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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    Additional 10,094, ff, i-ub. Vellum; xvth cent. Quarto; ff. 14, having 31 to 32 lines to a page. With 15 initials in red. Bound up with other articles of various dates, one of which (f. 66) has the inscription: “ Liber Sancte Marie in Parcho ” [near Louvain]. The volume is from Eichard Heber’s collection. Daees Phhygius. Divided into sections by the 15 red initials, of which the first belongs to the introductory epistle, and the last two belong to two supplementary sections (not the usual ones, but) abridged from Dictys Cretensis. Latin. General title, in red : “ Incipit historia Troiana Daretis phrigii.” 1. The epistle, f. 1. Title, in red : “Prologus in'historiam troianam daretis.” f. 1. Begins: “ Cornelius nepos Salustio crispo salutem.” Ends: ‘‘ Ita nunc ad policitum reuertar.” f. 1. 2. The history itself, with two supplementary sections. If. 1- 14 b. The history itself begins; “ Pelias rex fuit in pelopenenso.” Ends: “ Andromacham et helenum mille cc hucusque hysteria daretis perscripta fuit.” The first supplementary section (which is an account of the doings of .(Eneas and Antenor, abridged from the end of the fifth book of Dictys Cretensis) begins: “ Igitur eneas cum ad hue apud troiam post profectionem maneret grecorum cunctos ex archadia.” Ends: “ Nunc reditum nostrorum narrare libet.” The second supplementary section (which is an account of the return of the Greeks, ending with the death of Ulysses, abridged from the entire sixth book of Dictys Cretensis) begins; “ Igitur postquam impositis cunctis que singuli bello acquisierant.” Ends : “ ab eo quern miuime credit volueratus obijt senior iam prouecte- que etatis neque tamen inualidus uir[i]um.” To this are added the following lines : “ Forsitan lector diuersa requirit uocabula infrascripta Cognoscat quod gri [sic] graiugeiie uel argiui uel achiui greci fuerunt . Medi mirmidones caldei . Dardani . Troiaui qui et friges . Ilium troia ab illo \llio] rege condita . Troia vero a troilo rege dicta.” In the edition of Dictys Cretensis by Andreas Dederich, Bonn,
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