Cicero, De Natura Deorum Electronic version according to TEI P5.1 Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments

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 Odense Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA Musik L 42 129 Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1301-1400 Front cover r Latin De Natura Deorum Cicero Liber Secundus, 49-51 (front cover). O. Plasberg, De Natura Deorum. Leipzig/Teubner, 1917. pp. 68-69. Some text is missing due to the way the fragment was cut and folded. Back cover v Latin De Natura Deorum Cicero Liber Secundus, 70-73 (back cover). O. Plasberg, De Natura Deorum. Leipzig/Teubner, 1917. pp. 77-78. Some text is missing due to the way the fragment was cut and folded. Parchment 1 partial leaf157 x 407 mm

The fragment is cut form the bottom half of a bifolium, preserving four partial columns of text.  The text is faded and damaged from handling. 

Cursive book hand. Looped l, h, b; d that swings out to the left and then to the right; single-story a.

 "Bassus" added in a 17th century hand on the front cover This manuscript exhibits a linguistic feature that suggests it was written in Italy (consistently using deoro for deorum; sometimes altero for alterum). The pre-Reformation ownership of the L 42 fragments is uncertain. Given that the gradual fragment used for vol. 127 was printed for a Danish diocese, one might surmise a Danish monastic or ecclesiastical provenance for the other medieval parchment fragments of the set, too. The codices was likely dismantled and reused by a provincial stationer-bookseller in the late 16th or early 17th century. Description by: Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 Holck, Jakob Povl. Den Gamle Verdens Magi: Bogsamlingen Fra Herlufsholm På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, 2015.   Holck, Jakob Povl. ‘Herlufsholm-Samlingen På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek Og Forskningspotentialet–Om Forskellige Fund Af Fragmenter’. Studier i Nordisk, nos 2016–2018 (2022): 5–40. Kongsted, Ole. ...‘...Derforuden i et Bundt Endeel Gl. Musicalia, Mutilerede, u-Nyttige Og Af Ingen Importance’. Delaspekter Vedrørende Musikmanuskripterne i Herlufsholm-Samlingen i Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. I Sofie Lene Bak (Red.)“Kildekunst”–Historiske Og Kulturhistoriske Studier. Festskrift Til John T. Lauridsen. Bd 1 (2016): 89–115. O. Plasberg, De Natura Deorum. Leipzig/Teubner, 1917. (Corpus Corporum 12.650).