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R.3.18

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Shelfmark R.3.18
Manuscript Title

pseudo Boethius, De disciplina scolarium; Ovid Heroides
Alternative Title

Boethius. Ovid, etc
James Number 598
Century 13th
Physical Description

32 lines of text to a normal page. In a hand very common in school-books, rough and black. Marginal scholia and interlinear glosses.
Provenance

Given by Thomas Rud, 1703. Probable identification Rud, Thomas (1667/8–1733), schoolmaster and librarian, alumnus of Trinity (matric 1693) Belonged to Tobias Wright: see on B.2.27. Late names, John Hall, Roberd Skeppes, Hugh Robinson, Hilda Wright, occur.
Donor Rud, Thomas (1667/8–1733), Schoolmaster And Librarian, Alumnus Of Trinity (Matric 1693)
Size (cm) 28.5 x 20
Folio 64 ff.
Material Parchment
Language LatinMiddle English
Collation

a12 b12 c10? (wants 5, 6) d12 c12 f12 (wants 5-8) rest gone.
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.3.18/manifest.json
Online Since 28/04/2015

Contents

1. f.1 'Boethius' de disciplina scolarium (P.L. lxiv. 1223)
Uestra nouit intencio de scolarium disciplina compendiosum postulare tractatum.
Ends f.11b
alterius saporis inquinamenta permanebunt.
Expl. boycius de disciplina scolarium.

2. Ovidii Heroides.
1. f.11b Penelope Ulixi
2. f.13 Phyllis Demophonti
3. f.14b Briseis Achilli
4. f.16b Phaedra Hippolyto
5. f.18b Oenone Paridi
6. f.20b Hypsipyle Jasoni
7. f.22 Dido Aeneae
8. f.24b Hermione Oresti
9. f.26 Deianira Herculi
10. f.28 Ariadne Theseo
Two leaves containing the end of this and the beginning of the next poem are wanting.
11. f.29 Medea Jasoni
12. f.29b Laodamia Protesilao
13. f.31b Hypermnestra Lynceo
14. f.33 Paris Helenae
15. f.36 Helena Paridi
16. f.39 Leander Heroi
17. f.41b Hero Leandro
18. f.43 Acontius Cydippae (in double columns)
wanting the last 13 lines. It ends
Jurate uel non talis habendus erat.
Hec tibi me (f.44b}.

3. f.45 Persii Satirae
Words are glossed in French.

4. f.55 Horatii Epistolae
Four leaves are lost containing Epp. I.viii.11 - i.xvi.60.
Ends imperfectly with Epp. II.i.26.

[A recent list of Latin abreviations is stuck inside front cover.]

Bibliography

Weijers, O., Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scolarium: proefschrift (Leiden, 1976)

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), p. 21

Weijers, O., ed., Les Questions de Craton et leurs commentaires (Leiden, 1981)

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