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Briton's Vocabularium Bibliae, &c.
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Briton's Vocabularium Bibliae, &c.

  • NLW MS 3090C
  • File
  • Late 14 cent. - 15 cent.

A slightly abridged text, on vellum (circa 1400), with unusual readings, of William Briton (or Breton)'s best known work 'Vocabularium Bibliae', a treatise explanatory of obscure words in the Vulgate version of the Bible; a short treatise on prosody; and a fragment of an abridgement (circa 1450) of Alexander Neckam's 'Repertorium Bibliae', a work similar to the 'Vocabularium Bibliae'.