Description
Alternative title
Statii Thebais
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 83
Date created
[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Language
Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material
Vellum
Layout
51 lines to a page
Height (mm)
230
Width (mm)
125
Collation
I(8)-VI(8) (+1) VII gone VIII(8)-X(8) XI(10).
Writing
very neatly written
Foliation
ff. i + 1-83 + ii
Provenance
Given by Daniel Rogers.
Additions
There are many glosses. I have not seen any in vernacular. The marginal drawings are sometimes very funny.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The copy of the Thebaid by the Roman poet, Statius (c. 45-c. 96), was donated to Corpus Christi College by the scholar, poet and diplomat, Daniel Rogers (c. 1538-91). The manuscript of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century is either French or English. It has some notations in the margins. This epic poem is about the attack on the city of Thebes by the seven leaders of Argos, and is a reworking of an ancient Greek epic now mostly lost. The text was of interest in the Middle Ages, used as a source for the twelfth-century French romance, Le Roman de Thèbes, and by Boccaccio and Chaucer.
- Contents
- Thebais
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