GKS 3543 8°: Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum. Excerpta & alia

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GKS 3543 8°: Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum. Excerpta & alia

Parchment, 22 ff., 14,2 × 9,2 cm; Germany (?), 1150-1200

In its present form the manuscript consist of 2 quaternions followed by a 3rd quire the first two leaves of which have been cut off (without loss of text). On f. 8v the 1st quire is marked “VIII” in a hand contemporary with the manuscript. 7 quires of the original manuscript have thus been lost. An excerpt begins at the bottom of f. 2v but is not copleted on the following page. The same is the case with an excerpt at the bottom of f. 18v

Contents:

1r-2v: Excerpta ex Fulgentio (Myth. III, praef.), ex Macrobio (Sat. II.iv.22-v.10, praesertim de Caesare Augusto) & ex Solino (Col., cap. 1): "/// detrahis scilicet doctissimus corrigis. | Macrobius in Saturnalium .i. (…) stomacina claudetur cupido; | cor in primis fornator ///"

3r-4r: Hildeberti Cenomannensis (1056-1133) & aliorum carmina (3r-3v: De sacramento conjugii (ed. A. Brian Scott 39.III); 3v: De Lucretia (ed. A. Brian Scott 19); Quid sit vita pudica (ed. A. Brian Scott 47); 3v-4r: alia carmina minora (cf. PL 171, col. 1424f. & 1427))

4r-12r: M. T. Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum

12r-18r: Excerpta ex Senecae Epistolis ad Lucilium

18r-18v: Excerpta ex Quintiliani Institutione Oratoria

19r-22v: Anonymus, Tractatus de dictamine ("De dictamine tractaturi primum eius diffinitionem ponamus (...) per quos uestram uoluntatem nobis rescribite.")

The manuscript once belonged to Friedrich Lindenbrog (1573-1648), cf. "N 7" on f. 1r (identified by Jørgensen). Later it became part of the library of Gottorp Castle in Schleswig, whose manuscripts were transferred to Copenhagen in 1735

Bibl.: Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Hafniæ 1926, p. 300. - William D. Patt, The Early "Ars dictaminis" as Response to a Changing Society, Viator 9 (1978), p. 153-155. - Birger Munk Olsen in: Revue d'Histoire des Textes, 10, Paris 1980, p. 160 (repr. in: La réception de la littérature classique au Moyen Age, Copenhagen 1995, p. 263). - Birger Munk Olsen, L'Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, I, Paris 1982, p. 191f.; II, 1985, p. 295, 408, 496; IV.2, 2014, p. 304, 310, 347, 350, 351. - Eva Horváth, Friedrich Lindenbruch: Späthumanist und Handschriftensammler des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Hamburger Bibliotheks- und Gelehrtengeschichte, Hamburg 1988 [dissertation, microfiche], p. 223. - Emil J. Polak, Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters, 2, Leiden 1994, p. 42. - Hildebertus Cenomannensis episcopus, carmina minora, ed. A. Brian Scott, ed. alt., München & Leipzig 2001 [GKS 3543 8° not used and not mentioned in survey of codices on p. 87]

Erik Petersen