Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 230: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais

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Summary: The copy of the Thebaid by the Roman poet, Statius (c. 45-c. 96), was donated to Corpus Christi College by the scholar, poet and diplomat, Daniel Rogers (c. 1538-91). The manuscript of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century is either French or English. It has some notations in the margins. This epic poem is about the attack on the city of Thebes by the seven leaders of Argos, and is a reworking of an ancient Greek epic now mostly lost. The text was of interest in the Middle Ages, used as a source for the twelfth-century French romance, Le Roman de Thèbes, and by Boccaccio and Chaucer.
Contents: Thebais

Alternative title	Statii Thebais
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 83
Date created	[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Language	Latin; French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material	Vellum
Layout	51 lines to a page
Height (mm)	230
Width (mm)	125
Collation	I(8)-VI(8) (+1) VII gone VIII(8)-X(8) XI(10).
Writing	very neatly written
Foliation	ff. i + 1-83 + ii
Provenance	Given by Daniel Rogers.
Additions	There are many glosses. I have not seen any in vernacular. The marginal drawings are sometimes very funny.

M.R. James Date	xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cg145gn2034/MS_230.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gr159np6399/230.pdf
Contains	Title Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais. 1r-83v Author Publius Papinius Statius Note (1r) Liber I Incipit (1r) Fraternas acies Note (8r) Liber II . With argument Incipit (8r) Ut maya genitus Note (15r) Liber III. With argument (22r) Liber IV. No argument (30r) Liber V. No argument (37r) Liber VI. No argument (45v) Liber VII. No argument Ends imperfectly with line 488 Explicit (49v) asspexit achivos Note A quire gone (50r) Liber VIII. 1-418 gone. Begins 419 Incipit (50r) Nec locus Note (53r) Liber IX. No argument (60v) Liber X (69r) Liber XI (75v) Liber XII Ends Explicit (83r) referentur honores Rubric (83r) Pampinii Surculi Thebaidos lib. XIImus explicit Note Twelve lines (83r) Adsociat profugum tideo primus polinicem...Argiam flentem narrat duodenus et ignem Rubric (83r) Explicit iste liber poscat sua dona magister Note On f. 83v a scribble, xiii (83v) Ascum trecher amy Johan de powey (? fowey) le sun
TJames	vac.
Stanley	Lib. ab Al. 21
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sk997cn6567
Location	MS 230
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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