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• Résumé : The copy of the Thebaid by the Roman poet, Statius (c. 45-c. 96), was donated to Corpus Christi College by the scholar, poet and diplomat, Daniel Rogers (c. 1538-91). The manuscript of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century is either French or English. It has some notations in the margins. This epic poem is about the attack on the city of Thebes by the seven leaders of Argos, and is a reworking of an ancient Greek epic now mostly lost. The text was of interest in the Middle Ages, used as a source for the twelfth-century French romance, Le Roman de Thèbes, and by Boccaccio and Chaucer.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, français

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Publius Papinius Statius - author

  1r-83v - Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais

  Note : (1r) Liber I

  incipit : (1r) Fraternas acies

  Note : (8r) Liber II . With argument

  incipit : (8r) Ut maya genitus

  Note : (15r) Liber III. With argument

  Note : (22r) Liber IV. No argument

  Note : (30r) Liber V. No argument

  Note : (37r) Liber VI. No argument

  Note : (45v) Liber VII. No argument

  Note : Ends imperfectly with line 488

  explicit : (49v) asspexit achivos

  Note : A quire gone

  Note : (50r) Liber VIII. 1-418 gone. Begins 419

  incipit : (50r) Nec locus

  Note : (53r) Liber IX. No argument

  Note : (60v) Liber X

  Note : (69r) Liber XI

  Note : (75v) Liber XII

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (83r) referentur honores

  rubric : (83r) Pampinii Surculi Thebaidos lib. XIImus explicit

  Note : Twelve lines

  Note : (83r) Adsociat profugum tideo primus polinicem...Argiam flentem narrat duodenus et ignem

  rubric : (83r) Explicit iste liber poscat sua dona magister

  Note : On f. 83v a scribble, xiii

  Note : (83v) Ascum trecher amy Johan de powey (? fowey) le sun