A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.22, Macrobius' Commentarii in somnium Scipionis Title: Macrobius' Commentarii in somnium Scipionis
Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2014
This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
Shelf mark
Walters Art Museum Ms. W.22
Descriptive Title
Macrobius' Commentarii in somnium Scipionis
Text title
Macrobius' Commentarii in somnium Scipionis
Author
Authority name: Macrobius, Theodosius Supplied name: Macrobius
Abstract
This copy of Macrobius' Commentarii in somnium Scipionis was produced most likely in northeastern France in the late twelfth century. The manuscript includes seven major diagrams, of which four are original to the manuscript (fols. 38v, 41r, 43v, and 47v) and three others, including a map of the world, were added early in the history of the manuscript (fols. 64v, 65v, and 66r). Additional minor diagrams demonstrating relationships in philosophical ideas or other concepts introduced in the text appear throughout the manuscript in the margins, added by later hands.
Date
Last quarter of the 12th century CE
Origin
Northeastern France (?)
Form
Book
Genre
Literary -- Prose
Genre
Philosophical
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Support material
Parchment
Ambrosius
Aurelius
Thin to medium-weight calfskin, reasonably well prepared, with hair follicles often visible on folio surfaces; fols. 53 and 64 were inserted early as replacements, sewn onto stubs still visible in the spine; significant yellow-brown stains throughout from rubbing and use; some damage to folio edges with occasional trimming of upper or lower margins Extent
Foliation: i+66 Evidence for endleaf i affixed to fol. 66v and later removed; fragments of the paper leaf still cling to the parchment folio
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Collation
Formula: i, 1(2), 2-9(8) Signatures: Roman numerals mark quires at lower right of versos, II-IX Comments: First folios of each quire on fols. 1(1), 3(2), 11(3), 19(4), 27(5), 35(6), 43(7), 51(8), 59(9); fols. 1-2 are bifoliate and were added in the thirteenth century; fol. 1r is a palimpsest; quires 6 and 7 have been reversed
Dimensions
11.5 cm wide by 20.25 cm high
Written surface
8.0 cm wide by 15.0 cm high
Layout
Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 31 Fol. 1r has 48 ruled lines
Contents
fols. 1r - 66v: Title: Macrobius' Commentarii in somnium Scipionis Incipit: Inter platonis et ciceronis libros quos de re publica uterque constituit. eustachi fili mihi uitae dulcedo pariter et gloria. hoc interesse prima fronte perspeximus. quod ille rem publicam ordinauit. ille retulit. alter qualis esse deberet. alter qualis esset instituta a maioribus disseruit. Hand note: Textura, with rustic capitals and uncials used for the first words of principal text divisions Decoration note: Seven monochromatic diagrams in brown ink; letters initiating text divisions colored with small amounts of red ink; text in brown ink
Decoration
fol. 3v: Title: Marginal diagram glosses Form: Marginal diagrams Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 8v: Title: Marginal diagram gloss Form: Marginal diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis
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fol. 9v: Title: Marginal diagram glosses Form: Marginal diagrams Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 10v: Title: Marginal diagram gloss Form: Marginal diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 20r: Title: Marginal diagram gloss Form: Marginal diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 38v: Title: Diagram of climatic zones Form: Marginal diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 41r: Title: Diagram of five celestial and five earthly zones Form: Half-page diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 43v: Title: Diagram of the twelve zodiacal and seven planetary spheres Form: Half-page diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 47v: Title: Diagram of the earth and atmosphere Form: Intertextual diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 50v: Title: Lambda diagram of the world-soul from Plato's Timaeus Form: Marginal diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 64v: Title: Map of the world
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Form: Half-page diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 65v: Title: Diagram of the Diatesseron Form: Full-page diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis fol. 66r: Title: Lambda diagram of the world-soul from Plato's Timaeus Form: Half-page diagram Text: Commentarii in somnium Scipionis Binding
The binding is not original. Rebound in France in the nineteenth century in brown calfskin; seven groups of gilded bands on the spine, interspersed with gilded images of wheels and vessels; the title "CODEX PERGAMIN M.S." appears on the red label at the top of the spine; labels showing W.22, 1029, and 749 appear at the bottom
Provenance
Created in the last quarter of the twelfth century, probably in northeastern France (French Flanders) Owned by a Franciscan monk in the fourteenth century, as indicated by the inscription at the top of fol. 66r: "fratris Raymundi Iustardinis minorum fratrum" Owned by Abbot Luigi Celotti (ca. 1768-1846) in the nineteenth century, as indicated by "Celotti" written in pencil on the pastedown of the upper board Sold by Abbot Luigi Celotti at Evans' London auction on March 14, 1825 (lot no. 478), to Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), a London bookseller Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps sometime between 1825 and 1903; the Phillipps book stamp appears on the front pastedown, along with the manuscript number 1029, which also appears at the bottom of fol. 1r and on the label at the base of the spine
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Sold by Sir Thomas Phillipps at Sotheby's London auction on April 30, 1903 (lot no. 749), to Bernard Quaritch Ltd., a London bookseller Henry Walters, Baltimore, between 1895 and 1931, by purchase from Quaritch Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography
De Ricci, S., and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 840, cat. no. 477. Munby, A. N. L. The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841 to 1872. Phillipps Studies, vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956, pp. 50-51. Faye, C. U., and W. H. Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 197, cat. no. 477. Macrobius. Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis. Vol. 2. Edited by J. Willis. Leipzig: Teubner, 1963. Destombes, Marcel. Mappemondes, A.D. 1200-1500: Catalogue. Monumenta cartographica vetustioris aevi, A.D. 1200-1500, vol. 1. Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964, p. 44, pl. XIIIc (fol. 64v). Cameron, Alan. "The Date and Identity of Macrobius." Journal of Roman Studies 56 (1966): 25-38. Phillipps, Thomas. The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in biblioteca D. Thomae Phillipps.... Edited by A. N. L. Munby. London: Holland Press, 1968, p. 12. Reymond, Georges, and Jean-Édouard Dugand. Monaco Antique: Essai sur l'histoire ancienne de Monaco.... Publications de la FacultÊ des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Nice. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1970, p. 61, pl. 9 (fol. 64v).
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Kish, George. La carte: Image des civilisations. Paris: Seuil, 1980, pp. 209-210, pl. 28 (fol. 64v). Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp. 22-23, cat. no. 9, fig. 18 (fol. 47v). Macrobius. Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. Edited and translated by William Harris Stahl. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Caluzzo, Irene. "Appendice 2: Listes de Manuscrits." In Lectures mĂŠdiĂŠvales de Macrobe: les glosae colonienses super Macrobium. Edited by Irene Caluzzo, 291-299. Paris: Libraire Philosophique VRIN, 2002; p. 291. Eastwood, Bruce. "Manuscripts of Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, before 1500." Manuscripta 38, no. 2 (1994): 138-155. Eastwood, Bruce, and Gerd Grasshoff. Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, Ca. 800-1500. Transactions of the American Philosophical Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Knowledge, Volume 94, Part 3. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004; pp. 61, 149. Chekin, Leonid S. Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography: Inventory, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006; p. 103, cat. no. VII.2.29, 419 (fig. VII.2.29). Florea, Luminita. "Virtus Scriptoris: Steps Towards a Typology of Illustration Borrowing in Music Treatises." In Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation. Edited by Bruno Buckaert and Eugeen Schreurs, 77-96. Leuven: Alamire Foundation, 2008; p. 90 (n. 50). Contributors
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S Editor: Herbert, Lynley Copy editor: Dibble, Charles Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
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Contributors: Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Wiegand, Kimber
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The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2014
This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2014