Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLQ 33

Biblissima+ Identifier: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q147990

Digitisations

IIIF Manifest

IIIF Drag and Drop Icon

Full digitisation

Contents

Data Source: Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections


  • Part 1 contains: (ff. 2r-56r) De inventione / Cicero. - (f. 57v) Rhitmus de communione et differentia rhetoricae ac dialecticae / Fulbert of Chartres. - (f. 58r-v) Somnium Scipionis / Cicero. Incomplete. - Empty: f. 1r (except for ownership note)
    Part 2 contains: (f. 59v) Solution in verse of an arithmetic problem, with pen drawing. - (ff. 60r-61v) Satyrae / Persius. Excerpt. - Empty: f. 56v-57r, 59r.
    Part 3 contains: (ff. 73r-75r) De ave Phoenice / Lactantius. - (ff. 76r-82v) Ars grammatica. - (f. 83r) Regula formatarum. - (ff. 84r-111v) Partitiones duodecim versuum Aeneidos principalium / Priscian. - (f. 112r) De grammatica / Dicuil. Excerpt. - (ff. 112v-114v) Technopaegnion / Ausonius. Excerpts. - (f. 114v) De bello civili / Lucan. Excerpt (Book 2, vs. 380-391). - (ff. 115r-116r) De ponderibus et mensuris / Pseudo-Priscian. - (ff. 116v-121v) De figuris numerorum / Priscian. - (ff. 121v-127v) Praeexercitamina / Priscian. - (ff. 128r-131v)(ff. 128r-130r) Commentarius de metris Terentianis / Rufinus Antiochensis. - (ff. 130r-131v) Commentarius de numeris oratorum / Rufinus Antiochensis. - (ff. 131v-134r) Carmina. - (ff. 134v-135v) Grammaticalia. - (ff. 136r-145r) Periegesis / Dionysius of Alexandria. - (ff. 145v-155v) Liber medicinalis / Serenus Sammonicus. - (ff. 156r-159r) Disticha Catonis. - (f. 159r-v) De philomela versus. - (ff. 160r-171r) Ars grammatica. Incomplete. - (ff. 171r-172v) Grammaticalia. - (f. 173r) Recipe for making green colour. - (ff. 173v-174v) De alfabeto.
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    9th century
    10th century
    11th century

    Titre(s) :
    Composite manuscript, three parts (Latin)
    De inventione
    Rhetorica
    Rhitmus de communione et differentia rhetoricae ac dialecticae
    Somnium Scipionis
    Solutio poetica problematis arithmetici
    Satirae
    Satyrae
    De ave Phoenice
    Ars grammatica
    Regula formatarum
    Partitiones duodecim versuum Aeneidos principalium
    De grammatica
    Technopaegnion
    De bello civili
    Pharsalia
    De ponderibus et mensuris
    De figuris numerorum
    Praeexercitamina
    Commentarium de metris Terentianis et de compositione et de numeris oratorum
    Carmina
    Grammaticalia
    Periegesis
    Liber medicinalis
    Disticha Catonis
    De philomela versus
    Praecepta ad pigmenta facienda
    Ad viridem colorem faciendum
    Versus de alfabeto
    1. (ff. 1-58) De inventione / Cicero, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 59-61) Satyrae / Persius, and other text(s). - And other part(s), VLQ 33

    Langue(s) des textes : latin

Participants

Former owners

Formerly part of

Notes

Data Source: Bibale

  • CICERO ; PERSIUS ; PRISCIANUS ; etc.
  • Exécution / Copié. Manuscrit d'origine française, peut-être d'Auxerre.

Data Source: Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections

  • Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague).
  • Textual: (ff. 60r-61v) Only prologue. - (ff. 73r-75r) Attributed to Lactantius, but probably not written by him. - (ff. 76r-82v) Composed of excerpts from older grammar books. - (f. 83r) Decree formulated at the Council of Nicaea concerning the Litterae formatae, followed by the Greek alphabet with numerical signs. Also with a 10th-century commentary. - (ff. 84r-111v) Parsing by question and answer of the first twelve lines of the Aeneis, to be used for the school teaching of grammar. - (ff. 131v-134r) Contains poems by various authors (Ausonius, Pseudo-Martial etc.). - (ff. 136r-145r) Latin translation of Dionysius's Periegesis by Priscian. - (ff. 171r-172v) Excerpts from orthographical texts by various authors. - (ff. 173v-174v) Poem dealing with all letters of the Latin alphabet. According to the manuscript the poem written by "a certain Scot" ("versus cuiusdam Scotti de alfabeto"). Incipit: "A. Principium vocis veterumque inventio mira / Nomen habens domini sum felix voce pelasga ...".
  • Illustration (part 1): Coloured drawing with armoured woman (Rethorica) and two men, illustrating Cicero's De inventione; cf. Mütherich 1971.

Bibliography

These bibliographical references have been processed and may include links to online versions.

Life cycle of this document

Data sources