Manuscript Summary:Although the Aesopian tradition enjoyed great popularity during the middle ages, thanks to the dissemination of Latin translations, the Greek text of the fabulist was first rediscovered during the Renaissance. CB 5, which was written on paper near the end of the 15th century, is a collection of some 150 fables ascribed to the poet, which served as an inspiration for La Fontaine. Following are, among other things, the Delphic prophecies of Pseudo-Pythagoras, which transmit the well-known aphorism "Know thyself!", and The Clouds, the comedy that made the Athenian writer Aristophanes famous.(jos)
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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 5
Paper · 96 ff. · 21 x 15.4/15.6 cm · about 1491
Aesopus, Fabulae, Epigrammata et proverbia, Oraculum sibyllinum · Ps. Pythagoras, Carmen aureum, Praecepta delphica · Phocylides, Sententiae · Aristophanes, Nubes, Vita Aristophanis, Hypothesis in Aritophanis Plutum
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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 5, Front cover – Aesopus, Fabulae, Epigrammata et proverbia, Oraculum sibyllinum · Ps. Pythagoras, Carmen aureum, Praecepta delphica · Phocylides, Sententiae · Aristophanes, Nubes, Vita Aristophanis, Hypothesis in Aritophanis Plutum (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/fmb/cb-0005)
Notes préparatoires, publiées ici à la demande de la Bibliotheca Bodmeriana. Notice complète parue dans : Patrick Andrist, Manuscrits grecs de la Fondation Martin Bodmer. Étude et catalogue scientifique, Catalogues Bodmer 8, Basel 2016, p. 25-45.
Manuscript title: Aesopus, Fabulae. – Epigrammata et proverbia. – Oracula sibyllina. – Ps. Pythagoras, Carmen aureum. – Praecepta Delphica. – Phocylides, Sententiae. – Aristophanes, Nubes. – Vita Aristophanis. – Hypothesis in Aristophanis Plutum
1.a.
(f. 1r-35r sup.)
prior series 126 fabularum eo ordine qui in familia IIIα praebetur (cf. ed. A. Hausrath, H. Hunger, Teubner, t. 1, Leipzig 1970, p. xxxiii-xxxviii ; t. 2, Leipzig 1959, p. vii-x). Textus formam praebet familiae III, nonnullas tamel lectione familiae IIIβ, rarius familiae IIIγ proprias.
(f. 35r med.)
subscriptio:
διὰ Ἀνγέλου [sic] Κλαρετοῦ Βριξιαίου |Tertio Idus Decembrisᾳ . υ . Ҁ . α (= 11.12.1491) ; cf. infra f. 62v, 95v.
1.b.
(f. 35r inf.-42r sup.)
altera series quae 26 fabulis numeris 128 usque ad 153 notatis constat. Scriptura et orthographia saepe mendosae sunt.
6.
(f. 94v-95r sup.) vita Aristophanis. Haec vita non congruit cum illis quas edidit W. J. W. Koster (Prolegomena de comoedia. Scholia in Acharnenses, Equites, Nubes, Scholia in Aristophanem, t. 1.1A, Groningen 1975, p. 133-150)
7.
(f. 95r inf.-v) hypothesis in Aristophanis Plutum.
Catalogue of the celebrated collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps Bt. (1792-1872). The property of the Trustees of the Robinson Trust. Days of Sale: Tuesday 28th November 1967 […] , Bibliotheca Phillippica, Medieval Manuscripts, n. s. 3, London 1967. – Cf. p. 97-98 n° 119.
Catalogus Librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, Bart., Middle-Hill 1837. Réimpr. avec intro. de A. N. L. Munby, London 1968. – Cf. p. 151 no 9501.
Schenkl Heinrich, Bibliotheca patrum latinorum Britannica, t. IV-V, = Die Bibliothek des verstorbenen Sir Thomas Philipps (!) in Cheltenham, Sitzungsber. der Kaiser. Akad. der Wiss. Wien., Philos.-hist. Kl. 126, Abh. 6, Wien 1892; 127, Abh. 9, Wien 1892. – Cf. Abh. 9, p. 29 no 9501.