Jacques Rosenthal (München) (1895-)
Manuscript in three parts. The first part (f. 1r-20v) contains the oldest version of Gunzo's Epistola ad Augienses and can be dated to the 10th century. The second part (f. 21r-27v) probably is the original core of the codex, to which the other two pieces were added; it contains the autograph of Lambert of Hersfeld's Vita s. Lulli episcopi Moguntini and dates to the 11th century. The third part (f. 28r-43v) is from the 13th century and contains the transcripts of the Constitutiones of the Fourth Council of the Lateran (1215). This codex is from the Benedictine Tegernsee Abbey (the first part is mentioned in the monastery's library catalog); later it became part of the collection of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein and in 1948 the antiquarian book dealers Rosenthal sold it to Martin Bodmer. The old guard-leaves are fragments of a liturgical manuscript from the Diocese of Freising.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
- Jacques Rosenthal (München) (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gunzo, Novariensis (Author) | Jacques Rosenthal (München) (Seller) | Lambertus, Hersfeldensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Gunzo, Novariensis (Author) | Jacques Rosenthal (München) (Seller) | Lambertus, Hersfeldensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains the Adnotationes super Lucanum, preceded by the Vita Lucani by Vacca, a grammarian from late antiquity whom some date to the 6th-century. The codex probably was created in the Benedictine Abbey Tegernsee in Bavaria and later was part of the library of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein. As codex Wallersteinensis I.2, this text, together with four other textual witnesses, is the basis for the 1909 edition by Johannes Endt, which is still considered the reference edition today.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Jacques Rosenthal (München) (Seller) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Jacques Rosenthal (München) (Seller) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Ps. Vacca (Author) Found in: Standard description
A luxurious copy of the Life of Aesop, part historical and part legendary, that was compiled around 1300 by Maximos Planudes. These pages once constituted the first part of a manuscript of Aesop's Fables , which today is held primarily in New York. It was written in Florence between 1482 and 1485 by Démétrios Damilas, one of the main scribes at the court of the Medici, for Lorenzo the Magnificent's young son Piero II de' Medici, who was 10-12 years old at the time. On the splendid frontispiece one can recognize the portraits of Planudes and Piero II.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Jacques Rosenthal (München) (Seller) | Maximus, Planudes (Author) | Medici, Piero de' (Patron) | Rosenthal, Erwin (Seller) | Rosenthal, Jacques (Former possessor) | Rosenthal, Jacques (Seller) Found in: Standard description