Virgil (Virgilius; Vergilius; Vergil), Aeneid, fragment of Books 7, 8, 10, and 11, with rubrics in red and initials in red or black. Paraphs and chapter numbers (in upper margins) added in black.
Caelius Sedulius, Carmen paschale, fragment of Books 1-3, with interlinear and marginal gloss in Latin. Initials and rubrics originally in silver, now showing the red ground.
Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, fragment
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Contents: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, books 1.2.2-2.15.8, Decoration: Ink diagram of a Zodiac wheel with the earth at the centre (f. 61v). Round ink diagrams of the heavens (ff. 63v, 69r) and of the earth (f. 67v). A round map of the oceans and inhabited regions of...
The manuscript is composed of two parts of different date: ff. 1r-31v (+ the following unfoliated leaf) and ff. 32r-63v, and includes: ff. 1r-4v: Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist. ff. 5r-31v: Diomedes, Artis Grammaticae Libri III. ff. 32r-60r: M. Tullius Cicero, Epist...
Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist
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Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist (transliterated in Latin alphabet), incipit: 'as assanon assis'. The list of the idiomata generum type including Latin words of which the Greek equivalent is of different gender.
Diomedes, Artis Grammaticae Libri III, incipit: 'Artis grammaticae auctores exordium scribendi varium diversumque sumpserunt', with a prologue, incipit: 'Incipit prologus Diomedis. Diomedes Athanasio salutem'.
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae in 4 books, incipit: 'Cicero salutem dicit puplio lentulo proconsuli. Ego omni officio ac potius pietate erga te ceteris'.