Composite volume containing four fragmentary manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries, all of uncertain origin.
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) `Synonyma` by Pseudo-Cicero, beginning in the middle of the article `Domuit`. This manuscript differs considerably, both in number of articles and verbally, from the printed texts. On folios 10-11 is an 18th-century note on the bibliography of this work. (Folio 2.)
(ii) Fragment of a mediaeval work on logic, listing types of argument (intrinsecus: a comparatione, a parte, a nota; extrinsecus: a coniugatis, a genere, a specie, ab adiunctis, a simili, a dissimili, ab antecedentibus, a consequentibus, a contrariis), beginning `A comparatione quae est triplex, a maiori, a minori, a pari’. (Folio 12.)
(iii) `Topica` by Cicero, sections 1-36 ‘ex uerbo ut’. (Folio 12 verso.)
(iv) Pseudo-Augustine, `Categoriae decem`, sections 131 ‘recipere’ - 176. (Folio 18.)
In (i) there are plain initials in red and gold. The title of (iii) is in silver. Initials in (iv) have not been added, (i) is written in a small 13th-century hand, (ii) and (iii) in a 12th-century hand, (iv) in a different 12th-century hand.
Folios 1 and 26 consist of the lower half of a leaf cut in two, each half being folded round the first and last gatherings. The original sequence is 26 verso, 1 recto, 1 verso, 26 recto, and the leaf is from the Sanctorale of a late 11th century noted breviary, 21 January - 2 February (with considerable divergences from printed pre-tridentine breviaries). Initials and rubrics in red. Pricking with a triangular awl in the outer margins; ruling with a hard point; 2 columns; width of the leaf 260 millimetres, of each column 84 millimetres.
On the inside front cover is the number 2796.
Dates
- Creation: 12th century-13th century.
Extent
1 Volumes (26 folios.)
Language of Materials
Latin
Arrangement
Collation: 1 leaf, 1⁸, stub, paper leaf folded and sewn in sideways, 2⁶, stub, 3⁸, 1 leaf. No signatures or catchwords. Pricking: in (i) with a round awl in the outer margins, from first recto to last verso; in (ii), (iii) with a triangular awl, apparently just outside the text-frame, from last verso to first recto; in (iv) with a flat awl in the outer margins, from last verso to first recto. Ruling with a hard point. 1 column. 29 lines in (i), 22 elsewhere. Ruled area; in (i) 125 x 91 millimetres, elsewhere 143 x 102 millimetres. Secundo folio: `Facetus: uenustus, urbanus`.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Vellum. Binding of white paper boards covered with rough brown paper.
Custodial History
The volume 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.860.
Bibliography
Cicero. `Topica`, edited by A S Wilkins, ‘M.T. Ciceronis Rhetorica’, volume ii (Oxford, 1903).
Pseudo-Augustine. `Categoriae decem`, edited by L Minio-Paluello, ‘Aristoteles Latinus’, I 1-5 (Bruges, 1961), pages 133-175.
Physical Description
0.00 linear metres26 folios.120.00 x 168.00 millimetres
Dimensions
120.00 x 168.00 millimetres
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 03 02 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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