Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 447: Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae (excerpted from Moralia, book 4)

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Summary: CCCC MS 447 contains an early sixteenth-century copy of the Latin translation of Plutarch (c. 46-127), Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae from Book IV of the Moralia. James identified both the script and the parchment as being of Italian origin.
Contents: Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae (excerpted from Moralia, book 4)

Alternative title	Plutarch's Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 2 + 88
Date created	[ca. 1500 - 1525]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	20 lines to a page
Height (mm)	181
Width (mm)	120
Collation	a(2), 1(10)-8(10) 9(8).
Writing	in sloping Italic hand
Foliation	ff. a + i-ii + 1-88 + b
Additions	On f. ir, pasted over, is some writing: and also on f. 88v which is likewise pasted over.

M.R. James Date	xvi early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vr204dj1200/MS_447.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jh763dw4753/447.pdf
Contains	Title Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae (excerpted from Moralia, book 4). 1r-86v Author Plutarch Note The text of ff. 1r-8v has been erased more or less completely The volume contains a Latin version of the Quaestiones Romanae and Quaestiones Graecae of Plutarch On the early Latin versions see Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. V 203 The first complete section is on f. 9r Incipit (9r) Quid est quod ancillis eadem Matute ingredi fas non est Note (no. 16) The Roman questions end 59v Explicit (59v) et cognatorum quod bruto accidit Note The Greek continue with no separate title Incipit (59v) Qui sunt quos epidauri compodes artinos appellant Note A good many blanks are left in the text as if the archetype were defective. The text of ff. 81r-82v is erased beginning in the question (no. 46) Incipit (80v) Quid est quod purgatorem uocant thralian (!) Note The first after the blank is (no. 52) Incipit (83r) Quid cause quamobrem elei equas finibus eductas iniri faciunt Note Ends Explicit (86v) postea a genere hamasocii liste (άμαξοκυλιστὰι) nominati sunt Rubric (86v) Finis
TJames	198
Stanley	N. 34
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/tp246fw8333
Location	MS 447
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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