Codices Vossiani Latini
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Title:
Description in De Meyier Catalog
Language:
Latin
Date range:
Early 9th c.
Author(s):
Titus Lucretius Carus (99/94-55/53 BC)
Description:
VLF 30 is a parchment codex from the early 9th c., its leaves measuring 323 x 210 mm. It is constructed of 25 quires of mostly 4 bifolia, totalling 192 leaves (384 pages). Quire signatures are still visible up to the 20th quire. The lower right corner of f. 1 is cut off, and so are the top right corners of ff. 3-5. Written space covers 235 x 155 mm (mostly 20 lines in hard point ruling). A single scribe wrote in Minuscula carolina (but not uniformly). Several scribes corrected the text, the oldest of which used a 9th-c. Anglo-Saxon script. There are several theories about the identities of some of the correctors (de Meyier, I, p. 66). There are only a few initials and rubricated inscriptions. The codex has a 19th-c. cardboard binding with dark leather protection and the stamp of Leiden University.
Classification:
Antiquity - Philosophy - Epicureanism - Classical literature
Other Resources:
==> Library Catalogue Universiteit Leiden
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
DOI:
10.1163/9789004264243_F_030
Journal:
VLF 030 - Lucretius