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Egerton MS 2627
- Record Id:
- 032-001983598
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983598
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0002cb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059811817.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2627
- Title:
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Claudianus Claudius, Carmina Majora, Carmina Minora, De Raptu Proserpine
- Scope & Content:
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This is a 12th-century collection of works by the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), including De Raptu Proserpinae (The Rape of Proserpine), De Bello Gildonico (On the Gildonic War), and his poems on the marriage of the Emperor Honorius, for whom he was a court poet, and the consulship of his minister Stilicho.
Contents:
ff. 1r-17v: Claudianus, In Rufinum (Against Rufinus), with preface beginning ‘Phebeo domitus phiton’.
ff. 17v-27r: Claudianus, De Bello Gildonico, with preface beginning ‘Pandite defensum reduces’.
ff. 27r-48v: Claudianus, In Eutropium (Against Eutropius), two books, beginning ‘Spartus metuenda’.
ff. 48v-50v: Claudianus, Fescennina de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (Fescennine Verses on the Marriage of Honorius Augustus), beginning ‘Princeps chorusco sidere pulcrior’.
ff. 50v-57r: Claudianus, Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (Epithalamium for the Marriage of Honorius Augustus), beginning ‘Surgeret in thalamum’.
ff. 57r-61v: Claudianus, Panegyricus de Tertio Consulatu (Panegyric on the Third Consulship), beginning ‘Paruos non aquilis’.
ff. 61v-73r: Claudianus, Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu (Panegyric on the Fourth Consulship), beginning ‘Auspiciis iterum sese regalibus annus’.
ff. 73r-79v: Claudianus, Panegyricus Dictus Manlio Theodoro Consuli (Panegyric on Consul Manlius Theodorus), beginning, with preface beginning ‘Audebis non precor docte’.
ff. 79v-101v: Claudianus, De Consulatu Stilichonis (On the Consulship of Stilicho), three books, beginning ‘Continuant superi pleno’.
ff. 101v-113v: Claudianus, Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti (Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of Honorius Augustus), with preface, beginning ‘Omnia que sensu voluunta’.
ff. 113v-125v: Claudianus, De Bello Gothico (On the Gothic War), beginning ‘Post resides annos longo’.
ff. 125v-138r: Claudianus, Carmina Minora (Minor Poems), beginning ‘Urbs in conspectu montana’.
ff. 138r-142r: Claudianus, Laus Serenae (In praise of Serena), beginning ‘Dic mea calliope’.
ff. 142r-147v: Claudianus, Epistolae et Carmina Minora (Letters and Minor Poems), beginning ‘Orphea cum primum’.
ff. 147v-149v: Claudianus, Gigantomachia (Battle of the Giants), beginning ‘Terra parens quondam’.
ff. 149v-166v: Claudianus, De Raptu Proserpinae, beginning ‘Inventa primum secuit’.
Decoration:
10 large puzzle initials in red, blue and green, with foliate decoration, on ff. 1r, 8r, 17v, 18r, 48v, 57r, 61v, 73r, 73v, 114r; numerous large initials in red, blue and green, with foliate decoration. Small initials in red, blue, or green, with penwork decoration in black ink. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983598
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983598
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059811817.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1160
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- Late 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (text space 160 x 90mm).
Foliation: ff. 166 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 18th-century red leather with gold tooling, spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum, marbled end-papers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Troyes, Northeastern France.
Provenance:
? Henry I (b. 1127, d. 1181), known as the Liberal, count of Champagne, in the 1160s: decorated by the same workshop at Troyes that decorated other manuscripts for the count (according to Stirnemann, 'Un manuscript de Claudien' (2003), 53-57).
Alexandre Petau (d. 1672), senator of Paris and bibliophile: identified as the 'Petavianus secundus' that was used for the 1650 and 1665 editions by Nicolas Heinsius the Elder (b. 1620, d. 1681); his shelfmark 'M.37' (f. 1r); left his collection after it was consulted by Heinsius and before Petau's death (see Stirnemann 'Un manuscript de Claudien' (2003), 53-57).
Anthony Askew (d. 1774), physician and book collector, owned in 1774: his sale, London, Leigh & Sotheby, 12 March 1785, Lot 454; purchased by Michael Wodhull for £3. 5. 0 (note on f. [ii] recto).
Michael Wodhull (b. 1740, d. 1816), book-collector and translator, owned between 1785 and 1816: his inscriptions 'Leigh's Auction Dr Askew's manuscripts 3£ 5s'. M: Wodhull Mar: 12th 1785 (f. [ii] recto); and 'Collated + complete, excepting one defect in the 6th Idyllium and four in the Rape of Proserpine, which are omissions in the manuscript: for it has not suffered any mutilation' (f. [ii] recto); his sale, London, Sotheby’s 11-21 January 1886 (note on flyleaf); purchased by the British Museum, together with 6 other manuscripts, for a combined price of £341. 5. 0., using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection.
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1882-1887 (London: British Museum, 1889), no. 2627.
Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae, ed. by John Barrie Hall, Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 11 (Cambridge: CUP, 1969), pp. 14-15.
Claudius Claudianus, De bello Gildonico, ed. by Elżbieta M. Olechowska (Leiden: Brill, 1978).
Claudii Claudiani Carmina, ed. by John Barrie Hall (Leipzig: Teubner, 1985).
Claudi Claudià, El Rapte de Prosèrpina, ed. by Àngels Calderó, introduction and notes by Àngels Calderó and Antoni Seva (Barcelona: Fundacio Bernat Metge, 1995), p. 37.
Peter Lebrecht Schmidt, Traditio Latinitatis: Studien zur Rezeption und Überlieferung der lateinischen Literatur (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2000), p. 55, n. 110.
Patricia Stirnemann, ‘Reconstitution des bibliothèques en langue latine des comtes de Champagne’, in Le Moyen-âge à livres ouverts - Actes du colloque (Lyon, 24 et 25 septembre 2002) (Lyon: ARALD, 2003), pp. 37-45.
Patricia Stirnemann, ‘La bibliothèque des comtes de Champagne: quelques découvertes récentes’, Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France (2006), 36-37 (p. 36).
Patricia Stirnemann, ‘Un Manuscrit de Claudien fabriqué à la cour de Champagne dans les années 1160', in La tradition vive: mélanges d'histoire des textes en l'honneur de Louis Holtz, ed. by Pierre Lardet, Bibliologia, 20 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 53-57, pl. after p. 57.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.