Commentaries on Cicero's Topica and Plato's Timaeus

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Title: Commentaries on Cicero's Topica and Plato's Timaeus
Published / Created: [ca. 1200]
Publication Place: France (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (badly damaged by moist; repaired using brownish paper) of 1) Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Commentaria in Ciceronis Topica. 2-3) Chalcidius (400-410), Commentum in Platonis Timaeum
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by two hands in Praegothica: A copied art. 1, B copied artt. 2-3.
A 5-line plain Romanesque initial in green at the beginning of art. 1 and a 2-line plain initial in blue on f. 1rb, both with a guide-letter in the margin. Space reserved for a 3- or 4-line initial on f. 3vb at the opening of chapter 49 (see art. 2). Two musical diagrams in pen and ink (see art. 2).
Ff. 2r-3v: due to the severe damage to the inner lower part of the leaves, four large sections of text are missing, including part of the triangular diagram of musical proportions on f. 2v. On f. 4, losses of text due to the defective state of the inner margin and several holes in the parchment.
With the fragments are kept the modern paper flyleaves, one cardboard board and some minor fragments of a binding of considerable dimensions (flyleaves 340 x 215 mm.). On one of the flyleaves the following pencil notes: "Fragment Boetius de musica"; "Phillipps sale May 1913" and "Ms. Ph(illipps) 20690".
Extent: ff. 4 : 285 x 205 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Boethius, -524.
Calcidius.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Plato.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Scholasticism
Subjects: Boethius, -524
Calcidius
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Plato
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Scholasticism
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Commentaries on Cicero's Topica and Plato's Timaeus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.