Volume 1

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

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Date:
1883-1910
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

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

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    2. The history; with title, in red: “ Incipit liber Daretis frigii, de Troia,” fol. 89; together with a supplementary section. Begins : “ Pelevs rex in peloponenso.” Ends: “ Andromacham et helenura M. cc. Hue usque historia Daretis frigij.” The supplementary section (f. 93 b) begins; “ Dardanus ex loue et Electra filia athalantis natus . ad italiam ex responsis locum mutans . per Trachiam Samoii insulam delatus est.” Ends : “ Asaracus Capem filium genuit . ex quo Anchises editus Eneam filium procreauit. Finit.” The present copy of the history contains sections, which answer to the chapters of the modern printed editions much moi-e closely than is usual in the MS. copies. The supplementary section in the present copy is nearly the same as that printed as an introduction to the whole work in the edition published at Kome, 1475, where it begins: “[OJrigo Troianorvm Dardanus fvit: qui ex loue et electra ”; and ends: “ qui Hilneam filium procreauit.” Royal 6. C. viii. fl. 123-133 b. Vellum; early xiiith cent. Folio; £f. 11, in double columns, having 37 lines to a cohzmn. With initials in blue, green, and red. The volume formerly belonged to the Abbey of St. Mary’s at Eivaulx, in Yorkshire. The Histories of Paulus Orosius occupy ff. 1-122 b. Dares Phrygius. Divided into 50 chapters, of which the first is the Epistle from Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, and which are preceded by a list of chapters. Latin. Imperfect, so far as this volume is concerned: the list beginning at chapter XLi , and the work itself breaking off at the end of chapter XLVi. But the rest of the manuscript, as originally written, may be found in the Cotton MS. Vitellius C. viii., the list of chapters, from I. to XL., being at f. 19 b, and chapters xlvii.-l. of the work itself being at If. 2, 2 b. 1. The list of chapters. Beginning with chapter “ XLi. Egre.ssis indueijs . alexander aiacem uulnerat . moxque ab eo c
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