Parchment, 40 ff., ca. 20,5 × 13,5 cm (ff. 25-32: ca. 19,5 × 12 cm); France ?, 1175-1200
The manuscript contains commentaries to two works by Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto and Ars amatoria (1r-24v), and two works by Cicero, Cato maior de senectute and Laelius de amicitia (24v-39r). No author of the commentaries is mentioned in the manuscript, nor known from other sources
Another anonymous text has been copied on f. 39r-40r (”Tersimacus sic describit iusticiam ... in intimo cordis retenta”). It consists of definitiones, brief explanations of words and concepts, often elucidated by classical references (cf. f. 39r: Quam diffinitionem socrates corrigens sic ... diffiniuit; f. 39v: "Diffinitiones date secundum tullium")
The manuscript was acquired by the Royal Library at the auction of the Chapter Library of Hamburg in 1784. The manuscript was rebound during the reign of King Christian VIII (1839-1848)
Bibl.: Bibliotheca Capitularis sive apparatus librorum ex omni parte eruditionis in reverendo Capitulo Hamburgensi huc usque asservatorum jam vero ... publica auctionis lege distrahendorum, Hamburgi 1784, p. 274, no. 3372. - Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Hafniæ 1926, p. 307f. - Birger Munk Olsen, L'Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, I, Paris 1982, p. 323f.; II, 1985, p. 176; IV.1, 2009, p. 15, 20, 28, 46, 57, 58, 89, 90, 140, 151, 152, 164, 172, 203; IV.2, 2014, p. 414
Erik Petersen