Volume 1

Catalogue of romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1883-1910
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Catalogue of romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. Three Greek epigrams on the graves of the Trojans, inserted in the title-page, and 20 similar ones (numbered as 16) on the Greeks, inserted at the end : the latter of which are followed by some drafts of translation into Latin verse. These epigrams are copied from the end of the first printed edition of the Epistles of Aristasnetus (Antwerp, 1566), as is stated under the three epigrams on the title-page. The Latin translations begin with the ninth epigram on the Greeks (“ Dux Pyliuin Nestor,” etc.), and end with the 34th, on Automedon (here numbered “ 30 ”); but a few of the intermediate ones are omitted, fif. 2, 45. Vol. II. The Iliaca of Tzetzes, translated into 1848 Latin hexameters by Pierre Moreau, in the course of the years 1563- 1565 : together with a commentary, translated from the scholia of Tzetzes himself; and with an argument of 15 lines, by the trans- lator, prefixed to each of the three parts. In Latin and French ; to one of which (f. 96 b) is appended the date of 1579. The title is as follows: “ loannis Grammatici Tzetzae. De hello Troiano libri tres, quos inscripsit Antehomerica, Homerica, et Posthomerica, vna cum suis ipsius in eosdem scholijs, ex Graecis nondum extantibus Latinj factj. Petro Morello Turonensi interprete. Lochis Turonicis. 1565.” f. 1. a. Part i. Antehomerica, in 412 lines. Preceded by an argument, in 15 lines. The text begins: “ Iliacos cineres supre- maque funera Troiae.” f. 1 b. The commentary begins: “ Cum breuitatis in primis studiosus sit hie poeta.” h. Part II. Homerica, in 566 lines. With argument, in 15 lines. The text begins: “ Talia magnauimus postquam resciuit Achilles.” f. 23 b. The commentary begins : “ Ob pulcram fieri Briseida) Haec fuit causa, cur Achilles irasceretur.” f. 25. At the end of this part is the date, “5 Cal. Jul. [27 June] 1563. Lochis.” f. 55 b. c. Part III. Posthomerica, in 870 lines. With argument, in 15 lines, written on a half-leaf (f. 56). This half-leaf had been pasted by Moreau to the upper half of the next page, which contains the argument as originally written: but the half-leaf is now raised. The text begins : “ Ingrato postquam cineri suprema tulere.”
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