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10 - [BRIGHTENING] Folio from Uguccione da Pisa, Magnae Derivatio…
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[BRIGHTENING] Folio from Uguccione da Pisa, Magnae Derivationes. In Latin, ornate manuscript on parchment, initials watermarked in red and blue. Southern France or Italy, circa 1300-1350. Dimensions: 260 x 180 mm Folio from a manuscript containing this unusual text, one of Dante's sources. The Magnae Derivationes de Uguccione da Pisa or Huguccio of Pisa is a work of etymology inspired by the Derivationes of Osbernus of Gloucester. Huguccio of Pisa studied in Bologna, probably under Gandolfo, and later taught canon law in the same city, probably in the schools attached to the monastery of Saints Nabor and Felix. In 1190, he became Bishop of Ferrara. This leaflet provides entries (definitions, etymologies) for the following Latin words: FEDUS, FENUS, FENIX and FENDO. The word "Fenus" is associated with usury: "Fenus means usury, but usury is profit from capital, whereas loan is profit from usury...". Front page: [...] fedus inter eos... Hoc FENUS -oris id est usura sed usura est lucrum de capitali acceptum, fenus vero lucrum de usura sumptum, vel usura est sine determinato tempore, sicut qui accommodat denarium unum pro duodecim quotquot mensibus acceptor vult, fenus vero cum determinato tempore... Et nota quod fenero vel feneror invenitur etiam pro coniungere et ligare. Feneror -aris cum omnibus suis compositis est deponens ; fenero cum omnibus suis compositis est neutrum, tamen fenero pro coniungere et ligare et defenero pro ditare sunt activa. / FENIX -cis frater fuit Cadmi. Siquidem /.../ Verso of the folio : /.../ Agenor, Europa fìlia sua rapta a love, precepit tribus fdiis suis, scilicet Cadmo et Cilici et Fenici, ut sororem suam perquirerent et si eam non invenirent numquam redirent...In tribus ergo signifìcationibus invenitur feniceus -a -um, idest rubeus a feniceon, et feniceus de Fenicia, et feniceum quod pertinet ad fenicem avem. / FENDO -dis non est in usu sed componitur defendo -dis...ad lapidem pedem offendimus illum invenimus [...].
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