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London. British Library, Harley MS 2652

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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London. British Library
Shelfmark
  • British Library, Harley MS 2652
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Cicero, Somnium Scipionis ; Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis ; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Cicéron (0106-0043 av. J.-C.)
    Original form
    • Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC
    Other form
    • CICERO (M.-T.)
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius (0106-0043 av. J.-C.)
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • CICERO (Marcus Tullius)
    • Cicéron
    • CICERO
    • Cicéron (0106-0043 av. J.-C.)
    • Cicero
    • CICÉRON
    • Ciceron, M. T.
    • M. T. Cicero
    • Cicerone
    • M. Tullii Ciceronis
    • M. T. Ciceronis
    • Tullius Cicero
    • TULLE
    • CICERO (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
    • Marcus Tullio Cicero
    • M. T. CICERO
    • Cicéron 0106-0043 av. J.-C.
    • Ciceró, Marc Tul·li‏
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius v106-v43
    • Cicerón, Marco Tulio
    • Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
    • Marcus Tullius
    • Cicero (M. Tullius Cicero)
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106 B.C.-43 B.C.
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero (v65)
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero (v106-v43)
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero (-0106 - 0043)
    • Cicero, M. Tullius (106-43 v. Chr)
    • Cicerón, Marco Tulio, 106-43 a.C
    • Cicero, Marcus Tullius, v106-v43
    • Cícero, 106 a.C.-43 a.C.
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero - auteur
    • Marcus Tullius Cicero - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Cicero - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Macrobe (0370?-043.?)
    Original form
    • 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, Ambrosius Theodosius, 385-430
    • Macróbio, Aurélio Teodósio, fl. 400
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  • Preferred form
    • Chalcidius
    Original form
    • Calcidius, 4th century
    Other form
    • Chalcidio
    • Chalcidius
    • Calcidi
    • Calcidio
    • Calcidius
    • Chalcidius fl. um 400 n. Chr.
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  • Preferred form
    • Nicolas de Cusa (1401-1464)
    Original form
    • Nicholas of Cusa (Nicholaus von Kues), 1401-1464, Cardinal Bishop of Brixen
    Other form
    • Author: Nikolaus von Kues
    • Nicolas de Cusa (1401-1464)
    • Nikolaus <von Kues, Kardinal> (1401-1464)
    • Nikolaus, von Kues, Kardinal, 1401-1464
    • Nicolaus de Cusa
    • Nikolaus Cusanus
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Description
  • This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), Macrobius (fl. 400)'s commentary on it, as well as Calcidius (4th century)’s commentary of Plato (b. 429 BC, d. 347 BC)’s dialogue Timaeus (Timaios). These philosophical works stood as the basis of medieval Platonist philosophy. The volume was owned and annotated by the German humanist Nicholas of Cusa (b. 1401, d. 1464). Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Cicero, Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), beginning: ‘Cum in Affricam venissem’. ff. 4r-60v: Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis , beginning: ‘Inter Platonis et Ciceronis libros quos de re publica’. f. 61r: An accessus ad auctorem introduction to Plato, beginning: ‘Plato erudicionis gratia in Egiptum’. ff. 61r-68v: Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus , preceded by a prologue beginning: ‘[O]sio suo Calcidius. Socrates in exhortationibus’; the folios have been bound in the wrong order. They should be as follows: ff. 61r-68v, 53r-60v. The text breaks off at 'quod suscipit matris at vero iude' (f. 60v). Decoration:5 diagrams or maps in brown ink (ff. 12r, 31v, 35r, 42v, 45v, 48r). Large and smaller initials in dark brown ink or red, occasionally with some pen-work decoration (on ff. 54v, 61r, 61v and 66r the initials have not been filled in). Rubrics in red or in dark brown ink, occasionally highlighted with light brown. Added in plummet:, drawing of a (?) male bust (f. 2r, lower margin).
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
    • Germany
    Original form
    • Germany, Europe
    Other form
    • Allemagne
    • Allemagne (?)
    • Allemagne ?
    • Deutschland
    • Germany
    • Alemanya
    • Alemania
    • Duitsland
    • Southwestern German region (?)
    • Germany (Trier ?)
    • Germany (Gladbach Abbey?)
    • Germany (Tegernsee?)
    • Cologne (?)
    • [Germany]
    • Germany, Nuremberg?
    • Germany, Erfurt?
    • Flanders; Germany
    • Fritzlar? (Germany)
    • Cologne? (Germany)
    • Germany, Augsburg?
    • Germany, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)
    • Germany, Würzburg (St. Kylian (?))
    • Germany, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)
    • German, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)
    • Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian (?)
    • Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian
    • Germany, Lower Saxony, Corvey, Benedictine abbey (?) or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
    • Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian or Niederaltaich, Benedictine abbey
    • Germany, Eberbach?
    • Germany, Murbach
    • Germany, Lower Saxony, Corvey?
    • Germany, Fulda?
    • Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
    • Germany, Hirsau?
    • Germany, Reichenau?
    • Germany, Rhineland?
    • Germany, Cologne or Lower Saxony
    • [Deutschland]
    • Duitsland (?)
    • Germania
    • [Duitsland]
    • [Duitsland?]
    • Germania (?)
    • Deutschland (I)
    • Deutschland (II)
    • Deuschland
    • Deutschland (III)
    • Deutschland (V)
    • Deutschland (I, III, V)
    • I./II. Deutschland
    • I. Deutschland
    • Alemanha
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Rights
  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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