Works of Virgil with glosses (The Oxford Virgil); French, 9th century, first half
MS. Auct. F. 2. 8
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Description
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Title
Works of Virgil with glosses (The Oxford Virgil); French, 9th century, first half
Shelfmark
MS. Auct. F. 2. 8
Place of origin
French; Bernard Bischoff attributes the script to the Benedictine abbey of St Germain-des-Prés
Date
9th century, first half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
226 leaves
Hands
Caroline minuscule. Bischoff (Katalog, vol. 2, p. 358, no. 3771) interprets the glosses as written mostly by 9th- and 10th-century hands. He also notes glossing hands as late as the 11th (fol. 210v) and 12th centuries (fol. 67r).
Some glosses are written in Tironian notes. See David Ganz, Carolingian manuscripts with substantial glosses in Tironian notes, in Mittelalterliche volkssprachige Glossen (Heidelberg, 2001), pp. 101–107.
Decoration
Minor initials beginning works, two lines, in red, green, and yellow, e.g. fol. 54r. (Pächt and Alexander i. 415)
Versals coloured in red or yellow; sometimes also used for the first letter of a gloss (e.g. fol. 10r).
Rubricated titles.
Mappa mundi illustrating Georgics 1.233, fol. 18v.
Topographic sketch illustrating Aeneid 1.159, fol. 56v.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard.
Provenance
Ricardus comes (late 9th or 10th century): inscribed, fol. 111r; marginal note, fol. 110v.
Jacques Mentel (1597–1671): inscribed, Ex biblioth. MSS Jo. Jacobi Mentelij Nobilis Gallj, fol. 1r.
Lent to Nicolaas Heinsius around 1660; his Codex Mentelianus primus.
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Title
The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid of Virgil
Shelfmark
MS. Auct. F. 2. 8
Summary
The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid of Virgil, wanting Ecl. 1. 1-55: with old Latin glosses partly in Tironian notes: and parts of the Commentary of Servius. The 'Codex Mentelianus primus' of Heinsius.
Date
Early 10th century
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
233 Leaves
Custodial history
'Ex biblioth. MSS. Jo. Jacobi Mentelij Nobilis Gallj': lent by Mentel to Nicolas Heinsius in about 1660.
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Collection contents
Bernard Latin
The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid of Virgil
