Vergilius Augusteus
The Codex Vergilius Augusteus, which has only survived in extremely fragments, is a splendid late antique manuscript of works by the Roman poet Virgil , probably from the 6th century. From a 1574 letter from the humanist Claude Dupuy to Giovanni-Vincenzo Pinelle, a middleman of Fulvio Orsini , it emerges that Virgilius Augusteus, like Virgilius Romanus, once belonged to the library of the Abbey of St-Denis . After Orsini's death in 1600, the sheets he had acquired were transferred to the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana by testamentary decree in 1602 , where they are now kept under the signature Vatican City, BAV, latinus 3256 . Georg Heinrich Pertz bought three more sheets from the possession of the humanist Pierre Pithou to the Dutch family van Limborch at an auction in 1862 for the royal library in Berlin, which is now the State Library of Berlin Prussian Cultural Heritage (SBPK) Signature Ms. lat. Fol. 416 wear. Due to the relocation during the Second World War, they came to the University Library of Tübingen together with other manuscripts . Today they are back in the Berlin State Library and are one of their celebs.
From the manuscript, only seven of its parchment leaves with the georgica and four verses from the Aeneid have survived , four in the BAV (Vat. Lat. 3256) with georgica (fragmenta) on fol.1r-2v (double sheets are counted here!) And three in of the Berlin State Library (Ms. lat. fol. 416). A lost original eighth leaf with verses from Book IV. The Aeneid, even this once owned by Pierre Pithou is only by a stitch in by Thierry Ruinart published second edition of Jean Mabillon De re diplomatica 1709, pp 635 and P. 637, documented. Vergilius Augusteus is of no importance for the text transmission of Virgil's works. In the editions it bears the seal A.
The Vergilius Augusteus is written in Capitalis quadrata and is one of the few examples that this script was used in late Roman times for texts other than inscriptions and on other writing materials than those customary for epigraphic texts. The pages of Vergilius Augusteus are preceded by decorative initials . The layout with the unusually large format of approx. 42 cm page height and approx. 32 cm width, the almost square writing area due to the relatively low number of verses of 20 per page and the letter height of approx. 0.6 cm and the wide upper and lower The side margin corresponds to the monumental impression of the Capitalis quadrata.
There are a number of other famous Virgil manuscripts from late antiquity .
facsimile
- Carl Nordenfalk : Vergilius Augusteus. Complete facsimile edition, Codex Vaticanus latinus 3256 of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and Codex latinus fol. 416 of the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage . Graz 1976 (Codices selecti phototypice impressi, 56)
literature
- Johannes Götte (Ed.): Virgil. Aeneid. Heimeran, Munich 1958, pp. 583-590.
- Richard Seider : Contributions to the history and palaeography of the ancient Virgil manuscripts. In: Herwig Görgemanns , Ernst A. Schmidt (Ed.): Studies on the ancient epic (= contributions to classical philology. 72). Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1976, pp. 129-172.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Johannes Götte (Ed.): Virgil. Aeneid. Heimeran, Munich 1958, p. 587.
- ↑ See Johannes Götte (Ed.): Virgil. Aeneid. Heimeran, Munich 1958, pp. 589f.
- ↑ Manuscripta Mediaevalia. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
- ^ Andreas Fingernagel: The illuminated Latin manuscripts of southern, western and northern European provenance in the Berlin State Library. Prussian cultural property: 4th - 12th century. Ed .: State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage. Catalogs of the manuscript department: Row 3. Illuminated manuscripts; Vol. 2, T. 1-2. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, p. Part 1, p. 1 f. Part 2, Fig. 1 f .
- ↑ See Johannes Götte (Ed.): Virgil. Aeneid. Heimeran, Munich 1958, p. 587.
Web links
DigiVatLib. Retrieved February 17, 2019 . Entry in Manuscripta MedievaliaEntry in Manuscripta MedievaliaEntry in Trismegistos