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Royal MS 15 B XII
- Record Id:
- 040-002107054
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000cb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059472453.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 B XII
- Title:
- Juvenal, Saturae, with interlinear and marginal glosses
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of Juvenal's Saturae (Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses (ff. 3r-59v), written in the 1st half of the 10th century in Central France.
This volume also includes two flyleaves (ff. 1-2) from another manuscript probably written in Fleury in the last quarter of the 9th century. These two leaves contain a fragment from the Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio). Other fragments from this manuscript are: Leyde, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit MS Vossius Lat. 12β (ff. 24v-26v); Leyde, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit MS Vossius Lat. F. 122. Macrobe's commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio was formerly preceded by Cicero's De senectute (On Old Age), fragment of which is now Leyde, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit MS Vossius Lat. 12β, ff. 24v-26v (see Barker-Benfield, The Manuscripts of Macrobius' Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis(1976) and Bischoff, Katalog (2004)).
Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: Fragment from Macrobe's Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, beginning: 'Et cur dixerit Tullius'; ending: 'esse omnium spherarum lumen in solem (sic)'.
ff. 3r-59v: Juvenal, Saturae, beginning with the heading: 'Decimi Iunii Iuvenalis satirarum incipit liber'; beginning of the text: 'Semper ego auditor tantum'; ending: 'ventri indulsit non omne legumen. Explicit liber Iuvenalis feliciter. Amen'; includes interlinear and marginal glosses.
Decoration:
Initials in brown, some with penwork decoration in the same colour.
Quire signatures (from f. 26v to 42v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107054 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 B XII : Juvenal, Saturae, with interlinear and marginal glosses - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1251]/040-002107054
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059472453.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 0949
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 150 mm (text space 205 x 90/115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 59 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end), ff. 1 and 2 are parchment flyleaves taken from an early or mid-10th-century manuscript.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Royal Library binding of brown leather with the royal arms and a date of 1757.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Fleury, Central France.
Provenance:
?The Benedictine abbey of Fleury: perhaps acquired from here by François Daniel but not identifiable in the catalogue of 1552.
François Daniel of Orleans, baillif of the Benedictine abbey of Fleury and brother of Pierre Daniel (b. 1531, d. 1604), scholar and bibliophile: erased inscription, 'Ex libris Francisci Danielis Aurelii' (f. 59v), (see Warner and Gilson, Catalogue (1921)); their library acquired by Jacques Bongars in 1604.
Jacques Bongars, diplomat and scholar, (b. 1554, d. 1612): inscribed with his name (f. 3r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, (f. 20) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, nos 8506, 8507); this manuscript was consulted by Richard Bentley (b. 1662, d. 1742), philologist and classical scholar: a reference to the Leiden 1628-edition written in his hand (f. 1r).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 158.
B.C. Barker-Benfield, The Manuscripts of Macrobius' Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis (Oxford: unpublished PhD Thesis, 1975), pp. 228-42.
B.C. Barker-Benfield, 'Macrobius' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L.D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 226, 229.
J. P. Gumbert, 'Cicerones Leidenses', in Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, ed. by Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel and Margaret M. Smith (Leiden: Anderrson-Lovelace and the Red Gull Press, 1996) pp. 209-44 (p. 234), [with further bibliography].
Marco Mostert, 'The Tradition of Classical Texts in the manuscripts of Fleury', in Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, ed. by Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel and Margaret M. Smith (Leiden: Anderrson-Lovelace and the Red Gull Press, 1996) pp. 19-40 (p. 33).
Macrobius, Commentaire au songe de Scipion, ed. by Mireille Armisen-Marchetti, 2 vols (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2001-2003), I, p. lxxxvii, II, p. xvii, (manuscript V).
Irene Caiazzo, Lectures médiévales de Macrobe: les glosae colonienses super Macrobium (Paris: Vrin, 2002), p. 16.
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, no. 2185.
Birger Munk Olsen, 'Chronique des Manuscrits Classiques Latins (IXe-XIIe)', Revue d'Histoire des Textes, 2 (2007), 49-106 (p. 62).
Birger Munk Olsen, L’Étude des Auteurs Classiques Latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 4 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-2014), I (1982), p. 573; IV part 1 (2009), p. 57; IV part 2 (2014), p.115.
- 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.