Item Summary

Commentary on Virgil's Aeneis. The commentary has been attributed to Anselm of Laon.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Commentary on Aeneis]
Call Number
Princeton MS. 43
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m326mb27m
Publisher
[Paris?, France], [between 1200 and 1225]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1200-1225
Extent
46 leaves : parchment ; 228 x 149 (185-200 x 120-125) mm bound to 239 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Early provenance is unknown. In the 18th century in the library of "le comte de Marsane". Intermediate provenance unknown. Ernst Philip Goldschmidt offered the manuscript for sale in 1928. Purchased by Junius Spencer Morgan as a gift to the Princeton University Library, where it was accessioned on 29 July 1929 (no. 658657).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Junius Spencer Morgan, 1929.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 230-231.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Incipit: "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."
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (modern parchment) + 46 + i (modern parchment) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 58-66 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Decoration: Simple 4- to 5-line red Romanesque initials mark the Accessus section (fol. 1r), and the opening of books 2-6, 8-9; space left for unexecuted initials for books 10-12. The opening leaf for book 7 is lost.
Origin: Written in France, perhaps Paris, in the first quarter of the 13th century.
Binding Note
Later binding. France or Italy, 18th century. Brown calf over pasteboard; textblock sewn on 4 bands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Virgil—Aeneis—Criticism, Textual—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—France
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
decorated initials
Parchment (Paper)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
98

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c2b8a647-45cc-4a04-bcde-b56c588914d8/manifest