Terence, Comedies; Germany, 10th century, late, or 11th century, first half

Title

Terence, Comedies; Germany, 10th century, late, or 11th century, first half

Shelfmark

MS. Auct. F. 6. 27

Place of origin

Germany

Date

10th century, late, or 11th century, first half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + 112 + iii leaves

Hands

Five distinct hands, A (fols. 1r-8v), B (fols. 9–22), C (foot of 22v), D (fols. 23r-5v), E (fols. 55r-end)

Decoration

Initials, defaced.

Binding

Post-1600 (19th-century (?)) binding.

Acquisition

Purchased from Payne & Foss on 19 November 1819, for £10 10s.

Provenance

Adelheit, Hedwich and Matthilt: late 10th or 11th century inscription 'Adelheit. Hedwich. Matthilt curiales adulescentulę unum par amicitię' (fol. 112v; the Summary Catalogue read 'par sunt'). Claudia Villa, La 'lectura Terentii' (1984), 103ff, suggested these could be identified as Adelheid (Adelaide), d. 1043, daughter of Otto II and Theophanu, later abbess of Quelingburg (999), later of Gandersheim (1039); Matilda of Germany (d. 1025), founder of Brauweiler; and Hedwig of Swabia (d. 994). Villa further suggested that the manuscript may have once been at Gandersheim Abbey, where Otto II's daughters were educated. See also Constant J. Mews, The lost love letters of Heloise and Abelard (1999, second edition 2008), pp. 367–68 n. 119.

Augsburg, Nunnery of St Ursula (?): inscription 'Iste liber T. monasterij sanct augusta' (fol. 1r), read in the Summary Catalogue as 'monasterij sanct[e Ursule martyris in ??] augusta'.

Michael von Pfullendorf: inscription 'accomodatus M. Michaeli de Fullendorff secretarij domini Regis romanorum', c. 1450 (fol. 1r)

Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach, Biblioteca Ebneriana, Nuremberg: catalogued in Christophori Tehophili de Murr, Memorabilia bibliothecarum publicarum Norimbergensium et universitatis altdorfinae (1788), pt. 2, pp. 135–37 (Codices in forma quarta, no. 5); Ebner sale no. 384.