MS. Lat. liturg. b. 16
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no description available
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Physical Description
Decoration
Miniature, fol. 3a (Florence, 15th century, first quarter).
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History
MS. Lat. liturg. b. 16, fol. 2
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The surviving text is part of the Miracula of St Clement, from Gregory of Tours, Liber Miraculorum, in a version with an added prologue beginning 'In (divinis) voluminibus refertur quod secretum regis' (BHL 1855; Mombritius, Sanctuarium, ed. A. Brunet (Paris, 1910), I.344-6). This version is found in several Italian legendaries (e.g. BAV, Ott. lat. 106, printed in Gregory of Tours, Les livres des miracles, ed. G. F. Grégoire (1857), pp. 407-8) and it is likely that our fragment is from such a manuscript. Text of our fragment: 'refertur quod secretum ... namque anteriorum[sic] umbre' (verso; cf. Mombritius 344.49-345.2) and 'eamus inquit dilectissimi fratres ... fidelis suis orationem im|' (recto, cf. Mombritius 346.14-23)
Physical Description
Layout
Originally in 2 columns, as is clear from the quantity of missing text between the recto and verso of the fragment. Ruled with a hard point.
Hand(s)
Late Caroline minuscule: /d/ with straight back; usually long /s/ (rarely short /s/ at word end); ampersand for 'et'; 'straight' form of /r/ after /o/; Italianate abbreviations for 'qui', '-que', '-bus'.
Later additions in a humanist cursive script, written upside down in relation to the main text: ‘Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat’ (There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften) from Epistulae ad Familiaris (Marcus Tullius Cicero ad fam., 4,5) and ‘fecundi calices, quem non fecere disertum?’ (Whom have not brimming goblets made eloquent?) Horace, Epistles, 1,5,19.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Removed from the binding of an unidentified book.
"Found in the library", 1975.
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.