The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark R.9.23
Manuscript Title

Macrobius, Commentary on Somnium Scipionis; Calcidius, Timaeus

Alternative Title

Macrobius. Chalcidius.

James Number 824
Century 12th
Physical Description

32 lines to a page. In a fine small hand.

Provenance

Given by Willmer. On the fly-leaf is: Liber Jo. Gunthorp emptus London, pro vs iiijd ao doi 1465.
Gunthorp, Dean of Wells (died 1498), was a famous collector and Warden of King's Hall: he left most of his books to Jesus College, but very few of them are there now.

Second Folio hanc h biennio
Donor Wilmer, George (c.1583-1626), Alumnus Of Trinity (Matric 1598)
Size (cm) 20.5 x 14
Folio 2 + 94 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

2 fly-leaves | 18-88 910 (8 canc.) | 108 1114 (1, 2 canc.)

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.9.23/manifest.json
Online Since 01/02/2015

Contents

i. The page before the text is occupied by a very neat diagram (musical) on the verso.
f.2b Macrobius de sompno Scipionis.
Cum in affricam uenissem
-ego somno solutus sum (f.6).
f.6 Comment: Inter platonis et ciceronis libros
There are very good diagrams in text and margin and on f.49 a long marginal note.
Text ends f.74a
quo uniuersa philosophie continetur integritas.
On f.74b in a smaller hand is a prologue to the treatise of Macrobius.
Macrobius orinicretes hoc est somniorum iudex
-ut ad hec loca beatitudinis que ipse describit demum possit attingere.

ii. Without heading.
f.75 Chalcidius super Timaeum Platonis
With interlinear glosses and marginal notes and diagrams.
Inc. Isocrates in exhortacionibus suis uirtutem laudans.
Ends f.92b imperfectly
et ex leui ammonitione perspicuo:
3 lines in smaller hand follow
In naturalibus rationabiliter. In diuinis intellectualiter.
In mathematicis disciplinaliter uersari oportet.
In ditono maior numerus continet minorem etc.
The two last leaves are blank.

Bibliography

Eastwood, B., Ordering the Heavens : Roman Astronomy and Cosmology in the Carolingian Renaissance, History of Science and Medicine Library 4; Medieval and Early Modern Science 8 (Leiden, 2007)

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