian script. Contains citations from Livy, Virgil, and Homer, the last being given in Greek uncials. This fragment once belongs to Ernst J. A. Seyfert, an important 18th century grammarian. |
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| Folder 4 | Fragment, circa 1050 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Seller’s Notes: This fragment contains quotations from Lucilius, Persius, Vergil, Plautus, Naevius, Ennius, Livy, and Ovid…Contain part of Priscian’s Institutes, inscribed about A.D. 1050, in the time of William the Conqueror. The handwriting is a fine Carolingian minuscule. The holes in the parchment are original- note that the scribe carefully wrote around them. |
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| Folder 5 | Unidentified fragment, circa 15th century | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Seller’s Notes: Humanis; two leaves | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Folder 6 | Fragment, New Testament with glosses, 1160 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Seller’s Notes: From Switzerland. Vellum. Text in center panel about 18 lines of well written revived Carolingian script, with commentaries and glosses added at a slightly later date. Glosses by Beda, Jerome, and Gregory. Leaves stained, ink brownish tint. |
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| Folder 7 | Fragment, Donatus (Aelius) Ars Grammatica Cum Commento Marginali Incerti Auctoris Fragmenta SAEC. XIII, circa 1250 |
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| Scope: Seller’s Notes: Probably from England. Eight leaves upon vellum, 8 vo. (250:180 mM.), single column with 24 lines to the page, early Gothic script, very broad marginal commentary occasionally running into the textual column in smaller script, red and blue initials with pen-flourishes, red rubrics. |
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| Folder 8 | Fragment, Golden Legend, circa 1400 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Seller’s Notes: From England or Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Folder 9 | Fragment, French Missal, circa 15th century | ||||||||||||||||||
| Folder 10 | Fragment, circa 1450 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Seller’s Notes: Flemish. The illumination on the leaf from the Book of Hours, a devotional text, is heightened by pure gold applied in leaf form. |
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