Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 136-139
Notes:
Numbered in a modern hand. Portions of five different MSS have been combined to form the present volume.
Provenance:
front pastedown Liber monasterii montis sancti georgii quem dominus gaspar abbas partim scripsit et partim comparavit per uno florino renensis anno 1472. 1r a hole in the lower margin where a coat of arms has been cut out…typed catalogue: B IV 4
Physical Issues:
Folio
Reproduction:
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The ex libris on the front pastedown, in the same hand as the list of contents, indicates that the five portions of this MS were assembled by 1472, when they were "partly written and partly bought for one Cologne florin" by Abbot Gaspar of S Georgenberg.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
79 ff
Supplied Title:
Humanistic Miscellany
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Front pastedown: list of contents and ex libris dated 1472, both in same hand. Pen trials. This hand seems to be same that wrote the list of contents and ex libris in Fiecht MS 55 (HMML 28818)
Manuscript Part I
Folio:
1
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
1 col. 31-32 lines. Framed.
Script:
humanistic bookhand
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Lombard initials
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1r-1v
Author:
Augustinus Datus
Supplied Title:
Elegantiolae, fragmentum
Status Of Text:
fragment
Rubric:
Ihesus Christus. Eleganciarum clarissimi oratoris et poete Laurenci Valle liber felicibus ac bonis auspiciis incpit.
Incipit:
Credimus iam dudum a plerisque viris et dissertiss
Explicit:
utebatur [. . .].
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
For more on this work see GW 8032-8138. 2r-3v Index, in the same hand as ff. 4r-5v, but refers to a different and much longer work no longer extant in this MS.
Manuscript Part II
Folio:
ff 2-5
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
2 cols., ff. 2r-3v; 1 col., ff. 4r-5v. Variable line count. Ruling not visible. Single gathering of 2 bifolia.
Tam et si dicendi venustas duas in partes preserti
Explicit:
si mandaveris te et doctum et facundum efficient e
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
For more on this work, see Cosenza 2, pp. 1694-1717.
Manuscript Part III
Folio:
ff. 6-41
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
1 col. Variable line count. Framed. Gatherings of 6 bifolia; vertical catchwords on last verso of each.
Script:
gothic cursive (notula)
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
initials never executed
Manuscript Text
Folio:
6r-41v
Supplied Title:
Florilegium gallicum
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
A collection of epitomes found in quite a few MSS, though number and order of epitomes can vary. This MS is not in Anders Gagner, Florilegium Gallicum …(Lund 1936). MS similar to Vatican MS Reginensis lat. 1575, ff. 76r-100r
Manuscript Text
Folio:
6r-13v
Author:
Cicero
Supplied Title:
Tusculanarum disputationum libri quinque, excerpta
illa iacent multa et praeclara relicta. Tusculanar
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
see the edition of the complete work by M. Pohlenz (Stuttgart 1918; reprinted 1967).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
13v-19v
Author:
Aulus Gellius
Supplied Title:
Noctes atticae, excerpta
Rubric:
Incipiunt Excerpta libri Agellii noctium atticarum.
Incipit:
HErodes consularis atticus vir ingenio ameno
Explicit:
si ea quae scimus omnibus fient communia. Excerpta
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
See the edition of the complete work by C. Hosius (Stuttgart 1903; repr. 1967).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
19v-20r
Author:
Cicero
Supplied Title:
Actio in C. Verrem secunda, excerpta
Rubric:
Incipiunt excerpta ciceronis in verrinis.
Incipit:
Abducuntur nonnumquam homines a iure
Explicit:
inducte atque aparte. Explicit.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
See the edition in M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, ed. William Peterson, 2nd ed. (Oxford 1917; reprinted 1965).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
20r-27v
Author:
Pseduo-Ennodius
Supplied Title:
Dictio in natali Laurentii episcopi Mediolanensis
Rubric:
Excerpta de libroennodii incipiunt.
Incipit:
Usu rerum inter homines evenit
Explicit:
optata sublimitas. Explicit
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
CPL 1502. Despite the title Excerpta the text here is longer than the one printed in PL 63, 361-364.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
27v-36r
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Supplied Title:
Ad lucilium epistolarum moralium libri viginti, excerpta
Rubric:
Excerpta epistolarum Lucii annei Senece ad Lucillum incipiunt.
Incipit:
Haec in prima epistola sunt. Turpissima est iactur
Explicit:
postquam prostituta est.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
See the edition of L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon, 1965).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
36r-37r
Author:
Martinus Episcopus Baracarensis
Supplied Title:
Formula vitae honestae, excerpta
Rubric:
Martinus episcopus Mironi regi.
Incipit:
Prudentis anime est examinare consilia
Explicit:
Nichil tibi intersit an vires an firms. Explicit.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
CPL 1080. Bloomfield 4457.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
37r-37v
Supplied Title:
Querolus, excerpta
Rubric:
Plautus in Aulularia.
Incipit:
Pecunia est rerum ac sollicitudinum causa
Explicit:
domus una non capit.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
On this anonymous work, loosely based on the Aulularia of Titus Maccius Plautus, see Gunnar Ranstrand, Querolusstudien (Stockholm 1951). Schanz-Hosius 4 (1914) pp. 43-45
Manuscript Text
Folio:
37v-38r
Author:
CENSORINUS
Supplied Title:
De die natali liber, excerpta
Rubric:
Censorinus incipit.
Incipit:
Non quanto quisque plura possidet
Explicit:
nichil praestantius esse deberet.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The complete text is edited by Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig 1867).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
38r-41v
Author:
VALERIUS MAXIMUS
Supplied Title:
Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem, excerpta
Status Of Text:
Excerpts
Rubric:
Exempla collata ex decem libris valerii maximi dictorum et factorum memorabilium.
Incipit:
De serbata aut neglecta relgione. Liber Primus. De
Explicit:
Vini usus olym romanis feminis ignotus [. . .].
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
These excerpts are from the epitome by JULIUS PARIS, ed. C. Kempf in Valerii Maximi Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem (Stuttgart 1888; reprinted 1966), pp. 473-587. This MS should be added to the list in D. Schullian, "Preliminary list of mss.
Manuscript Part IV
Folio:
ff. 42-60
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
1 col. Variable line count. Framed. Collation uncertain. Interlinear and marginal glosses.
Script:
humanistic
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Initials never executed.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
42r-60v
Author:
Cicero
Supplied Title:
Epistulae ad Familiares
Status Of Text:
Excerpts
Rubric:
Marcus Tullius Cicero Imperator Salutem Dat Q. Thermo.
Incipit:
Officium meum erga rhodonem caeteraque mea studia
Explicit:
etiam amicissimum iudicabo. Vale.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The epistles given in this MS are those with the following numbers in the edition of L. Purser (Oxford 1964): II xviii, III I, II xix, III ii, III xiii, IV v, IV vi, IV viii, IV x, IV xi, IV xii, IV xv, Viii, V v, V vii, V ix, V xi, V xiii, V xiv, V xv…
Manuscript Part V
Folio:
ff. 61-79
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
1 col. Variable line count. Framed. Collation difficult to discern; center stitching visible after f. 76.
Script:
notula
Number Scribes:
2
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
initials never executed.
Notes:
Two different cursive hands, ff. 61-71, ff. 72-79.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
61r-79r
Supplied Title:
Regimen sanitatis
Status Of Text:
Incomplete
Incipit:
Anglorum regi scripsit tota scola Salerni. Si vis
Explicit:
Terra frigida yempis meloncolia frigida et sicca s
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The scribe stopped copying in the middle of a line. This poem, sometimes attributed to JOANNES DE MEDIOLANO, was known in many recensions during the Middle Ages. This text is shorter than the one ed by Salvatore de Renzi … 79v not filmed.
