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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 230

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Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)
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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 230
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Date
  • 1100 - 1199
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle French
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 230: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
  • Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
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Description

  • Summary: The copy of the Thebaid by the Roman poet, Statius (c. 45-c. 96), was donated to Corpus Christi College by the scholar, poet and diplomat, Daniel Rogers (c. 1538-91). The manuscript of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century is either French or English. It has some notations in the margins. This epic poem is about the attack on the city of Thebes by the seven leaders of Argos, and is a reworking of an ancient Greek epic now mostly lost. The text was of interest in the Middle Ages, used as a source for the twelfth-century French romance, Le Roman de Thèbes, and by Boccaccio and Chaucer.


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    1r-83v - Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais

    Note: (1r) Liber I

    incipit: (1r) Fraternas acies

    Note: (8r) Liber II . With argument

    incipit: (8r) Ut maya genitus

    Note: (15r) Liber III. With argument

    Note: (22r) Liber IV. No argument

    Note: (30r) Liber V. No argument

    Note: (37r) Liber VI. No argument

    Note: (45v) Liber VII. No argument

    Note: Ends imperfectly with line 488

    explicit: (49v) asspexit achivos

    Note: A quire gone

    Note: (50r) Liber VIII. 1-418 gone. Begins 419

    incipit: (50r) Nec locus

    Note: (53r) Liber IX. No argument

    Note: (60v) Liber X

    Note: (69r) Liber XI

    Note: (75v) Liber XII

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (83r) referentur honores

    rubric: (83r) Pampinii Surculi Thebaidos lib. XIImus explicit

    Note: Twelve lines

    Note: (83r) Adsociat profugum tideo primus polinicem...Argiam flentem narrat duodenus et ignem

    rubric: (83r) Explicit iste liber poscat sua dona magister

    Note: On f. 83v a scribble, xiii

    Note: (83v) Ascum trecher amy Johan de powey (? fowey) le sun

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