Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 148
Notes:
See Zingerle "Uebersicht," p. 4, no. 14. Former shelfmark: 1r (18c) II, 66. Typed Catalogue B IV 4. Numbered in a recent hand.
Provenance:
Ownership notes on fol. 1r (on a piece of paper pasted over excised ownership mark): Ad Bibliothecam Monasterii Montis Sancti Georgii 1659; and on fol. 119v Ad Bibliothecam Monasterii Montis Sancti Georgii 1659.
Physical Issues:
Octavo
Reproduction:
Apply for reproductions to: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 7300, Collegeville, MN, USA. Folio 120v not filmed.
Fol. 1r-112r: 1 col. 25 lines; fol. 112v-113v: 24 lines; fol. 114r-119r: 23 lines. Ruled. Gatherings of six bifolia. Vertical catchwords on last folio of each gathering.
Script:
Humanistic book-round (rotunda).
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Initial on fol. 1r has been cut out; other initials throughout the manuscript were never executed.
Notes:
Paginated in a recent hand.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
fol. 1r-119v
Author:
Sextus Pompeius Festus.
Supplied Title:
De verborum significatu (Epitome of Paulus Diaconus).
Status Of Text:
Many gaps in text.
Rubric:
De verborum significatu, Excerpta sine prologo
Incipit:
Augustus locus sanctus ab avium gestu
Explicit:
Verni stramessallia auguria.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Ed. W. M. Lindsay (Leipzig: Teubner, 1913; rep. Hildesheim, 1964). The scribe left many gaps in the text, especially where Greek words are quoted (see fol. 106r), suggests his exemplar was illegible and that he did not know Greek. Fol. 120r blank.
