Manuscript, probably from Normandy, of the complete works of Horace.
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two originally separate parts:
(i) containing 'Carmina' (folio 1), 'Epodi' (folio 41), and 'Carmen saeculare' (folio 50); and
(ii) containing 'De arte poetica' (folio 51), 'Epistolae' (folio 58), and 'Sermones' (folio 81).
It presents basically a Ψ text, most closely related to δ (Brit.Mus.Harl.MS.2725, 9th century) and π (Paris.lat.10310, 9th century), with some contamination from Ξ bringing it into occasional agreement with [?] (Paris.lat.7973, 9th-10th century), [?] (Paris.lat.8213, late 12th century), and other recentiores.
Headings and initials (some ornamental) in red. Different hands wrote (i) and (ii) (other slight differences are probably due to change of pen).
The second folio corresponds to that of a manuscript of Leicester Abbey (number 574 in the late 15th-century catalogue edited by M R James in ‘Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society’, xxi), but this means little in a poetical text and this manuscript has no English connections.
On the inside front cover is a late 18th-century pencil note in French on the order of the poems, and the pressmark [?]. On folio iv verso is the note `ce manuscrit est du commencement du quatorzième siècle. Van Praet`, presumably by Joseph B B van Praet, the bibliographer.
Dates
- Creation: 11th century-early 12th century.
Creator
- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (lyric poet and satirist) (Author, Person)
Extent
1 Volumes (iv (paper) + 114 + iv (paper) folios.)
Language of Materials
Latin
Arrangement
Collation: 1-3⁸, 4-6⁸ (3 and 6 in each are half sheets), 7², 8-10⁸, 11⁶, 12-14⁸, 15⁸ (4 and 5 are half sheets), 16². Signatures in the lower margin of the last verso of gatherings 1([?]), 4([?]), and 8-16 (F-0). Pricking with a triangular awl in the outer margins (not preserved in gatherings 8-16). Ruling with a hard point, each sheet separately ruled on the hair side. 1 column. 38 lines in gathering 1, 36 in 2-7, 33 in 8-15, 36 in 16. Ruled area 175-180 x 70 millimetres in gatherings 1-7, 175-180 x 80 millimetres in 8-16. Secundo folio: `acer et mauripeditis’.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Vellum. Limp-parchment binding with remains of thongs.
Custodial History
The manuscript was acquired by the Advocates’ Library before circa 1825.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Existence and Location of Copies
Microfilm available: Mf.Sec.MSS.837.
Bibliography
‘Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society’, xxi (1940), 14: `Ode Oracii in quaternis`.
Physical Description
0.00 linear metresiv (paper) + 114 + iv (paper) folios.133.00 x 220.00 millimetres
Dimensions
133.00 x 220.00 millimetres
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 28 01 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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