• [Notes on lectures delivered by Jacques Sirmond on Virgil and Cicero] / [Michael Reginaldus]

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Extent:
  • 96 leaves : paper ; 206 x 155 (145-160 x 95-100) mm bound to 207 x 162 mm.
Date:
  • 1583
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Author:
  • Reginaldus, Michael, active 16th century
Abstract:
  • Notes on lectures covering Virgil and Cicero delivered by Jacques Sirmond in 1582–1583 at the Jesuit college in Pont-à-Mousson, France.
Contents:
  • 1. fol. 1r-37v: Annotationes in Publii Virgilii Maronis Librum Duodecimum. Lecture notes on Virgil’s Aeneid, book XII. The notes were taken by Michael Reginaldus.
  • 2. fol. 39r-70r: Argumentum. Lecture notes on Cicero's Oratio pro Plancio.
  • 3. fol. 75r-95v: Annotationes P. Virgilii Maronis in Li[b]rvm Tertivm Æneidos. Lecture notes on Virgil’s Aeneid, book III.
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Occasional marginalia (e.g., fols. 39-41) and Greek words and phrases.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 96 + i ; foliation in ink.
  • Layout: 24-37 long liner per page ; frame-ruled.
  • Description: Watermarks (tower with crenellations and a door within a shield; eagle)
  • Origin: Written in Pont-à-Mousson by Michael Reginaldus, probably around 1583.
Binding note:
  • France, late 16th or early 17th century. Sewn on four cords laced into a limp-parchment wrapper, with the remains of two leather ties at the fore-edge.
Provenance:
  • Intermediate provenance is unknown. Sold through Sotheby's, London by Abbé Luigi Celotti in 1895. It was purchased by Thomas Thorpe, who sold it later to Sir Thomas Phillips. His grandson Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick's signature is present in the MS. It was sold from the Phillipps collection at Sotheby's, London to Bernard Quaritch, who sold it to Junius Spencer Morgan. His gift to the Princeton University Library, where it was accessioned in July 1899 as no. 118262.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift; Junius Spencer Morgan, 1899.
Former owner:
  • Phillips, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
  • Fenwick, Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps, 1856-1938
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 42.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 228-229.http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4j03db09z
Alternative:
  • Lecture notes on Virgil and Cicero
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