Fabr. 29 2°: Principia & glose super auctores

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Fabr. 29 2°: Principia & glose super auctores

Parchment, 59 ff. (1 + 4×IV + II + 2×IV + IV-2), 1: ca. 23,5 × 16 cm; 2-35 + 54-59: ca. 24,2 × 17,5 cm; 36-45: ca. 24,2 × 15 cm; 46-53: ca. 21,5 × 14 cm; France (?), saec. XIII

The volume contains glosses, commentaries and introductions to texts by Ovidius, Statius, Claudianus and Avianus. Parts of the first leaves are damaged

The first leaf, an addition to the manuscript proper, contains minutes from the Dominican provincial chapter held in Rostock in 1362. On the verso there is a list of the contents of the volume and the ex-libris of Reynerus de Capella, a member of the Dominican convent of Soest, where he was a lector, later to become the prior of his house and head of his order in the province of Saxonia. He died in 1384. When and where Reynerus acquired Fabr. 29 2° is not known. The occurrence of at least one gloss in French (ad lappa, Epp. ex ponto, II.i.14, added on top of f. 48va, linked by marks to line 16) may indicate that it was produced in France, probably in the first half of the 13th century

The volume was later owned by Bernhard Rottendorff (1594-1671), 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.: Paul Lehmann, Skandinavische Reisefrüchte, III, in: Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen XXII 1935, p. 116f. ('s. XIII ex'). - Loris Sturlese, Der Soester Lektor Reiner von Cappel OP und zwei Wolfenbütteler Fragmente aus Kapitelsakten der Dominikanerprovinz Saxonia, in: Wolfenbütteler Beiträge, 6, 1983, p. 194-196. - Bernd Michael, Die Mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Wissenschaftlichen Stadtbibliothek Soest, Wiesbaden 1991, p. 33f. & 43. - Erik Petersen, Intellectum Liberare. Johann Albert Fabricius - en humanist i Europa. København 1998, p. 1049. - Frank T. Coulson & Bruno Roy, Incipitarium Ovidianum. A finding guide for texts in Latin related to the study of Ovid in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Turnhout 2000, passim. - Wilken Engelbrecht, Filologie in de dertiende eeuw: de Bursarii super Ovidios van magister Willem van Orléans (fl. 1200 AD). Inleiding, editie en commentaar, I-II, Olomouc 2003, II p. XIVf. & passim ('s. XIII'). - Jörg Rudolf Rieker, Arnulfi Aurelianensis Glosule Ovidii Fastorum. Kritische Erstedition und Untersuchung, Firenze 2005, p. LIII & passim ('s. XII'). - Frank T. Coulson, Ovid's Transformations in Medieval France (ca. 1100-ca. 1350), in: Alison Keith & Stephen James Rupp (edd.), Metamorphosis. The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Toronto 2007, p. 39-42 & 45. – Michael Baldzuhn, Schulbücher im Trivium des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Die Verschriftlichung von Unterricht in der Text- und Überlieferungsgeschichte der "Fabulae" Avians und der deutschen "Disticha Catonis", Berlin/New York 2009, p. 835f.

Erik Petersen