Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (ca.260/270-ca.334)
Cod. 207, presumably created in Fleury (St. Benoît-sur-Loire), is one of the few and by far the richest representative of a style that evolved in Fleury towards the end of the 8th century; with its extremely rich and high-quality artistic decoration, consisting of three ornamental pages and almost 140 initials, it is an outstanding example of the creative evolution that the insular language of forms underwent in the important cultural centers of the continent. The manuscript, consisting of 197 leaves in Bern as well as 24 leaves in Paris (BNF, lat. 7520), is the oldest grammar manuscript from Fleury; it contains an early medieval corpus of Roman grammarians from antiquity and from the early medieval period: Bede, Donatus, Maximus Victorinus, Julianus Toletanus, Servius Honoratus, Asper minor, Sergius, Petrus Pisanus, Isidore, as well as numerous other anonymous treatises and excerpts.
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carmen 25 (Anfang). (Br oben) Found in: Standard description
- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carmen 25 (Anfang). (Bv oben)
Incipit: Ardua componunt felices carmina Musae / Dissona conectunt diversis vincula metris / Scrupea pangentes torquentes pectora vates / Undique confusis constabunt singula verbis.
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carmen 15, 25 (Anfang). (79v) Found in: Standard description
- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carmen 15. (80v-81r)
Incipit: Incipit excerptum de panegirico Porfirii factum in Constantinum Augusto. In hac pagina primus versus ex disillabis partibus orationis constat
Explicit: dum redeunt Sotadici. Alme decus mundi tibi vates ardua metra.
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carmen 25 (Anfang). (81r)
Incipit: Hii quattuor versus omnes pari ratione conscripti sunt
Explicit: ut nullus sui similis sit. Ardua componunt felices carmina Musae / Dissona conectunt diversis vincula metris / Scrupea pangentes torquentes pectora vates / Undique confusis constabunt singula verbis.
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- Asper (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Iulianus, Toletanus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Maximus, Victorinus (Author) | Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (Author) | Petrus, Pisanus (Author) | Servius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex consists of two parts that were united in the 9th century already. The first part, written in Mainz (ff. 1-110), contains the second book of Cassiodorus' Institutiones, which is devoted to secular knowledge; since the 9th century, it has been preserved in several manuscripts in an interpolated version that contains Cassiodorus' remarks on grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy, supplemented with excerpts from Quintilian, Boethius, Augustine and others. The second part, written in Mainz or in Saint-Amand (ff. 111–126), contains the picture poems of Optatianus Porphyrius as well as some from the beginning of the reign of Charlemagne. A note in Jacques Bongars' own hand indicates that the manuscript - like many others - came into his possession from the chapter library of Strasbourg Cathedral.
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Panegyricus Constantino dictus. (111r–126v ) Found in: Standard description
- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Panegyricus Constantino dictus. (111r–122r) Found in: Standard description
- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Incipit. (111r)
Incipit: Publili Optatiani Porfyrii Panegiricus dictus Constantini Augusto incipit feliciter, darunter 111ra Carm. I. Quae quondam fueras pulchro decorata libello ..., daneben 111rb Schol. II. In hac pagina omnes ..., darunter Carm. II. Sancte tui vatis
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. III. (111va–b)
Incipit: Et haec pagina tricenas quinas
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. V. (112ra)
Incipit: Et in hac pagina tricenae quinae
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. VI. (112va–b)
Incipit: In hac adaeque pagina
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. VII. (113ra–b)
Incipit: Et in hac pagina tricenae quinae
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. VIII. (113va–b)
Incipit: Et in hac pagina omnium
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. IX. (114ra–b)
Incipit: In hac pagina per omnes
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. XX. (114va)
Incipit: In hac pagina organi species
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Epistola Porfyrii. (115r)
Incipit: Domino Constantino Maximo pio invicto et venerabili semper Augusto. Fateor
Explicit: suscitavit.
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Epistola Constantini. (115v)
Incipit: Invictus Constantinus Maximus Augustus. Si tantum
Explicit: captare.
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. X. (116ra–b)
Incipit: In hac pagina XXXV
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carm. XI. (116v )
Incipit: Fortia facta ducis
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carm. XII. (117r)
Incipit: Constantine pater
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. XIII. (117v)
Incipit: In hac pagina versus est
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. XIV. (118ra–b)
Incipit: In hac pagina tricenae quinae
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. XV. (118va)
Incipit: In hac pagina primus versus
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. XVI. (119ra–b)
Incipit: In hac pagina acrostichis
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Schol. XXI. (119va)
Incipit: In hac pagina deorsum
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carm. XVIII. (120r)
Incipit: Alme tuas laurus
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carm. XXII. (120v)
Incipit: Mirum opus
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carm. XXVI. (121r)
Incipit: Vides ut ara
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carm. XXIII. (121v)
Incipit: Ingemui graviter
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Carm. XXV. (122ra–b)
Incipit: Ardua componunt
Explicit: pectora verbis.
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- Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius: Bemerkung zum Inhalt: (122v) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hagen, Hermann (Librarian) | Josephus, Scotus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Marius Victorinus, Gaius (Author) | Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (Author) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) Found in: Standard description