Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 86

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  • VLF 86
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Date
  • France, northeastern part, 9th century, mid
Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Opera philosophica / Cicero, VLF 86
    • Philosophical works
    • De natura deorum
    • De divinatione
    • De fato
    • Topica
    • Paradoxa Stoicorum
    • Lucullus
    • Academica priora
    • De legibus
    • Timaeus
    • see more
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Description
  • Content:
    Contains philosophical works by Cicero: (ff. 1r-10r, 14v-59r and 171v-176v) De natura deorum. - (ff. 10v-14r and 59r-102r) De divinatione. - (ff. 102r-103r and 171r-v) De fato. Excerpts. - (ff. 103r-109r) Topica. Incomplete. - (ff. 109r-114r and 116v-118v) Paradoxa Stoicorum. - (ff. 114v-116v and 118v-144v) Lucullus. - (ff. 144v-162v and 170r-192v) De legibus. - Also contains: (ff. 163v-169r) Timaeus / Plato. Excerpts.
    Note:
    3 leaves (between ff. 103-104) were moved to VLF 84 (now ff. 80-82) in 1860.
    Origin and date: "Wohl Nordostfrankreich, IX. Jh., Mitte", according to Bischoff 2004. Gumbert 1996 suggests: second quarter 9th century.
    Script: Contains corrections in two hands, added shortly after completion.
    Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Rebound using medieval techniques (1997): half leather over wooden boards; bookblock sewn on three supports; two eye-and-pin fastenings (closing on front board edge).
    Textual: (ff. 1r-59r) Part of De divinatione is written after the first book of De natura deorum. - (ff. 103r-109r) Text is mixed up. First leaf has been moved to VLF 84 in 1860. - (ff. 109r-118v) Mixed with Lucullus. - (ff. 114v-116v and 118v-144v) Second part of the Academica priora, of which the first part is now lost. A later redaction (but from Cicero's age) of the same work is called the Academica posteriora. - (ff. 144v-192v) Mixed with excerpts from Timaeus and parts of De fato and De natura deorum. (ff. 163v-169r) Translation and adaptation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero. -
    Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
    Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
    Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
    Description (De Meyier 1973): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:108120
    Also described by MMDC.
    Part of:
    Vossius, I. (1618-1689)
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    9th century
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