Parchment, 146 ff. (11×IV + V + 6×IV), c. 19,5 × 13,5 cm; France (?), saec. XII/XIII
The modern foliation of the manuscript is incorrect after f. 121: folio-number 122 has not been used and the leaves are numbered from 1-121 followed by 123-147. In this facsimile the correct, electronically genererated foliation is used, in the survey below followed by the manual folio-number in parentesis:
1r-63r: Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistolae, lib. I-IX (1r-62v). Carmen I.1-12 (62v-63r)(1r: "Incipit liber Sidonii claremontensis")
63r-64r: Iubilus de nomine Iesu (cf. Migne PL 184, col. 1317-1320). - 64r: Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae, lib. III. metrum ix.
64v: blank
65r-70v: Apuleius, De deo Socratis (70v: "Explicit Apuleius de natura demonum")
71r-88v: Bernardus Silvestris, Cosmographia (71r-78r: Megacosmus; 78r-88v: Microcosmus)(88v: "Explicit philosophia magistri Bernardi Silvestris feliciter Amen")
89r-98r: Asclepius (98r: "Explicit Liber Mercurii")
98v: blank
99r-128r ("129"): Dictaminis eruditio (99r: "Incipit dictaminis eruditio a magistro Bernardo diligenter composita")
- 117v: "Incipit doctrina privilegiorum"
- 120r: "Incipit libellus exordiorum dictaminis ad Henricum"
- 126r ("127"): "Incipiunt conuenientia exploratoria"
128v ("129"): blank
129r ("130")-145r ("146"): Moralium dogma philosophorum
145r ("146"): "Qui male agit et bene docet ...". - 146r ("147"): "Sanguinico color capillature purpureus ..."
In the 17th and 18th centuries the volume was owned by Marquard Gude (1635-1689), Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736), and Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768), Fabricius’ son-in-law and heir to his collection of manuscripts. The collection was bought as an ensemble by the University Library of Copenhagen in 1770. The entire collection of manuscripts of the University Library was incorporated into the Royal Library in 1938
Bibl.: Raymond Klibansky & Frank Regen, Die Handschriften der philosophischen Werke des Apuleius. Ein Beitrag zur Überlieferungsgeschichte, Göttingen 1993, p. 81 ('12./13. Jh.'). - Emil J. Polak, Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters, 2, Leiden 1994, p. 44 ('s. XIII'). - Erik Petersen, Intellectum Liberare. Johann Albert Fabricius - en humanist i Europa. København 1998, p. 1054. - Mark Kauntze, Authority and Imitation. A Study of the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris, 2014 (= Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 47), p. 157, 177, 185. - [Not mentioned in Gai Solii Apolinaris Sidonii Epistulae et carmina, ed. C. Lütjohann, Berlin 1887 (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Auctores antiquissimi, VIII), p. XVIIf.]
Erik Petersen
