London. British Library, Add MS 11943
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- The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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- London. British Library
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- British Library, Add MS 11943
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- Language
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- Latin
- Title
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- Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
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- Preferred form
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- Macrobe (0370?-043.?)
- Original form
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- Theodosius Macrobius, Ambrosius, c 370-c 435
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- MACROBIUS Ambrosius
- Macrobe (0370?-043.?)
- Ambrosius Aurelius Macrobius
- Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius
- Macrobii
- Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius
- MACROBIUS AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS
- Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius
- Ambrosius Macrobius Theodosius
- Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius (0370?-043.?)
- Macrobius
- Macrobe
- Macrobe 03..-04..
- Martin saint 05..-0580?
- Macrobi, Ambròs Teodosi
- Macrobio, Ambrosio Aurelio Teodosio
- Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius
- Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius fl.ca. 400
- Author: Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius
- Macrobius Theodosius
- Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius.
- Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius, 385-430.
- Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius, 385-430
- Macróbio, Aurélio Teodósio, fl. 400
- MACROBIUS
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- Description
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- Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio ), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v), beginning: 'Inter Platonis et Ciceronis libros quos de Re Publica uterque constituit'; Book 2 (ff. 30r-49r), beginning: 'Superiore commentario, Eustathi luce mihi dilectior fili', ending: 'quo universa philosophie continetur integritas'. Decoration:A decorated initial 'C'(um) in red and green with interlace decoration and a rubric in red and green capitals. A large marginal drawing with colour wash in red, green and brown. Diagrams in the margins with colour wash in red and green. Small initials in red and green, line-fillers in red. Some letters have been highlighted in red. The subjects of the diagrams are as follows:f. 8r: A triangular-shaped diagram showing odd and even numbers especially the number 8 (the first even number that has a cube root) and 27 (the first odd number that has a cube root); f. 8v: A circular diagram of the four elements linked to the humours, in red, green and yellow; f. 26v: Circular diagrams related to the equinox; f. 27r: A circular diagram showing the link between the zodiac signs and the movable spheres;f. 29v: A circular diagram depicting the earth surrounded by the atmosphere and showing how the rain falls;f. 32r: A robed female figure representing the world soul above a diatessaron or diagram of musical harmonies;f. 35r: A circular diagram of the five zones of the earth according to temperature;f. 36v: A circular diagram demonstrating Virgil and Cicero's theories on the zones of the earth;f. 38v: A circular diagram showing the habitable zones of the earth; f. 49r: Three circular diagrams of the eclipses of the sun and the moon;f. 49v: An unfinished circular diagram of an eclipse and an unfinished table.
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- England (United Kingdom)
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- England
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- Angleterre
- Angleterre (?)
- Angleterre.
- Angleterre ?
- Anglaterra
- Inglaterra
- Engeland
- Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
- Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
- Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
- England (Salisbury?)
- [Oxford?]
- [England]
- England, Norwich?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
- England, Cornwall?
- England, St. Albans?
- England, North?
- England, York?
- England, Witham?
- England, Winchester or St. Albans
- England, Reading or Leominster
- England, Cirencester?
- England, Sherborne?
- England, Worcester?
- England, Bury St. Edmunds?
- England, Tewkesbury?
- England, East Anglia?
- England, Peterborough?
- England, Mercia?
- England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
- England, Winchester?
- England, Oxford?
- Flanders (possibly executed in England)
- England and Netherlands
- England, Canterbury?
- England, West Midlands?
- England, London?
- England, Crowland?
- England, Wessex?
- England, Reading?
- England, Northeast?
- England, Southeast?
- England, Ely?
- England, Winchester or Hereford?
- England, Salisbury?
- England, Oxford or Salisbury
- German (but made in England)
- England, South East (?)
- England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
- Hereford?, England
- England, Durham ?
- England, Durham?
- England, probably Durham
- England, Oxford (?)
- England, possibly Oxford
- England (?Oxford)
- England, Durham (?)
- England, London/Westminster
- Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
- Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
- England?
- England (II)
- I. England
- [Engeland]
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- France, Northwestern
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- Northwestern France
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- Rights
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- Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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