Vocabularius brevilogus

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Vocabularis breviloquus

The Brevilogus or Vocabularius brevilogus (in the relatinized title form also Breviloquus ) is a Latin dictionary that was created around 1400 and contains occasional German glosses .

Lore

The Brevilogus has been preserved anonymously in at least 43 manuscripts and 22 print editions. The oldest manuscript is dated to the year 1401, the oldest print to the year 1478. 22 print editions had appeared up to 1505.

content

The Brevilogus has three sections, each in alphabetical order. In these sections nouns , verbs and indeclinabilia are listed. The aim is to explain rare and difficult words in a concise manner to enable the spiritual understanding of these words. Therefore, the target group seems to be relatively easy to narrow down: The Brevilogus was written by a cleric for clerics. Initially, only a few German glosses were used for explanations in the sources of tradition, but over the course of time, explanations in German became more and more common. The manuscript census lists six manuscripts in which a proportion of German words can be reliably identified.

effect

The brevilog was one of the main sources of the Vocabularius Ex quo , an early and widely used Latin dictionary. This was printed among others by the German printer Nikolaus Bechtermünz together with Wiegand Spieß von Ortenberg on November 4, 1467 in Eltville am Rhein .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grubmüller 1978, Col. 1033f.
  2. ↑ Grubmüller 1967, pp. 36-38.
  3. ↑ Grubmüller 1978, column 1033.
  4. ↑ Grubmüller 1978, column 1034.
  5. ↑ http://www.handschriftencensus.de/werke/2276
  6. ↑ Grubmüller 1978, column 1033.
  7. ↑ 'Vocabularius Ex quo': Tradition-historical edition. Together with Klaus Grubmüller ed. by Bernhard Schnell , Hans-Jürgen Stahl, Erltraud Auer, Reinhard Pawis et al., Volume I – V, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988–1989 (= texts and text history , 22-26), ISBN 3-484-36022-4 , 3-484 -36023-2, 3-484-36024-0, 3-484-36025-9, 3-484-36026-7.
  8. ^ Josef Benzing :  Bechtermünz, Nikolaus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 695 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Karl Hamann: Communications from the Breviloquus Benthemianus (program of the Realsch. D. Johanneums Hamburg), 1879, 1880, 1882.
  • Wilhelm Padberg: The Vocabularius Breviloquus and its meaning for the lexicography of the late Middle Ages . Dissertation Münster 1912.
  • Georg Goetz: De glossariorum larinorum origine et fatis (CGL 1), 1923, p. 239f.
  • Klaus Grubmüller: Vocabularius Ex quo (MTU 17), 1967, pp. 31-39.
  • Klaus Grubmüller: Brevilogus . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . Vol. 1. Berlin / New York 1978, Sp. 1033f.