Shelfmark
MS 88
Author
Title
Germanicus Caesar, Aratea, cum commentario. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: M. T. Ciceronis Aratea cum scholiis
Varying form of title
Fragmentum Arati
Varying form of title
M. T. Ciceronis Traductio Arati cilici poete clarissimi de Signis celestibus
Publication, distribution, etc.
Italy, between ca. 1450 and ca. 1500.
Physical description
1 volume (iv, 52, ii leaves) : paper ; 23.5 x 16.5 cm.
Note
Lines 1-430 and Fragment IV, lines 52-163 of the Aratea of Germanicus, ed. A. Breysig, 1867 and Bährens, Poetae Latini minores, v. 1, pp. 148-72, 193-99, with scholia largely from Isidore and Pliny.
Note
The contents of the Eton manuscript are in the same order as found in the Vatican, Madrid, Berlin, and Palermo manuscripts cited by Breysig and Bährens and in British Library, MS Add. 15819. See Ker as cited in the references below for the component divisions in the Eton manuscript.
Note
Incipit: Fragmentum Arati cum armento (sic for: commento) nuiter repertum in sicilia; main text begins on f. 5: M. T. Ciceronis Traductio Arati cilici poete clarissimi de Signis celestibus incipit foeliciter.
Note
With gaps in the text in the first few pages against which the scribe has written 'In ueteri exemplari erant delete pene littere' (f. 1v) and 'Hic idenm in ueteri exemplari erat defectusL qui et supra' (f. 2).
Note
On f. 25 a section begins 'Ethereum uenit taurus ...' after 12 blank lines against which the scribe has written 'Tantum deerat in exemplari'.
Note
On ff. 7-24v there are blank spaces for pictures and captions in the margins; ff. 3v, 49-52v are blank.
Note
Leaves ii-iv are blank leaves of the same paper as ff. 1-52.
Note
Written space: 120 x 70 mm.
Note
22 long lines.
Note
Ruling with a hard point on versos in the first half of each quire and on rectos in the second half.
Note
Collation: 1⁴ 2-5¹⁰ 6⁸.
Note
Written in sloping humanistica; a different scribe starts at f. 40.
Note
3-line gold initial A on a green and red ground at beginning of main text on f. 5; other 20line initials in dark blue.
Note
Secundo folio: mathicis.
Note
Rebound at Eton ca. 1715.
Note
Written in Italy.
Note
On f. iii: 'Nº 22'.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bk.6.15.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 701-2
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 88
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 120
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 88
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 2110
Binding
18th century English calf binding by Slatter.
Subject
Subject
Astronomy, Ancient Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
Italy.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50015