Gesta Apollonii in verse
dialogue between Strabo and Saxo
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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0169
Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title <i>Gesta Apollonii</i> in verse
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0169
Page/Folio Reference fol. 233r-234v
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Flanders
Date of Origin 12th century
Script, Hands
Late Carolina, multiple hands.
Original Condition
Page Height 330 mm
Page Width 225 mm
Height of Written Area 302 – 307 mm
Width of Written Area 202 – 210 mm
Number of Columns 3
Width of Columns 55 – 70 mm
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling No longer visible.
Numbering
Modern foliation in outer margin in pen and pencil, using Arabic numerals.
More about the Condition
Interlinear glosses are used throughout the text to indicate whether Strabo or Saxo is speaking.
Current Condition
Extent 2 leaves (bound)
Dimensions 330 x 225 mm
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
No decoration visible.
Content
- Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title <i>Gesta Apollonii</i> in verse
- Content Description
Dialogue between Strabo and Saxo.
- Edition Dümmler, Ernst Ludwig, ed., Gesta Apollonii: regis Tyrii metrica ex codice Gandensi (Halle: Handel, 1877), 3-20.
- Remarks
Short novel on the life of Apollonius of Tyre, in verse.
History
Provenance
Host volume was kept by St Peter's Abbey (Ghent) from the 12th century onwards. The volume was then kept by (a member of) the noble family Van der Heyden dit de la Bruyère from the 16th century onwards.
Host Volume
Title Hieronymus Stridonensis, <i>Commentarii in Ezechielem</i>
Date of Origin/Publication 11th century
Place of Origin/Publication possibly Flanders
Shelfmark Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0169
Page/Folio Reference: fol. 1-232
Persons Hieronymus Stridonensis (author of host volume)
Remarks
Current binding stems from 18th century. As the fragment is younger than its host volume, it can be assumed that the fragments were put together at a later date.
Bibliography
- Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 73.
- https://www.google.be/books/edition/Gesta_Apollonii_regis_Tyri_metrica_ex_co/AWkCAAAAQAAJDümmler, Ernst Ludwig, ed., Gesta Apollonii: regis Tyrii metrica ex codice Gandensi (Halle: Handel, 1877)