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• Résumé : As an important witness to the twelfth-century interest in texts of classical Roman and late antique authors, CCCC MS 71 contains Macrobius, Saturnalia, Macrobius's commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, and Apuleius, Opera philosophica. The Apuleius texts belong to the third group of manuscripts of these works as classified by Beaujeu. The added thirteenth-century list of contents on the flyleaf is in a special form characteristic of the Abbey of St Albans. It is likely that the book was made at the abbey, although there is no firm evidence it was there until the thirteenth century when the contents were listed. Thomson, in his study of St Albans manuscripts, dates the book to c. 1150. On the flyleaf a fifteenth-century note values the book at xx s.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Macrobius - author

  1r-85v - Macrobius, Saturnalia

  Note : The title of no. 1 has been added in red by a xvth cent. scholar who has also written headlines and some marginal notes. Is it Gunthorp?

  rubric : (1r) Macrobii theodosii viri consulis et illustris conuiuiorum primi diei saturnaliorum incipit prologus

  incipit : (1r) Multas uariasque res

  rubric : (1v) Argumentum

  incipit : (1v) Saturnalibus apud Vectium

  Note : (27v) Liber II (III)

  Note : (43r) At the end is a supply of an omitted passage

  Note : (43v) Liber III (IV)

  Note : Ends (Liber VII)

  explicit : (85v) lunari repugnat humori

  rubric : (85v) Macrobii Theodosii viri consulis et illustris conuiuiorum tertii diei

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero) - author

  85v-87v - Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero), Somnium Scipionis

  rubric : (85v) Incipit somnium publii. Scipionis Affricani minoris exceptum ex libro vito Marci Tullii Ciceronis de Re Publica

  incipit : (85v) Cum in affricam

  explicit : (87v) somno solutus sum

  rubric : (87v) Explicit Somnium

  
  

  87v-128r - Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis

  rubric : (87v) Incipit commentum macrobii super illud

  incipit : (87v) Inter platonis et ciceronis libros

  Note : Blank spaces are left for the diagrams

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (128r) philosophie continetur integritas

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Apuleius - author

  128r-132r - Apuleius, De Platone et eius dogmate, book 1 || Apuleius de dogmate Platonis liber I

  Note : (Hildebrand, p. 201)

  incipit : (128r) (P)latoni habitudo corporis

  
  

  132r-137v - Apuleius, De Platone et eius dogmate, book 2 || Eiusdem liber II

  Note : (Hildebrand, p. 212)

  incipit : (132r) (H)inc moralis philosophie caput est faustine

  explicit : (137v) tali fine moderetur

  
  

  137v-144v - Apuleius, De mundo || Idem de mundo

  Note : Hildebrand, p. 264

  incipit : (137v) (C)onsideranti michi faustine

  explicit : (144v) dedit atque permisit

  
  

  144v-150r - Apuleius, De deo Socratis

  rubric : (144v) Apulei affri madaurensis philosophi. platonici de deo socratis liber incipit

  incipit : (145r) (Q)ui me uoluistis dicere extempore

  Note : Hildebrand, p. 187

  explicit : (150r) sirenas audiit nec accessit

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Adelbodus - author

  150r-151v - Adelbodus, Epistola ad Gerbertum || Adelbodus ad Gerbertum

  incipit : (150r) Domino silvestro summo pontifici et philosopho G. A. uite felicitatem ... Macrobius super somnium scipionis ubi loquitur

  Note : (P. L. CXL 1104)

  Note : (150v) One diagram inserted, spaces left for the others, (f. 151r)

  explicit : (151v) sed etiam invenitur idem in puteorum profunditatibus. Vale.

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) - author

  151v-151v - Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II), Epistola ad Adelbodum

  incipit : (151v) (G)erbertusAdelbodo nunc usque dilecto ... In his ergo geometricis figuris

  Note : Ends unfinished

  explicit : (151v) sollertia autem geometrice

  Note : See Olleris, Oeuvres de Gerbert 1867, p. 477

  Note : See also Bubnov, Gerberti opera mathematica 1899, pp. xxv, 42, 300. The manuscript is used for the text of this edition