Transmission of the Latin Classics

Manuscripts of the Latin Classics

[Transmission of the Latin Classics @OxGTLC]

Hello, everyone. In anticipation of the forthcoming Oxford Guide to the Transmission of the Latin Classics, which will cover the transmission of every Latin author and text, with an independent transmission, of primarily secular interest, up to sixth century,

[Transmission of the Latin Classics @OxGTLC]

Juvenal and Horace!

[Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman]

I'm currently photographing SJC MS 192, formerly owned by Ben Jonson. It is full of manicules, like this one on f. 52v. The whole manuscript will be available to view on Digital Bodleian soon. You can read its catalogue entry here: https://t.co/Ivpynw6gOO

[Transmission of the Latin Classics @OxGTLC]

Gellius!

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

We have a job vacancy for a Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts

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[Pieter Beullens @PieterBeullens]

Coming up for auction: partial 12th-c leaf of the so-called paraphrasis Themistiana of Aristotle's Categories. The Latin version used to be wrongly ascribed to Augustine. Attractive marginalia. #fragmentology

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Building with two arcades under which Horace and Maecenas are depicted

BnF MS Latin 8214; Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina ; Epodon ; Carmen saeculare ; Ars poetica ; Epistolae ; Sermones; 11th century (second half); France (Midi); f.1r @GallicaBnF

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Paws for thought

BnF MS Latin 8214; Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina ; Epodon ; Carmen saeculare ; Ars poetica ; Epistolae ; Sermones; 11th century (second half); France (Midi); f.13r @GallicaBnF

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Splendid initial 'F'(raternas acies) at the beginning of Bk I of Statius' Thebaid

BnF Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse; Ms. 808; Stacii Pampinii Surculi Thebaidos libri XII; 12th century; f.1r @GallicaBnF

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Ovid writing at his desk, beneath the initial 'I'(n) of Bk I of the Metamorphoses

BnF MS Latin 8016; P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoseon libri quindecim; 15th century (c.1485 CE); Italy (Rome); f.1r @GallicaBnF

[Ennius @red_loeb]

A horse's head in the margin above line 476 of Bk II of the Georgics:

"quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore"

BnF MS Latin 7926; Publius Vergilius Maro, Ecloga, Georgica et Aeneis; 9th century (2nd half); Abbry of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre (France); f.34r @GallicaBnF

[Ennius @red_loeb]

"Is there life outside the text?"

BnF MS Latin 7501; Priscianus Caesariensis, Ars grammatica, sive Institutiones Grammaticae, libri I-XVIII, Opera minora; 9th century (3rd quarter); Abbey Saint-Pierre de Corbie; f.90v @GallicaBnF

[KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @SpColl_KULeuven]

Pliny the Elder's "Naturalis historia" can be considered the 1st #encyclopaedia. The work was hugely popular. It appeared in print from the incunabulum period onwards. Several translations also followed, of which Special Collections holds this Dutch edition from 1733 (RA67683).

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Astrologia teaching the science of the stars

BnF MS Latin 7900A; Various including Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Mercuri et Philologiae (ff.112-155); 9th century (end) or 10th century (beginning); Northern Italy (Milan?) f.151v @GallicaBnF

[Pieter Beullens @PieterBeullens]

Former pastedown is a leaf from an attractively written 11th-c MS of Servius' commentary on Vergil's Aeneid (bk 6) (@subugoe, App. dipl. 10 E I 27) #fragmentology
https://t.co/qgihViT20P

[Ennius @red_loeb]

In the margin it is remarked that there is a note from Friedrich Nietzsche:

"gedruckt bei Beda ed. Basiliens. tom. I p. 156"

Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F V 17; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, lib. 1-2; 11th century; f.38v (https://t.co/d9jZDfFiUf)

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Stylus and wax tablets

BnF MS Latin 5748; Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Catilinae coniuratio, & Bellum Iugurthinum; 10th century (2nd half); France (North); f.1v @GallicaBnF
Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; c.1150 CE; Southern France ?; f.46v

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Representation of the copyist/author holding a stylus and wax tablets

BnF MS Latin 5748; Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Catilinae coniuratio, & Bellum Iugurthinum; 10th century (2nd half); France (North); f.1v @GallicaBnF

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Initial 'E'(x) formed of the author writing the text on wax tablets

Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, NKS 218 4°; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; c.1150 CE; Southern France ?; f.46v

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Another zonal map for the collection

BL Harley MS 2652; Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; 11th century; France or Germany; f.48r @BLMedieval

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Zonal map in black, with Orkneys

BL Harley 2772; Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, fragment; Germany; 11th century; f.70v @BLMedieval