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Add MS 10084
- Record Id:
- 032-002107866
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002107866
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x000135
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055964761.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 10084
- Title:
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Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-60r: Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC), Bellum Gallicum (The War in Gaul), beginning: ‘[G]allia est omnia divisa in partes tres’.
ff. 60r-94r: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile (The Civil War), beginning: ‘Litteris C[aii] Cesaris a Fabio consulibus redditis’.
ff. 94r-107v: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Alexandrinum (The Alexandrine War), beginning: ‘Bello Alexandrino confecto Cesar ex Syria’.
ff. 107v-112v: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Africanum (The African War), ending imperfectly, beginning: ‘[C]esar intineribus iustis confectis’.
Decoration:
1 large initial in red (f. 2r). Numerous small initials in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002107866
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002107866
- 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_100055964761.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 180 mm (text space 200 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 112 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house. Spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum ‘CAESARES COMMENTARII’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Origin: ? Gembloux, Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium), or France.
Provenance:
? Gembloux or France: the titulus and colophon of the Bello Gallico resemble those of a manuscript produced at Tournai (Tournai, Bibliothèque de la Ville cod. 169) (see Brown, 'Latin Manuscripts' (1979), p. 156).
An unknown 12th-century owner: his or her marginal notes throughout, in a 12th-century hand.
An unknown 15th-century owner: inscribed with his or her verses in a 15th-century hand: ‘est tarde nimium post bonbum claudere cullum. Omnibus est notum lotis manibus dare potunt’ (f. 49r).
An unknown 15th-century owner: his or her summary of contents, damaged (f. 1v).
Laevinus Torrentius (b. 1525, d. 1595), humanist and bishop of Antwerp: given by him to the Jesuit College in Leuven (see Mogenet, ‘Le César’, p. 310-11).
Justus Lipsius (b. 1547, d. 1606), humanist: owned by him between 1591 and 1592 (see Roersch, ‘La Correspondance’ (1926), p. 186).
The Jesuit College in Leuven: donated by Laevinus Torrentius in 1595 (see above); owned until 1773; perhaps the College's shelfmark ‘Y 3’ in an early-modern hand (f. 1r).
Richard Heber (b. 1773, d. 1833), book collector: his sale, 12 February 1836, lot 456 [f. 3r], sold to the British Museum for £52.10.
- 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. 30.
Émile Chatelain, Paléographie des classiques latins (Paris: Hachette, 1892) p. 30.
Alphonse Roersch, ‘La Correspondance de Lipse et de Torrentius’, Musée Belge, 30 (1926), 181-192 (p. 186).
César. La Guerre Civile, ed. and trans. by Pierre Fabre, 2 vols (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1936), I, p. xliv.
Marie-Thérèse Vernet-Boucrel, ‘Les publications françaises relatives aux manuscrits (1946-1950)’, Scriptorium, 5 (1951), 310-30 (p. 323).
Joseph Mogenet, ‘Le « César » de Tournai et la tradition manuscrite du « Bellum Gallicum »’, L'Antiquité Classique (1951), 305-14 (p. 310-11).
Virginia Brown, 'Latin Manuscripts of Caesar's "Gallic War"', in Paleographica Diplomatica et Archivistica. Studi in onore di Giulio Battelli (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1979), pp. 105-57 (p. 153).
Birger Munk Olsen, L'étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-2014), I (1982), p. 41; IV/2 (2014), p. 271.
Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by Leighton D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 35.
- 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.