Transmission of the Latin Classics

Hello, everyone. In anticipation of the forthcoming Oxford Guide to the Transmission of the Latin Classics, which will cover the transmission of every Latin author and text, with an independent transmission, of primarily secular interest, up to sixth century,

Juvenal and Horace!

Gellius!

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Coming up for auction: partial 12th-c leaf of the so-called paraphrasis Themistiana of Aristotle's Categories. The Latin version used to be wrongly ascribed to Augustine. Attractive marginalia. #fragmentology

Building with two arcades under which Horace and Maecenas are depicted BnF MS Latin 8214; Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina ; Epodon ; Carmen saeculare ; Ars poetica ; Epistolae ; Sermones; 11th century (second half); France (Midi); f.1r @GallicaBnF

Paws for thought BnF MS Latin 8214; Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina ; Epodon ; Carmen saeculare ; Ars poetica ; Epistolae ; Sermones; 11th century (second half); France (Midi); f.13r @GallicaBnF

Splendid initial 'F'(raternas acies) at the beginning of Bk I of Statius' Thebaid BnF Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse; Ms. 808; Stacii Pampinii Surculi Thebaidos libri XII; 12th century; f.1r @GallicaBnF

Ovid writing at his desk, beneath the initial 'I'(n) of Bk I of the Metamorphoses BnF MS Latin 8016; P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoseon libri quindecim; 15th century (c.1485 CE); Italy (Rome); f.1r @GallicaBnF

A horse's head in the margin above line 476 of Bk II of the Georgics: "quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore" BnF MS Latin 7926; Publius Vergilius Maro, Ecloga, Georgica et Aeneis; 9th century (2nd half); Abbry of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre (France); f.34r @GallicaBnF

"Is there life outside the text?" BnF MS Latin 7501; Priscianus Caesariensis, Ars grammatica, sive Institutiones Grammaticae, libri I-XVIII, Opera minora; 9th century (3rd quarter); Abbey Saint-Pierre de Corbie; f.90v @GallicaBnF

Pliny the Elder's "Naturalis historia" can be considered the 1st #encyclopaedia. The work was hugely popular. It appeared in print from the incunabulum period onwards. Several translations also followed, of which Special Collections holds this Dutch edition from 1733 (RA67683).

Astrologia teaching the science of the stars BnF MS Latin 7900A; Various including Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Mercuri et Philologiae (ff.112-155); 9th century (end) or 10th century (beginning); Northern Italy (Milan?) f.151v @GallicaBnF

Former pastedown is a leaf from an attractively written 11th-c MS of Servius' commentary on Vergil's Aeneid (bk 6) (@subugoe, App. dipl. 10 E I 27) #fragmentology monasterium.net/mom/DE-GAUnivG…

In the margin it is remarked that there is a note from Friedrich Nietzsche: "gedruckt bei Beda ed. Basiliens. tom. I p. 156" Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F V 17; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, lib. 1-2; 11th century; f.38v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/ub…)

Stylus and wax tablets BnF MS Latin 5748; Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Catilinae coniuratio, & Bellum Iugurthinum; 10th century (2nd half); France (North); f.1v @GallicaBnF Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; c.1150 CE; Southern France ?; f.46v

Representation of the copyist/author holding a stylus and wax tablets BnF MS Latin 5748; Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Catilinae coniuratio, & Bellum Iugurthinum; 10th century (2nd half); France (North); f.1v @GallicaBnF

Initial 'E'(x) formed of the author writing the text on wax tablets Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, NKS 218 4°; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; c.1150 CE; Southern France ?; f.46v

Another zonal map for the collection BL Harley MS 2652; Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; 11th century; France or Germany; f.48r @BLMedieval

Zonal map in black, with Orkneys BL Harley 2772; Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, fragment; Germany; 11th century; f.70v @BLMedieval