Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 071: Macrobius, Saturnalia, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis. Apuleius, De Platone, De deo Socratis
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- As an important witness to the twelfth-century interest in texts of classical Roman and late antique authors, CCCC MS 71 contains Macrobius, Saturnalia, Macrobius's commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, and Apuleius, Opera philosophica. The Apuleius texts belong to the third group of manuscripts of these works as classified by Beaujeu. The added thirteenth-century list of contents on the flyleaf is in a special form characteristic of the Abbey of St Albans. It is likely that the book was made at the abbey, although there is no firm evidence it was there until the thirteenth century when the contents were listed. Thomson, in his study of St Albans manuscripts, dates the book to c. 1150. On the flyleaf a fifteenth-century note values the book at xx s.
- Contents
- Saturnalia -- Somnium Scipionis -- Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis -- De Platone et eius dogmate, book 1 -- De Platone et eius dogmate, book 2 -- De mundo -- De deo Socratis -- Epistola ad Gerbertum -- Epistola ad Adelbodum
Description
| Alternative title | Macrobius. Apuleius |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 151 + 1 |
| Date created | [ca. 1100 - 1199] |
| Language | Latin |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 38 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 288 |
| Width (mm) | 197 |
| Collation | a(1) 1(8)-19(8) (wants 8). |
| Writing | in a very beautiful round minuscule. I think two scribes may be distinguished: but this is not certain. The ink changes about f. 64r |
| Foliation | ff. a + i + 1-151 + b-d |
| Research | The text of Macrobius was seen by Gronovius but not by Lud. Janus nor Eyssenhardt. The MS. was consulted in 1880 by Dr Lütjohann |
| Additions | On the verso of the flyleaf (f. iv) (recto is blank) is (xv) prec. xxs, and an old list of contents, handsomely written (xii): Machrobius de saturnalibus Sompnium scipionis Machrobius super sompnium scipionis Apuleius de deo socratis. There has been an inscription below, but it is hopelessly gone. A Parkerian scribe has written: Hic liber scriptus Macrobii ut aliquot alii scripti possunt in hunc usum seruari ut conferas librum impressum cum scripto. Then follows a full table of contents in red ink signed A. S. H. 13 November 1711. |
| 2 fo. | urget atque implicat |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xii |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 300 |
| Stanley | V. 4 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jk450vc4313 |
| Location | MS 071 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
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