The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.2.39
Manuscript Title Julian, Orations
Alternative Title Iuliani Orationes
James Number 1143
Century 16th
Physical Description 28 lines to a page. In a fair current hand.
Provenance Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. B. 14. No. 80. Olim liber Hen. Stephani, nunc Tho: Gale Anno D. 1687 o.On the flyleaves are notes by Stephanus(?).
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 22.5 x 16.5
Folio 202 pp. written.
Material Paper
Language Greek
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.2.39/manifest.json
Online Since 11/03/2020

Contents

1. p.1 Ἰουλιανου̑ καίσαρος ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸν αὐτοκράτορα Κωνστάντιον Πάλαι με προθυμούμενον
(Orat. I. ed. Hertlein.)
Ends p.31: ὑπάρχει γνώρισμα, p.32 is blank.

2. p.33 Eiusdem Εὐσεβίας τῆς βασίλιδος ἐγκώμιον
Τίπτε ἄρα χρὴ (Orat. III.).
Ends p.51(52): ἐπαινέτας . τέλος του̑ ἰουλ. αὐτοκρ. ἐγκωμίου εἰς Εὐσεβ. τ. βασιλ.
A date in the margin. Ἐν παταβίῳ (Pavia) ἐγράφη ἔτει ᾳ. φ. ν̅β̅ (1552) μηνὶ ἰουνίῳ .
A blank leaf follows.

3. p.52(53) περὶ τω̑ν του̑ αὐτοκράτορος πράξεων ἢ περὶ Βασιλείας (Orat. II.)
Τὸν ἀχιλλέα.
Ends p.111(112): πρὸς ἔργου τρέπερσθαι.
Ἰουλ. καίσ. περὶ τω̑ν τ. αὐτοκρ. πράξ. ἢ περὶ βασ.
In margin vel sic περὶ βασ. εἰς κωνστάντιον nam sic ἐν τῷ πίνακι nominatur recentiori (?) scriptura.
A blank leaf follows.
4. p.112(113) Eiusdem εἰς τὸν βασιλέα ἤλιον πρὸς Cαλούστιον. προσήκειν ὑπολαμβάνω (Orat. IV.)

Ends imperfectly p.123
τὰ συνήθη καὶ γνώριμα λέγειν (p.190 ed. Hertlein).
The original scribe adds the catchword στάσις
and the next page continues
στάσις ἐστὶ τῆς ἀπειρίας.
But these six leaves (which are of blue paper) really contain the end of Orat. V. (εἰς τὴν μητέρα τω̑ν θεω̑ν) from p.218, l.5, Hertlein to the end -- καθ' ὑμᾶς πορείᾳ. (p.133).
On p.134(135) are these verses by Stephanus(?).
Haec ego per terras misere iactatus et vndas
Naufragio excepi factus prope naufragus ipse
Expertusque graues terra pelagoque dolores
Et mala perpessus dictu maiora fideque,
Iam nimium nimiumque tui studiosus oberro
Ut tandem te aliquo possim oblectare (ditare above line) reuersus
Munere quod nostrum erga te testetur amorem.
Quod si vis tales דוׄקלֵ (lector) pensare labores
Non te aurum porco (quoniam mihi sordet et aurum)
Haec peto quorum Iro, si vult modo, copia larga est.
Nempe animum memorem semperque juuare paratum
Et mihi quas possit cupidum persoluere grates.

5. p.135 Πίναξ τω̑ν λόγων του̑ Ἰουλιανου̑

6. p.137 Ἰουλιανου̑ αὐτοκρ. λόγος Ἀθηναίων τῇ βουλῇ κ. τῷ δήμῳ (Epistola: Hertlein p.347)
Πολλω̑ν εἰργασμένων.
Ends p.146, καὶ άγαπήσουσιν A blank leaf.

7. p.147 Ἰουλιανου̑ αὐτοκρ. μισοπώγων ἢ Ἀντιοχιῆσιν
In another hand, 20 lines to a page. At the top
ἐκ τω̑ν Ἑῤῥίκου του̑ στεφάνου.
Ends p.202. τὰς ἀμοιβὰς άποδοῖεν.
Throughout the book are marginal notes, seemingly by Stephanus.

Bibliography

Bradbury, S., 'The Date of Julian's Letter to Themistius', Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 28 (1987)

Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae. 15, Studie e Testi 453 (Città  del Vaticano, 2008)

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