Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 447

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  • 1500 - 1525
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  • Latin
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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 447: Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae (excerpted from Moralia, book 4)
  • Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae (excerpted from Moralia, book 4)
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 447 contains an early sixteenth-century copy of the Latin translation of Plutarch (c. 46-127), Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae from Book IV of the Moralia. James identified both the script and the parchment as being of Italian origin.


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    1r-86v - Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae (excerpted from Moralia, book 4)

    Note: The text of ff. 1r-8v has been erased more or less completely

    Note: The volume contains a Latin version of the Quaestiones Romanae and Quaestiones Graecae of Plutarch

    Note: On the early Latin versions see Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. V 203

    Note: The first complete section is on f. 9r

    incipit: (9r) Quid est quod ancillis eadem Matute ingredi fas non est

    Note: (no. 16)

    Note: The Roman questions end 59v

    explicit: (59v) et cognatorum quod bruto accidit

    Note: The Greek continue with no separate title

    incipit: (59v) Qui sunt quos epidauri compodes artinos appellant

    Note: A good many blanks are left in the text as if the archetype were defective. The text of ff. 81r-82v is erased beginning in the question (no. 46)

    incipit: (80v) Quid est quod purgatorem uocant thralian (!)

    Note: The first after the blank is (no. 52)

    incipit: (83r) Quid cause quamobrem elei equas finibus eductas iniri faciunt

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (86v) postea a genere hamasocii liste (άμαξοκυλιστὰι) nominati sunt

    rubric: (86v) Finis

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