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- Record Id:
- 032-002087388
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087388
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x000318
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055973162.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15601
- Title:
- Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae; Lupus of Ferrières, De Metris Boetii Libellus; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae; Commentary on Persius’ Satires; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus; Prudentius, Psychomachia, Cathemerinon; a short tract on prosody and meter; Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Consolatio Philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy) of Boethius (b. 480, d. 524) with interlinear and marginal glosses, De Metris Boetii Libellus (A Treatise on Boethius’ Meter) by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 805, d. 862) and the Ilias Latina (Latin Illiad) by Baebius Italicus (fl. 60). It also contains the Saturae (Satires) of the Roman poet Persius (b. 34, d. 62), the Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus by Calcidius (fl. 4th century), the Psychomachia (The Struggle in the Soul) and the Cathemerinon (Hymns) by Prudentius (b. 348, d. 413).
Contents:
ff. 1r-16v: A continuous gloss on Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae.
ff. 17r-59r: Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae, with contemporary interlinear and marginal glosses.
ff. 59r-60v: Lupus of Ferrières, De Metris Boetii Libellus, beginning: ‘quinque philosophice consolationis insignis auctor Boecius’.
ff. 60v-70r: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae, with interlinear glosses, beginning: ‘nec fonte labra prolui caballino’.
ff. 70r-74v: Commentary on Persius’ Saturae, beginning: ‘Persius diu hesitans utrum milicie pocius’.
ff. 75r-88r: Calcidius, Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus, beginning: ‘Socrates in exortationibus suis’.
ff. 88v-95v: Prudentius, Psychomachia, beginning: ‘Senex fidelis prima credendi via est’.
ff. 95v-101v: Prudentius, Cathemerinon, beginning: ‘germine Nobilis Eululalia’.
f. 102r: A short tract on prosody and meter, beginning: ‘ne per exemplum’.
ff. 102v-108r: Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina, beginning: ‘Iram pande michi pelide diua superbi’ and ending: ‘illa lire graciles extenso pollice cordas’.
Decoration:
A diagram depicting the wheel of fortune in brown ink (f. 49v). A large ‘XPE’ monogram in brown and red (f. 89r). 8 large decorated initials with arabesque in brown and red ink (ff. 75r, 88v, 96v, 97v, 98v, 99r, 101r, 101v). Large decorated initials in brown ink. Numerous small initials in brown ink with red highlighting. Capitals in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087388
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002087388
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055973162.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0960
- End Date:
- 1040
- Date Range:
- Late 10th century-Early 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 140 mm (text space: 210 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 108 ( + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1975. A fragment of the old spine inscribed in gold ‘Boetius et Persi Satirae Mss’ is pasted inside the first cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
The monastery of the Celestines in Avignon: its mark of ownership in a fifteenth-century hand (f. 108r).
An unknown 14th-century owner: his or her verses: ‘Impiger extremos pergit mercator ad Indos per mare pauperem fugiens per saxa per ignes’ in a 14th-century hand (f. 74v).
An unknown 15th-century owner: inscribed with his or her note about prosody (f. 108v).
Charles Motteley (b. 1778, d. 1850), book collector: owned by him [f. 5recto].
Purchased by the British Museum from Charles Mottley in Paris on 8 November 1845 (f. 5r).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 31.
Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by Leighton D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 193.
Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, ed. by Margaret T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25 (London: The Warburg Institute, 1995), pp. 112-13.
Joseph Wittig, ‘‘Remigian’ Glosses on Boethius’s Consolatio Philosophiae’, in Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill, ed. by Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs and Thomas N. Hall (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 168-200 (p. 189).
Adrian Papahagi, Boethiana Medievalia: A Collection of Studies on the Early Medieval Fortune of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy (Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2010), pp. 148, 152.
Rosalind C. Love, ‘The Latin Commentaries on Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae from the 9th to the 11th Centuries’, in A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, ed. by Noel Harold Kaylor and Philip Edward Phillips, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 30 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 75-134 (p. 87).
- 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.