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Royal MS 15 B XXI
- Record Id:
- 040-002107063
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000d4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 B XXI
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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VIRGIL, Works, viz.: 1. Bucolica, with a distich summary to each eclogue. Summary beg. 'Hic deflet Moelibeus profugiat quid inique'. Marginal gloss beg. 'Nota in hac egloga duo introducuntur pastores'. Colophon, 'Virgilii Maronis Bucolicon explicit'. f. 2.
2. Georgica, with four-line summaries (attributed in the margin to Ovid) to each book, as printed by Bährens, Poetae Lat. Minores, iv, p. 444, beg. 'Quid faciat laetas segetes, que sydera seruet'. Gloss beg. 'Virgilius considerans quattuor species'. Colophon, 'P. Maronis Virgilii Geor. liber quartus et ultimus explicit'. f. 17.
3. 'Incipit liber primus (- xii) Aeneidos eximii poetae Virgilii Maronis', preceded by the twelve monosticha beg. '[P]rimus habet Libicam ueniant ut Troes in urbem' from the Carmina duodecim sapientum (Bährens, iv, p. 151). Each book has also the monostich ('Aeneas primo Libye depellitur oris', &c., cf. 15 B. VI) printed by Bährens, iv, p. 176, except that for book iii, which is omitted, and book ii, where it is inserted in another hand, and the ten-line summary of Bahrens, iv, p. 162, beg. 'Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus' (cf 15 B. VI). Gloss beg. 'Virgilius in hoe primo libro Eneidos primo proponit intentum'. Colophon, 'Liber xii et ultimus explicit'. f. 57.
Vellum; ff. 239. 101/4 in. x 71/4 in XV cent. Written in Italy. Gatherings usually of 10 leaves (last two 8), lettered, the first leaf bearing the same letter as the last leaf of the preceding quire.
28 lines to a page. Sec. fol. 'Hinc tib!'. Illuminated initials, white vine-tendril; space is left at the foot of f. 2, apparently for arms. On f. 2 is the name Iohannes de Flandria, and on f. 1 'Ex libris Claudii Expillii 1592' [President of the Parlement of Grenoble, d. 1636]. Old Royal press-mark of a seal (a ship); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8606.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107063 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 B XXI : VIRGIL, Works, viz.: 1. Bucolica, with a distich summary to each eclogue. Summary beg. 'Hic deflet Moelibeus profugiat… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1260]/040-002107063
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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