Add MS 47678

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1951-1955, 2vols (London: The British Library, 1982), I, pp. 47-50:

'HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. VII (formerly MS. 387). CICERO, SPEECHES, with scholia, written at Tours in the early 9th century. This mutilated manuscript contains parts of the four speeches In Catilinam, the speeches Pro Q. Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro and In Verrem, Second Actio, Second Speech. Apart from papyri and the Vatican Palimpsest of the Verrines, it is the earliest and best manuscript of the texts that it contains. Contents:- (1) In Catilinam:-(a) Title, 'Orationes C. in Catilinam', and text of Cat. I, 1-5, beg. 'Quousque tandem', ends, 'hoc quod iam pridem'. f. 1;-(b) Cat. I, 17, 'uiderem carere me'-Cat. II, 11, lpoterunt quacunque'. On f. 6 are the explicit of the first Catilinarian and the heading of the second: 'ln Lucrum Catilinam Liber primus explicit. Incipit Liber Secundus feliciter'. ff. 2-8b;- (c) Cat. II, 15, 'ne mini sit inuidiosum'-III, 1, 'conseruatam ac resti[tutam]'. On f. 12b is the explicit of the second Catilinarian and the heading of the third: 'ln L. Catilinam Liber 11 explicit. Incipit Liber 111 feliciter'. ff. 9- 12b;-(d) Cat. III, 9-19, 'regnum huius urbis-totius urbis atque'. ff. 13- 15b;-(e) Cat. III, 23-26, 'ac miserrimo interitu-non eadem est fortune'. f. 16;-(f) Cat. IV, 8-15, 'constituta esse uoluerunt-frequentia quo studio'. ff. 17-18b. (2) (a) Pro Q. Ligario, 18-28, 'hoc uictore esse-auctor fui sed tum'. ff. 19-20b;-(b) Pro Q. Ligario, 38, 'si illi absenti salutem'-Pro rege Deiotaro, 6, 'audiente et disceptante'. On f. 21 is the explicit and the heading 'M. Tulli Ciceronis pro Quinto Ligario explicit. Incipit pro rege Deiotaro'. f. 21;-(c) Pro rege Deiotaro, 15, 'finitimi omnes liberos populos'-end. On f. 27b is the explicit 'M. Tulli Ciceronis pro rege Deiotaro explicit'. ff. 22-27b. (3) In Verrem, Act. II, Or. ii:-(a) 1-30, 'Multa mihi necessaria-hoc est cum sua cohorte'. ff. 28-33b;-(b) 112-117, 'ac magnificentissime gessit cupidissimumque'. f. 34;-(c) 157-183, 'iamdudum enim mihi hoc quidem certe manifestum'. ff. 35-39b. The lacunae in the text amount to three leaves after f. 1, one after f. 8, two after f. 12, one after f. 15, three after f. 16, three after f. 18 to the end of Catiline IV. Before f. 19 three leaves of the Pro Q. Ligario are missing, two after f. 20, and two of the Pro rege Deiotaro after f. 21. There are approximately seventeen leaves of Verres 11. ii missing after f. 33, eight after f. 34, and two after f. 39 to the end of the speech. Besides these lacunae, the manuscript once contained Verres II. iii (which would have needed about forty-eight leaves). This is indicated not only by the 12th cent. catalogue of the Abbey of Cluny ('Volumen in quo continetur Cicero in Catillina, et idem pro Quinto Ligario et pro rege Dejotaro, et de publicis litteris et de actione, idemque in Verinis', see L. Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits, ii, 1874, p. 478), but also by its relationship with the Lagomarsinianus 42, which has a vulgate text of all the Verrine speeches except 11. ii and II. iii. The text of II. ii and 11. iii, copied from the present MS., is excellent and has in fact been 'corrected' to the vulgate text of the rest of the manuscript. Geneva, Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, MS. lat. 169, a single leaf containing In Verrem II. iv, 40(86)-42(92), may once have belonged to the present MS., see G. Vaucher, Geneva, ix, 1931, pp. 120-124 and fig. 1. The present MS. may also have contained Pro Marcello before Pro Q. Ligario. Two gaps have been left in the text on f. 32b to represent gaps or illegible passages in the exemplar. The text has received a number of corrections, which have been subsequently removed. The first printed notice of the manuscript, apart from a listing in R. Förster, Philologus, xlii, 1884, pp. 158-167, is in E. Chatelain, Paléographie des Classiques latins, i, 1884-1892, p. 28 and pl. xxvii (reproducing f. 12b). W. Peterson, Collations from the Codex Cluniacensis s. Holkhamicus, 1901 (Anecdota Oxoniensia, classical series, part ix), gave a detailed description of the manuscript with reproductions of ff. 1, 16 and 28, and also printed the scholia. Further discussion by Peterson and A. C. Clark is in Classical Review, xvi, 1902, pp. 322-327, 401-405, 460-461; xvii, 1903, pp. 162-164, and in A. C. Clark, The Descent of Manuscripts, 1918, pp. 235-252. The manuscript has been used as a primary authority in all editions since then, e.g. Peterson and Clark in the Oxford Classical Texts, 1901, 1905, 1907, and the Teubner editions of A. Klotz, 1918 and 1923, and P. Reis, 1927. Vellum; ff. iv + 39. 3 10 mm. x 230 mm. (cropped: text-space 245 mm. x 175 mm.). Early ix cent. Written at Tours in one or two hands with f. 22 in a separate hand. Sec. fol. (hypothetically) 'factum esse'. Gatherings of eight leaves: i lacks 1, 3, 4, 5; ii lacks 5; iii lacks 2, 3, 7; iv lacks 1-3, 6-8. The rest may be hypothetically reconstructed as if Pro Marcello occupied six leaves before f. 19 (i.e. before Pro Q. Ligario): v8 lacks all; vi8 lacks 1, 4, 5, 7, 8; vii8 lacks 7, 8 (which may have been blank); viii8 lacks 7, 8; ix8 lacks all; x8 lacks 1-7;xi8 lacks all; xii8 lacks 6-8 (see T. S. Pattie, 'The ruling as a clue to the make-up of a medieval manuscript', British Library Journal, i, 1975, pp. 15- 21). The reconstruction in Clark, op. cit., differs in some details. F. 22 is a replacement leaf, written in a different hand and not corresponding in ruling or in hair-side-flesh-side sequence to any other surviving folio. Four signatures survive: q.i. (f. 4b), q.ii (f. llb), q.iii. (f. 16b), q.x. (f. 34b). After and half below q.x. an erased 'vi' is visible in ultra-violet light. Ruled in two columns of twenty-four lines (twenty-five lines on ff. 34-39) with a pointed instrument four leaves at a time, except gathering i, two at a time (see E. K. Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, 1929, pp. 11-18, 104). Some gatherings ruled on the inside (i, ii, vi?, viii, x) and others on the outside (iii, iv, vii, xii), and usually only the top folios are pricked. The ruling identifies ff. 23-27, 28-33, and 35-39 as parts of gatherings vii, viii and xii, with ff. 25- 26, 31-32 and 38-39 the inner folios. Discolorations in the vellum confirm that ff. 25-26 and 31-32 were conjugate. The script is a Caroline minuscule of the type described by E. K. Rand, op. cit., as 'Improved' or 'Embellished Merovingian'. Three forms of 'a' are common: the open double-c form, the closed double-c (but only in ligatured 'ra'), and the 'uncial' form 'a'. Some uncial forms are found, especially 'N', commonly also the ligatured 'NT'. Ligatures of Merovingian type appear, e.g. 'ra' 're' 'rt', and once 'en' at the end of a line, but non-ligatured forms are also frequent. Explicits, titles and initials in rustic capitals. On ff. 12b, 21, 27b alternate lines of the titles are coloured red, now faded. Decorated initials to speeches on ff. 1, 6, 12b, 21, 28, those on ff. 21, 28 being coloured in the same faded red. Abbreviations are rare but include the common signs for 'per' 'pro' 'prae' and 'est' as well as a suprascript bar for 'm'. 'Technical abbreviations occur, e.g. 'res p' for res publica, '.S.C.' for senatus consultum, '.P.R.' for populus Romanus. 19th cent. calf binding with the gilt ostrich stamp of the Coke family. The manuscript may have found its way in the 9th cent. from Tours to the Abbey of Cluny, where it certainly was in the 12th cent. lt was no. 498 in the catalogue of that Abbey prepared under Abbé Hugues, 1158-1161 (see L. Delisle, op. cit.). On f. 1 is the Abbey's ownership mark 'de conuentu clun(iacensi)' written in a Gothic text-hand perhaps in the 14th cent. (now faded). The manuscript was complete in the late 15th or early 16th cent. when the Lagomarsinianus 42 (now Florence, Badia 2618) made use of it. The Abbey suffered in the religious wars of the 16th cent. and was severely sacked in 1562, and the manuscript was not in the catalogue made by Dom Anselme le Michel, circ. 1645. Its readings were apparently used by various 16th cent. scholars, such as Cujas, Fabricius and Nannius. It was acquired by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester 1744, probably on the Continent circ. 1712- 1718. Bookplate of Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester of Holkham 1837, f. i. At ff. ii-iii are notes by the Rev. Charles Warburton James, librarian at Holkham, circ. 1919-1921'.