Detailed table of contents on ff.1r-9r
Massive index on ff.IIr-XXXIIIr
See Biblissima,
See Jordanus #10292
See Biblissima,
See Biblissima, scribe: Petrus Theotunicus
Another week of digitizing concludes with twenty-nine new manuscripts, which seems to be the current pace. The largest collection continues to be Barb.lat, with eleven added. Following that was Ott.lat, a less common large contributor, with nine. Six came from Chig, two from Comb and a lone manuscript from Capp.Sist.
To the right is f.1r from Ott.lat.1585, a manuscript containing ten plays of Seneca. Unusually for 14th C manuscripts, we know the name of the scribe, Peter Theotunicus, and the exact year, 1373, and day, the Vigil of St. Katherine, of completion; that is November 24, 1373. The script and decoration point to a northern Italian, perhaps Bologna, origin. The page layout is designed for marginal glossing, with the principle text in the middle and glosses like brackets on boths sides, but this was only completed through f.41r.
At the bottom are some of the geometric diagrams found in the margin of f.21r of Ott.lat.1551. This is a copy of Euclid's Elements of Geometry, translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath and commentated by Campanus de Novara.
Detailed table of contents on ff.1r-9r
Massive index on ff.IIr-XXXIIIr
See Biblissima,
See Jordanus #10292
See Biblissima,
See Biblissima, scribe: Petrus Theotunicus