Leiden. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLO 46

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  • Anonyme | Liste de folies
    Incipit référence de l'oeuvre : Ke nul bien ne set et nul veut aprendre / ke mut acreit e n'ad dunt tendre / ke taunt donne et rien ne reteint / ke taunt promette et ne donne nient...
    Folio 14rb - 14rb

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  • Part 1 contains: (ff. 2r-6v) Fabulae Aesopeae. Incomplete - (f. 6v) De sobrietate et castitate / Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo. Excerpts. - (ff. 7r-9r) Integumenta Ovidii / John Garland. - (ff. 9r, 13v-14v and 15r) Verse, proverbs, notes. - (f. 9v) De transsubstantiatione. - (ff. 10r-11v) In Tobiam paraphrasis metrica / Matthew of Vendôme. Excerpts. - (ff. 11v-12v) Alexandreis / Walter of Châtillon. Excerpts. - (ff. 12v-13r) Letters / Horace. Excerpts. - (f. 13r-v) Carmen paraeneticum ad Rainaldum / Bernard of Cluny (?). Excerpts. - (f. 15r-v) De assessoribus. Fragment.
    Part 2 contains: (ff. 16r-21r) Chemical recipes. In Latin and Italian. - (ff. 22r-44v and 72r-77v) De transmutatione metallorum / Pseudo-Callisthenes. - (ff. 45r-58v) Uterque alchymiae libellus / Vincent of Beauvais. - (ff. 59r-71r) Various cabbalistic texts. - (ff. 77v-111v, 123v-152v) Treatises on alchemy, medical and chemical recipies and invocations; in Latin and Italian. - (ff. 112r-123r) Praxis medicinalis / Arnaldus de Villa Nova. Excerpts. - (ff. 165r-192v) Alchemical recipies and texts, in Latin and (added c. 1600?) French. - Empty: 21v, 153r-164v, 190r-191r, 192v.
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    13th century
    16th century

    Titre(s) :
    Composite manuscript, two parts (mostly Latin)
    Fabulae Aesopiae
    Aesopi fabulae
    Aesopian fables
    Romulus Nilantius
    De sobrietate et castitate
    Integumenta Ovidii
    De transsubstantiatione
    In Tobiam paraphrasis metrica
    Alexandreis
    Epistulae
    Carmen paraeneticum ad Rainaldum
    De assessoribus
    Compendium de iure canonico
    De contemptu mundi
    De transmutatione metallorum
    Uterque alchymiae libellus
    Cabbalistic varia
    Praxis medicinalis
    Chartula nostra
    1. (ff. 2-15) Fabulae Aesopiae, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 16-192) De transmutatione metallorum / Pseudo-Callisthenes, and other text(s), VLO 46

    Langue(s) des textes : latin, italien, français

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  • Recueil factice : ff. 2-15 (fin 13e s., écriture proche du ms. Voss. Lat. 4° 93), ff. 16-192 (fin 16e s.). Notice et numérisation du f. : https://socrates.leidenuniv.nl/

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  • sScript: Part 1 written by at least three scribes: 2r-9r (A, but 7r-9r by another hand), 10r-14r (B), 14rb (C). - Part 2 written by one scribe, except for ff. 152r-v, 165r.
  • Also described by Jonas and MMDC.
  • Foliation: Foliated 2-192.
  • Textual: (ff. 2r-6v) From a collection also known as Romulus Nilantius, after its first editor J.F. Nilant (1680-1757). - (f. 9v) Later addition. - (ff. 9r, 13v-14v and 15r) The verse "De generibus stultorum," proverbs and insertions by various scribes in Latin and French. - (f. 13r-v) Poem usually attributed to Bernard of Cluny because it is often found in manuscripts together with his poem "De contemptu mundi". The texts are sometimes confused. - (f. 15r-v) Part of Compendium de iure canonico. - (ff. 16r-21r) In Latin and Italian. - (ff. 45r-58v) Incipit: "Eximii doctoris Magistri Vincencii beluacensis uterque alchymie libellus: et primus est theoricus: Queritur an alchimia sit ars...". - (ff. 77v-111v and 123v-192v) In Latin, French and Italian. Contains, amongst others, Alchymiae practica / Gilgilis.

Bibliography

These bibliographical references have been retrieved as is from the source data.

  • Crespo, Roberto. “Trenta Stoltizie Leidensi.” Romania 108 (1987): 165–82.
  • GUMBERT, Jean-Pierre. “Medieval Manuscripts in French in the Leiden University Library : A Handlist.” In Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature, and Translation. Studies for Keith Val Sinclair. Leiden-New York-Köln: Brill, 1994.
  • Section romane. Notices de Manuscrits Français et Occitans. Dossiers Suspendus. Paris: CNRS-IRHT, 1937.

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