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London. British Library, Add MS 11983

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
Library
London. British Library
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  • British Library, Add MS 11983
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Seneca the Younger, De Clementia , Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii , Proverbia , De Beneficiis ; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti ; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum , Tetrasticha ; Epitaphium Senecae ; anonymous verses in praise of England; Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum ; Pseudo-Apuleius, Ad Asclepium de Helena
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Sénèque (0004 av. J.-C.-0065)
    Original form
    • Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, 4 BC-65, also known as Seneca The Younger
    Other form
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (0004 av. J.-C.-0065)
    • L. Annaeus Seneca
    • Sénèque (0004 av. J.-C.-0065)
    • Seneca
    • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    • SENECA tragicus
    • SENEQUE
    • SENECA (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
    • SENECA
    • L. ANNAEUS SENECA
    • Sénèque
    •  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    • Lucii Annaei Senecae
    • Senecae
    • L. Annaei Senecae
    • Sénèque 0004 av. J.-C.-0065
    • Sèneca, Luci Anneu, ca. 4 aC-65 Dc
    • Séneca, Lucio Anneo
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus v4-65
    • Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
    • Senecæs
    • Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Lucius Annaeus)
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus ca. 4 a.C.-65 d.C.
    • Sénèque (4 av. n. è.-62)
    • Seneca, L. Annaeus (5 v. Chr.-65 na Chr)
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Philosophus, -65
    • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus <Philosophus>
    • Seneca philosophus
    • Séneca, ca 4 a.C.-65
    • Lucius Annaeus Seneca - ca. 1 v.Chr. - 65 - auteur
    • Lucius Annaeus Seneca - ca. 1 v.Chr. - 65
    • Seneca - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Marbode (103.-1123)
    Original form
    • Marbod of Rennes, c 1035-1123, Bishop of Rennes
    Other form
    • Marbode (103.-1123)
    • Marbodus Redonensis
    • Marbodus
    • Marbodus Redonensis (103.-1123)
    • Marbode de Rennes
    • Marbode
    • MARBODUS, ep. Redonensis
    • MARBODUS, Redonensis ep.
    • MARBODUS REDONENSIS ep.
    • Marbodi
    • Author: Marbodus, Redonensis
    • Marbod of Rennes
    • Marbode, Bishop of Rennes, 1035?-1123
    • Marbodus Rhedonensis
    • Marbode de Rennes (1035-1123), évêque de Rennes
    • Marbodus <Redonensis>
    • Marbodius Redonensis, ca 1035-1123 > , co-autor
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  • Preferred form
    • Ausone (0310?-0395?)
    Original form
    • Magnus Ausonius, Decimus, c 310-c 395
    Other form
    • Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (0310?-0395?)
    • Decimus Magnus Ausonius
    • AUSONIUS (Decimus Magnus Ausonius)
    • Ausonius Decimus Magnus
    • Ausonii
    • Ausone (0310?-0395?)
    • Ausonius
    • Ausone
    • Ausone 0310?-0395?
    • Ausoni, Dècim Magne
    • Ausonio, Decio Magno
    • Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
    • Ausonius, Decimus Magnus 310-395
    • Author: Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
    • Ausonius Gallus
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  • Preferred form
    • Publilius Syrus (0090?-0040? av. J.-C.)
    Original form
    • Publilius Syrus, fl 1st century
    Other form
    • Publilius Syrus (0090?-0040? av. J.-C.)
    • Publilius Syrus
    • Publii Syri
    • PUBLILIUS SYRUS
    • Author: Publilius, Syrus
    • Publilius, Syrus, active 1st century B.C.
    • Publilius Syrus - 1ste eeuw v.Chr. - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Pseudo-Apuleius
    Original form
    • Pseudo-Apuleius, Unspecified
    Other form
    • Pseudo-Apuleius
    • PSEUDO-APULEIUS
    • Apuleius, auteur prétendu
    • Apuleius, Barbarus
    • Apuleius (Pseudo-)
    • Apuleius Platonicus
    • Pseudo Apuleu
    • Pseudo Apuleyo
    • Apuleius
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Description
  • This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b. 4 BC, d. 65AD), together with those by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. 395) and Marbod of Rennes (b. c. 1035, d. 1123).Contents: ff. 4r-21v: Seneca, De Clementia (On Mercy), beginning: ‘Scribere de clementia nero cesar constitui’. ff. 21v-28v: Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (The Gourdification), also known as Ludus de Morte Claudii Caesaris (Play on the Death of Emperor Claudius), beginning: ‘Quid actum sit in celo’. ff. 28v-36v: Publilius Syrus (fl. 1st century), Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti (Proverbs of Seneca according to the Order of the Alphabet), beginning: ‘Alienum est omne quicquid optando evenit’. ff. 36v-37r: Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum (Poem on the Twelve Emperors), beginning: ‘Cesareos proceres in quorum regna secundis’. ff. 37r-39r: Ausonius, Tetrasticha (Four Verses), beginning: ‘Nunc et predictos, et regni sorte sequentes’. ff. 39r-39v: Epitaphium Senecae (Epitaph of Seneca), beginning: ‘Cura labor meritum’. ff. 40r-43r: Seneca, Proverbia (Proverbs), beginning: ‘Non quid sed quem ad modum feras inter’. ff. 43r-46v: Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum (On the Adornment of Words), beginning: ‘Versificaturo quedam tibi tradere curo’. ff. 48r-70r: Seneca, De Beneficiis (On Benefits), beginning: ‘Cum sit in multis crimen’. ff. 70v-84v: Pseudo-Apuleius, De Helena ad Asclepium (From Helen to Asclepius), beginning: ‘Asclepius iste pro sole mihi’. The manuscript contains a number of later additions: ff. 46v-47r: Verses in praise of England, beginning: ‘Venimus ad naves ascendere me prohibebat’. These include the lines ‘Anglia terra ferax’, etc., attributed by Trithemius ( De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus , 1546) to Richard of Cluny (Scott, ‘Some Poems Attributed to Richard of Cluny’ (1976), pp. 185-93), added in the (?) 14th century. f. 47r: A 14th-century inscription: ‘Grisarius est nomen illius divitis qui vocatur in evangelio lazarum’.f. 85r: Latin notes from the 14th and 15th centuries, including a request for prayer: 'Orent andreas atque petrus iesum michi parcas'.f. 1v: A table of contents, and mnemonic verses added in the 15th or 16th century.f. 2v: Excerpts, also found in the work of the French scholar Étienne Baluze (b. 1630, d. 1718), known as Stephanus Baluzius, beginning 'Νec enim delicata ingenia multis verbis tenenda sunt', added in the (?) 15th or 16th century. f. 3v: A table of contents, added in the 15th or 16th century ('Contenta'), followed by a verse, beginning: 'Cum sit veste niger animo niger iustus'.[ff. 2r, 3r, 47v are blank].Decoration:7 large initials in red ink on ff. 4r, 18r, 21v, 28v, 40r, 43r, 48r. 3 large foliate initials in brown ink with red infill on ff. 53v, 61r, 63r. 1 large foliate initial in brown ink with red and green infill on f. 70v. Numerous small initials in red, and three small initials in black with foliate design (ff. 50r, 57r, 66v). Rubrics in red. Late medieval quire signatures.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • France
    Original form
    • France, Europe
    Other form
    • France
    • France (Paris ? Fontainebleau ?)
    • France.
    • France (?)
    • Lieu de copie : France ( ?) : cf. Hans-Collas ― Schandel, p. 327
    • France ?
    • France -- 16e siècle
    • Frankreich
    • França
    • Francia
    • Frankrijk
    • Abbaye de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadia de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abtei Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadía de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abdij van Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Région de la Loire (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • Loire Region (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Regió del Loira (Abadia de Fleury ?)
    • Región del Loira (Abadía de Fleury ?)
    • France (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • França (Abadia de Fleury?)
    • Francia (Abadía de Fleury?)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Frankreich (Abtei Fleury?)
    • Frankrijk (Abdij van Fleury?)
    • France (est : Lorraine ?)
    • França (est: Lorena?)
    • Ostfrankreich (Lothringen?)
    • Eastern France (Lorraine?)
    • Francia (este: Lorena?)
    • Lothringen
    • Lorena
    • Lotharingen
    • Lorraine
    • França (Borgonya?)
    • France (Burgundy?)
    • Francia (Borgoña)
    • France (Bourgogne ?)
    • Frankrijk (Bourgondië?)
    • France (Bretagne ?)
    • França (Bretanya?)
    • Frankreich (Bretagne?)
    • France (Brittany?)
    • Francia (Bretaña)
    • Frankrijk (Bretagne?)
    • France (ouest : Bretagne ?)
    • Western France (Brittany?)
    • França (oest: Bretanya?)
    • Francia (oeste: Bretaña?)
    • Frankrijk (westen) (Bretagne?)
    • Westfrankreich: Bretagne?
    • Bretagne
    • Bretanya
    • Bretaña
    • Brittany
    • Probably the Loire region
    • France: Auxerre or Brittany
    • France: Fleury. vicinity of Paris (Saint-Denis?) (Bischoff)
    • France: Ile-de-France (Sens?)
    • France: Fleury; Reims?
    • France (Southern France?)
    • France: Fleury
    • France: probably Auxerre
    • France: evidently Eastern France
    • Central- or southern France
    • France, Vienne
    • [France]
    • Paris (?)
    • France (Paris?) or Flanders
    • France (3rd part)
    • Strassburg (probably)
    • Paris (?) or Tours (?)
    • France (Normandy?)
    • Rouen (?) or Paris (?)
    • France: Champagne, Burgundy or Centre
    • Lyon or Luxeuil (?)
    • France (Besançon?)
    • France (Paris?)
    • France, Northern (probably)
    • Probably Eastern France
    • St. Denis near Paris (monastery) (?)
    • Tours (?)
    • France (possibly near the court)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • [Provence?]
    • France, East (?)
    • France, Northeast?
    • France, Pontigny (or Paris?)
    • France, North?
    • France, Paris?
    • France, Diocese of Limoges?
    • France, Auxerre or area
    • France, Burgundy?
    • France, Brittany or Paris?
    • France, Angers?
    • France, Normandy?
    • France, East?
    • France, Bourges?
    • France, Anjou?
    • France, Northwest?
    • France, Tours?
    • France (probably Paris)
    • SW France?
    • FR
    • [FR]
    • Frankreich (Angers?)
    • Frankrijk (?)
    • Gallia
    • Gallia (Frankrijk)
    • Gallia? (Frankrijk?)
    • Frankreich (I.)
    • Frankreich (III.)
    • Frankreich (III)
    • Frankreich (II)
    • Frankreich (I)
    • I./III. Frankreich
    • II. Frankreich
    • Frankreich (Ergänzung)
    • [Frankrijk]
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  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • 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
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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Rights
  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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