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Royal MS 6 A XV
- Record Id:
- 040-002106149
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x0001b1
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- Royal MS 6 A XV
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WORKS of L. Caelius Firmianus Lactantius, doubtless a mixed text based on that of the Bologna MS., but incorporating alien readings and conjectures. Greek quotations are in a cursive hand in red (but many left blank) with the Latin interpretation in the margin. Contents:-
1. 'Firmiani Lactantii divinarum institutionum liber primus (-septinius) . . . incipit' (Corpus Scriptorum Eccl. Lat., Vienna, vol. 19, 1890). Beg. 'Magno et excellenti ingenio viri'. f. 1.
2. 'Lactantii de ira dei liber incipit' (Corpus Scr. Eccl. Lat., vol. 27, 1893, p. 67). Beg. 'Animaduerti sepe Donate'., Prefixed is a short excerpt from S. Augustine De Civitate Dei (lib. xx, cap. 30, § 5, Migne, Patr. Lat. xli. 708), 'Nullus uel negat ... esse uentura'. f. 188.
3. 'Lactantii de opificio vel formatione hominis liber incipit feliciter': the Liber de Opificio Dei (Corpus Scr. Eccl. Lat., vol. 27, P. 3). The text includes the interpolated passage in ch. ig. Beg. 'Quam minime sim quietus'. f. 207 b.
4. 'Epithomen sesti (sic) et septimi libri': ch. Si-68 (end) of the Epitome of the Institutiones of Lactantius (ib., vol. ig, P. 730). Beg. 'Nam si iustitia est ueri dei cultus'. Colophon, F. Lactantii adversus gentiles liber explicit'. f. 226.
5. 'Lactantii versus de resurrectione Christi': fifty elegiac couplets, really the work of Venantius Fortunatus, lib. iii, cap. ix (Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxxviii. 130). In Migne's text it begins 'Tempora florigero rutilant distincta sereno This is here the second couplet, being preceded by that which stands twentieth in Migne's text, and five more couplets are there added at the end. Beg. 'Salue feste dies toto uenerabilis euo', and ends 'ubere lacte sinu f. 236 b.
6. Opinions of S. Augustine and S. Jerome on Lactantius and secular literature generally. The quotations are mostly a cento of sentences from different works, but the last is chap. lxxx of Jerome De Viris Illustribus (Migne, Patr. Lat. xxiii. 687). Beg. 'De his libris dici potest'. Colophon, 'Deo gratias. ------- (sic). finis'. f. 238.
Vellum: ff. 238. 11.1/4 in. x 8 in. XV cent. Written in Italy. Gatherings of 10 leaves, with catchwords. Sec. fol. 'dentes arbiter'. illuminated initials; a medallion (with arms?) has been obliterated. Belonged to john Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. 66; CMA. 6250.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106149 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 6 A XV : WORKS of L. Caelius Firmianus Lactantius, doubtless a mixed text based on that of the Bologna MS., but incorporating alien… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0388]/040-002106149
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
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- File
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- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
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