[Literary miscellany].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.

Epigrams, Latin.

Pastoral poetry, Latin.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Cardinal virtues.

Proserpina (Roman deity).

Old age--Early works to 1800.

Old age.

Cardinal virtues--Early works to 1800.

Cynics (Greek philosophy).

Rome--History--Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.

Genre:

Didactic poetry, Latin.

codices (bound manuscripts)

anthologies

commentaries

annotations

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, cat. 22 (1971), no. 56.

Physical Description:

172 leaves : paper ; 185 x 150 (130-145 x 100) mm bound to 195 x 150 mm

Production:

[Italy], [1471?]

Language Note:

Latin, with some Greek.

Summary:

A collection of Latin poetry and prose, consisting of mostly classical sources, but also containing some medieval works. Contains some marginal and interlinear notes and corrections in various near-contemporary hands. Many smaller initials are slashed with red. Many of the sections end with the Greek word telos. Contains some short marginal poems in red in a different hand, along with some commentary arranged in geometric patterns in the margins.

Contents:

1. f.1r-21v: Bucolica / Virgil.

2. f.22r-25r: Moreti / Virgil.

3. f.26r-81r: Georgica / Virgil.

4. f.82r-110v: De coniuratione Catilinae / Caius Crispus Sallustius.

5. f.111r-120r: [Epigrammata, books 1-14, and Liber Speculatorum, 2-28] / Marcus Valerius Martialis.

6. f.121r-124v: [Commentary on Martial].

7. f.127r-150v: Raptus Proserpinae / Claudius Claudianus.

8. f.151r-159v: [Cato maior de senectute, XIV.50 - XXII.85] / Marcus Tullius Cicero.

9. f.160r-163v, 170r-v: [Somnium Scipionis, books 2-21] / Marcus Tullius Cicero.

10. f.164r-165v, 169v: [Formula vita honestae] / Martin of Braga.

11. f.166r-169r: [Fragmentary text] / Secundus.

12. f.171r-172v: [Fragmentary commentary on Secundus].

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 172 leaves; [1-172]: modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout: Written in about 20-25 long lines.

Script: Written in a variety of humanistic cursive hands, in part by Gibertus (f. 25r).

Decoration: Red initials, some decorated with faces, capitals stroked in red.

Binding: Leather, possibly 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), ca. 1471 (f. 150v). A later hand added the date 1483 (f. 120r).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement A (5), The Library Chronicle 37 (1971) p. 109-110 (Ms. Latin 259).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1262

Contains:

Virgil.

Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. Bellum Catilinae. Selections

Martial. Epigrammata. Selections

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato maior de senectute.

Martin, of Braga, Saint, approximately 515-579 or 580. Formula vitae honestae.

Claudianus, Claudius.

Secundus, of Athens, active 2nd century.

OCLC:

263936993