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Opera philosophica / Cicero, VLF 86

Contains philosophical works by Cicero: (ff. 1r-10r, 14v-59r and 171v-176v) De natura deorum. - (ff. 10v-14r and 59r-102r) De divinatione. - (ff. 102r-103r and 171r-v) De fato. Excerpts. - (ff. 103r-109r) Topica. Incomplete. - (ff. 109r-114r and 116v-118v) Paradoxa Stoicorum. - (ff. 114v-116v and 118v-144v) Lucullus. - (ff. 144v-162v and 170r-192v) De legibus. - Also contains: (ff. 163v-169r) Timaeus / Plato. Excerpts.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Plato.
Christina (1626-1689)
Petau, Alexandre (-1672)
Vossius, Isaac (1618-1689)
Benedictines of SS. Peter and Paul, male, Corbie
Cathedral of St. Mary, Reims

VLF 86

Reading culture
Reading culture (monastic)
manuscripts (documents)
artes (MMDC)
classical literature/philosophy (MMDC)

Middle Ages
9th century

3 leaves (between ff. 103-104) were moved to VLF 84 (now ff. 80-82) in 1860.
Origin and date: "Wohl Nordostfrankreich, IX. Jh., Mitte", according to Bischoff 2004. Gumbert 1996 suggests: second quarter 9th century.
Script: Contains corrections in two hands, added shortly after completion.
Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Rebound using medieval techniques (1997): half leather over wooden boards; bookblock sewn on three supports; two eye-and-pin fastenings (closing on front board edge).
Textual: (ff. 1r-59r) Part of De divinatione is written after the first book of De natura deorum. - (ff. 103r-109r) Text is mixed up. First leaf has been moved to VLF 84 in 1860. - (ff. 109r-118v) Mixed with Lucullus. - (ff. 114v-116v and 118v-144v) Second part of the Academica priora, of which the first part is now lost. A later redaction (but from Cicero's age) of the same work is called the Academica posteriora. - (ff. 144v-192v) Mixed with excerpts from Timaeus and parts of De fato and De natura deorum. (ff. 163v-169r) Translation and adaptation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero. -
Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (De Meyier 1973): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:108120
Also described by MMDC.

Auvray-Assayas 1997 = C. Auvray-Assayas, 'L'ordre de deuxième livre du De natura deorum de Cicéron'. In: Revue d'histoire des textes 27 (1997), p. 87-108,
Auvray-Assayas 1997 = C. Auvray-Assayas, 'Lórdre du deuxième livre du "De natura deorum" de Cicéron. Ange Politien et la philologie moderne'. In: Revue d'histoire des textes 27 (1997), p. 87-108. [See also: bibliographie annuelle du moyen-âge tardif 8 (1998), nr. 253]
Badalì 1968 = R. Badalì, 'Sui codici dei Paradoxa di Cicerone'. In: Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 10 (1968), p. 27-58.
Bailo & 2022 = A. Bailo & E. Malaspina, ‘For a Pre-history and Post-history of the Corpus Leidense. With a List of the Manuscripts of De natura deorum’. In: Lexis n.s. 40 (2022)/2, p. 467-526,
Bischoff 1994 = B. Bischoff, Manuscripts and libraries in the age of Charlemagne. Cambridge 1994.
Bischoff 2004 = B. Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts. Vol. 2 (Wiesbaden 2004),
Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023
Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932),
De Meyier 1973 = K.A. de Meyier, Codices Vossiani Latini. Vol. 1. Codices in folio (Leiden 1973),
Di Maria 1994 = G. Di Maria (ed.), Marcus Tullus Cicero. Topica. Palermo 1994.
Garrison 2011 = M. Garrison, 'Questions and observations based on transcribing the commentary on Books IV and IV, Dialectic and Rhetoric'. In: M. Teeuwen & S. O'Sullivan (eds.), Carolingian scholarship. Ninth-century commentary traditions on De nuptiius in Context. Turnhout 2011, p. 147-176.
Guardì 1974 = T. Guardì (ed.), Cecilio Stazio. I frammenti. Palermo 1974,
Gumbert 1996 = J.P. Gumbert, 'Cicerones Leidenses'. In: C.A. Chavannes-Mazel & M.M. Smith (eds.), Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics. Production and Use. Los Altos Hills/London 1996, p 208-244,
Malaspina 2011 = E. Malaspina, 'Primae notulae ad Luculli Ciceroniani recentiores recensendos'. In: A. Balbo & al. (eds.)'Tanti affetti in tal momento'. Studi in onore di Giovanna Garbarino. Alessandria 2011,
Malaspina 2013 = E. Malaspina,, ‘Lupo e "Adoardo" nel Lucullus di Cicerone: congetture carolinge e tradizioni perdute nel Corpus Leidense?’. In: Rationes Rerum. Rivista di filologia e storia 16 (2013), p. 251-288
Malaspina & 2014 = E. Malespina & al., 'I manoscritti del Lucullus di Cicerone in Vaticana. Valore filologico e collacazione stemmatica'. In: Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolica Vaticanae 20 (2014), p. 589-620,
Malaspina 2018 = E. Malaspina, ‘A tradição manuscrita do Lucull us de Cícero: do corpus Leidense a William de Malmesbury e à fortuna no período humanístico = The manuscript tradition of Cicero’s Lucullus: from the corpus Leidense down to William of Malmesbury and its fortune during the Humanism)’. In: M. Martinho & I. Tardin Cardoso (eds.), Cícero: Obra e Recepção. Coimbra 2018, p. 18-53
Mazal 2003 = O. Mazal, Frühmittelalter. Graz 2003. 2 vols.,
MMDC = Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
Molhuysen 1902 = P.C. Molhuysen, 'Die Tironiana der Universitäts-Bibliothek in Leiden'. In: Archiv für Stenographie 54 (1902), p. 161-173.
Montanari 1976 = E. Montanari, 'Considerazioni su una presunta coppia sinonimica nel Timeo ciceroniano'. In: Studi Italiani Di Filologia Classica 48 (1976), p. 244-253,
Mostert 1989 = M. Mostert, The library of Fleury. A provisional list of manuscripts. Hilversum 1989.
Munk Olsen 1982 = B. Munk Olsen, L'étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles. Vol. 1. Catalogue des manuscrits classiques latins copiés du IXe au XII siècles: Apicius-Juvénal (Paris 1982).
Senguerdius & 1716 = W. Senguerdius & al., Catalogus librorum tam impressorum quam manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden 1716,
Tura 2005 = A. Tura, 'Essai sur les "marginalia" en tant que pratique et documents'. In: D. Jacquart & C. Burnett (eds.), Scientia in margine. Genève 2005, p. 261-387,
Victor 2003 = B. Victor, 'Simultaneous copying of classical texts, 800-1100: techniques and their consequences'. In: H. Spilling (ed.), La collaboration dans la production de l'écrit médiéval. Actes du XIII colloque du Comité international de paléographie latine. Paris 2003, p. 347-358,
Wisse 2000 = J. Wisse, '[Review:] M.L. Riccio Colleti (ed.), M. Tulli Ciceronis Topica. Chieti 1994'. In: Gnomon 72 (2000), p. 175-178.

In collection:

Vossius, I. (1618-1689)

Latin

Netherlands

France, northeastern part, 9th century, mid