Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 447

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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, fonds principal, 447
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 447
    • CCCC MS 447
    • Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 447
    • MS 447
  • Held at :
  • Languages : Latin
  • Author : Plutarque (0046?-0120?)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in sloping Italic hand
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 2 + 88
  • Dimensions :
    • 120 x 181
  • Codicological details :
    • 20 lines to a page
    • ff. a + i-ii + 1-88 + b
    • a(2), 1(10)-8(10) 9(8).

Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 447 contains an early sixteenth-century copy of the Latin translation of Plutarch (c. 46-127), Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae from Book IV of the Moralia. James identified both the script and the parchment as being of Italian origin.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    Intervenants :

    Plutarch - author

    1r-86v - Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae (excerpted from Moralia, book 4)

    Note : The text of ff. 1r-8v has been erased more or less completely

    Note : The volume contains a Latin version of the Quaestiones Romanae and Quaestiones Graecae of Plutarch

    Note : On the early Latin versions see Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. V 203

    Note : The first complete section is on f. 9r

    incipit : (9r) Quid est quod ancillis eadem Matute ingredi fas non est

    Note : (no. 16)

    Note : The Roman questions end 59v

    explicit : (59v) et cognatorum quod bruto accidit

    Note : The Greek continue with no separate title

    incipit : (59v) Qui sunt quos epidauri compodes artinos appellant

    Note : A good many blanks are left in the text as if the archetype were defective. The text of ff. 81r-82v is erased beginning in the question (no. 46)

    incipit : (80v) Quid est quod purgatorem uocant thralian (!)

    Note : The first after the blank is (no. 52)

    incipit : (83r) Quid cause quamobrem elei equas finibus eductas iniri faciunt

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (86v) postea a genere hamasocii liste (άμαξοκυλιστὰι) nominati sunt

    rubric : (86v) Finis

Participant

Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Additions: On f. ir, pasted over, is some writing: and also on f. 88v which is likewise pasted over.

Bibliography

  • S. Delle Donne, « Il codice greco Corpus Christi College 486 di Cambridge : contenuto, organizzazione testuale e legami con l’Italia Meridionale », Revue d'histoire des textes, 9, 2014, p. 375-393

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