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Anthology of excerpts from L. Annaei Seneca and other theological texts

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Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Cod. Ms. Morbio 1 a

Meyer, Wilhelm: Die Handschriften in Göttingen, Bd. 3: Nachlässe von Gelehrten, orientalische Handschriften. Handschriften im Besitz von Institutionen und Behörden. Register zu Band 1–3 (Verzeichniss der Hss. im Preussischen Staate 1,3), Berlin 1894, p. 498 (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)

Remarks by the Editor

Translated from German, with additions, by Pannini.

General Information

Title Anthology of excerpts from L. Annaei Seneca and other theological texts
Shelfmarks Cod. Ms. Morbio 1 a
Former Shelfmarks C.m.h.l. 257 (?)
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Southern littera textualis, written by a single hand except for the excerpt from Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi (fol. 4r), which is written by a second, probably later hand. There are also some marginalia in a cursive script throughout the fragment, and later marginalia at the bottom of fol. 5r and 25r.
General Remarks

Water damage

Original Condition

Page Height 175 mm
Page Width 125 mm
Height of Written Area 123 mm
Width of Written Area 85 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 85 mm
Number of Lines 22
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling ink ruled
Numbering

Modern ff. 1–25; there are also signs of a previous pencil numeration at the beginning of each quire: at fol. 1r the number 108, at fol. 11r the number 118, at fol. 21r the number 128 and at fol. 25r the number 132. The third quire displays also an additional numeration of the folia, traced with pencil, which starts with 1 at fol. 21r and ends with 5 at 25r.

Current Condition

Extent ff. 25
Dimensions at least 175 x 125 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment is composed of three quires: 110 (fol. 1–10), 210 (fol. 11–20), 35 (fol. 21–25) and it shows signs of a repair to reinforce the binding. On the first leaf someone noted “C.m.h.l. 257”, probably a previous shelfmark.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Color red is used to mark the incipit of the different excerpts with rubricae and a larger initial; one-line penwork initials in red are used to mark the beginning of the sentence.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons L. Annaei Senecae
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title L. Annaei Senecae, De vita beata (Dialogorum libri XII)
    • Content Description

      ff. 1r–6r

      Quotations from De vita beata.
    • Edition BREPOLis, Library of Latin Texts http://clt.brepolis.net/llta/Browse/Works/Details?id=f3b2096c-afcc-441c-9323-5a737f440f6b
    • Remarks

      The text differs significantly from the edition.
  • Content Item
    • Persons L. Annaei Senecae
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title L. Annaei Senecae, De constantia sapientis (Dialogorum libri XII)
    • Content Description

      ff. 6r–10v

      Quotations from De constantia sapientis
    • Edition BREPOLis, Library of Latin Texts http://clt.brepolis.net/llta/Browse/Works/Details?id=cbcef14b-03e9-4173-9d52-5009d31a6067
    • Remarks

      The text differs significantly from the edition.
  • Content Item
    • Persons L. Annaei Senecae
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title L. Annaei Senecae, De clementia
    • Content Description

      ff. 10v–12r

      Quotations from De clementia
    • Edition BREPOLis, Library of Latin Texts http://clt.brepolis.net/llta/Browse/Works/Details?id=64553c83-45e1-45d1-963a-4d2e591a67da
    • Remarks

      The text differs significantly from the edition.
  • Content Item
    • Persons L. Annaei Senecae
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title L. Annaei Senecae, [De prudentia]
    • Content Description

      ff. 12r–14v

      Beginning of a text, De prudentia (?), attributed to Seneca.
  • Content Item
    • Persons L. Annaei Senecae
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title L. Annaei Senecae, De Beneficiis
    • Content Description

      ff. 14v–20v

      Quotations from De Beneficiis
    • Edition BREPOLis, Library of Latin Texts http://clt.brepolis.net/llta/Browse/Works/Details?id=3402bc10-4f34-43e3-af44-d2da0db4811b
    • Remarks

      The text differs significantly from the edition.
  • Content Item
    • Persons Bernard of Clairvaux
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola beati Bernardi de re familiari
    • Content Description

      ff. 21r–24v

      Complete letter from Bernard of Clairvaux ad Raimundum dominum Castri Ambruosii.
    • Edition Patrologia Latina, 182, 647–651
  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Hugh of Fouilloy, De duodecim abusivis claustri and Pseudo-Cyprianus, De duodecim abusivis saeculi
    • Content Description

      ff. 24v–25r

      Excerpt from De duodecim abusivis claustri from book II of De claustro animae by Hugh of Fouilloy, first 7 lines.

      Excerpt from the incipit of De duodecim abusivis saeculi by Pseudo-Cyprianus, following five lines.
    • Edition Hellmann Sigmund, Pseudo-Cyprianus de XII abusivis saeculi, Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1909
  • Content Item
    • Persons Gregorius Magnus
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi
    • Content Description

      f. 25r

      Excerpt from book IV, chapter XLIII
    • Edition Patrologia latina, 77, 401
    • Remarks

      The text differs from the edition.

History

Provenance

Previous owner: Carlo Morbio (VIAF; DBI)
Persons and Institutions Private collection
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