Commentary on Aeneid / Pseudo-Anselm of Laon

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1.1r-46v: “Avctor iste sicut bucolica scripsit rogatu pollionis georgica uero rogatu mecenatis ... telluris in altum &c. His et finitis et praelibatis literam exponamus. [Commentary] Arma uirumque cano id est armatum et bellicosum uirum et est endiadis. Endiadis enim est quedam figura scilicet sermonis improprietas ...” Explicit: “Vtinam Statius Indignantem animam propriis non reddidit astris. Expliciunt Glosule Eneydos.”

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Script: Littera glossularis.
Decoration: There are red initials at the beginning of books 1-6 and 8; the opening of book 7 has been lost. Simple 4- to 5-line red Romanesque initials mark the Accessus section (fol. 1r), and the opening of books 2-6, 8-9 (fols. 6v, 10r, 14r, 17r, 20v, 28r, 32v); space left for unexecuted initials for books 10-12 (fols. 34v, 39r, 42v). The opening leaf for book 7 is lost.

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France or Italy, 18th century. Brown calf over pasteboard; textblock sewn on 4 bands. Spine label (goldstamped): “Virgilius Maro. Scholia in Aeneidem. MS. xii-xiii Saec.”

Provenance:

Princeton Ms. 43 was produced in France, perhaps Paris, in the first quarter of the 13th century. Early provenance is unknown. The London antiquarian bookseller Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954) offered the manuscript in Catalogue 19: Greek and Roman Classics, Church Fathers, Mediaeval Literature ... (London: E. P. Goldschmidt & Company, [1928]), pp. 35-36, no. 99. Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932), Class of 1888, of Princeton, New Jersey, purchased the manuscript as a gift to the Princeton University Library, where it was accessioned on 29 July 1929 (no. 658657).

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Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 230-231.

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