CATULLUS 68 - Scuola Normale Superiore

38 Hamburg – Stadt- und Universitäts-Bibliothek, Scrin. 139. 4. ca. 1460-70
40 Leiden – Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Voss. lat. in oct. 59. 1453
42 Leiden – Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Voss. lat. in oct. 51. ca. 1460?
45 London – British Library Additional Ms. 11674. 1450-75
46 London – British Library Additional Ms. 11915. 1460-70?
48 London – British Library Burney 133. 1470-80?
49 London – British Library Harley 2574. ca. 1460?
50 London – British Library Harley 2778. ca. 1450-75
52 London – British Library Egerton 3027. 1467
56 Milan – Biblioteca Ambrosiana H 46 sup. ca. 1460-70
58 Milan – Biblioteca Ambrosiana M 38 sup. ca. 1430-40?
59 Milan – Biblioteca Nazionale di Brera (Braidense) AD xii 37. slightly before 1450? 183
66 Naples – Biblioteca Nazionale IV. F. 61. 1505?
69 Oxford – Bodleian Library lat. class. e. 3. ca. 1460-70?
73 Oxford – Bodleian Library Canonicianus class. lat. 33. 1450+
75 Oxford – Bodleian Library Laud. Lat. 78. ca. 1460-70
78 Paris – Bibliothèque Nationale Par. lat. 7989. 1423
82 Paris – Bibliothèque Nationale Par. lat. 8232. ca. 1450-1475
84 Paris – Bibliothèque Nationale Par. lat. 8234. ca. 1450?
85 Paris – Bibliothèque Nationale Par. lat. 8236. ca. 1500
86 Paris – Bibliothèque Nationale Par. lat. 8458. 1474+
90 Pesaro – Biblioteca Oliveriana 1167. 1470
98 Vatican – Barberini lat. 34 mid-15 th -cent.
103 Vatican – Palatinus lat. 910. ca. 1475?
104 Vatican – Palatinus lat. 1652. prob. ca. 1455
105 Vatican – Urbinas lat. 641. ca. 1465-70
106 Vatican – Urbinas lat. 812. 1502+ 184
107 Vatican – Chisianus H. IV. 121. ca. 1467?
108 Vatican – Vaticanus latinus 1608. 1479
109 Vatican – Vaticanus latinus 1630. ca. 1425
110 Vatican – Vaticanus latinus 3269. ca. 1470
113 Vatican – Vaticanus latinus 7044. 1520
115 Venice – Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Marc. lat. 12.80. 1398-1400
116 Venice – Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Marc. lat. 12.81. ca. 1460-70?
117 Venice – Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Marc. lat. 12.86. ca. 1440-50?
118 Venice – Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Marc. lat. 12.153. ca. 1460-70
119 Venice – Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Marc. lat. 12.127. notes from 1502 185
122 Vicenza – Biblioteca Bertoliana G. 2.8.12 (216). 1460
126 Wolfenbüttel – Herzog August Bibliothek Gudianus lat. 65.2 Aug. 8° 1486+
128 Wolfenbüttel – Herzog August Bibliothek Gudianus lat. 332. 1460+ 186
182
Inside the front cover of this MS and on its last page the hand that has copied part of the codex (including part of the Tibullan
corpus and the Epistola Sapphus) has added astronomical data. Inside the cover an example is drawn from the year 1457, while on
the last page there is an overview of data for the years 1457-1464; these were evidently added in 1457. The codex was copied by five
different hands, evidently over a longer period of time, as is shown by the fact that the first hand, which copied Cat. 1.1-64.278, used
one exemplar (G or more likely a descendant of it), while the second hand, which copied Cat. 64.279-116.8, used another, “an
exemplar descended from R” (thus Ullman 1960: 1053, with good reason, as the scribe incorporates into the text readings that are
absent from R; ignore the straight line leading from R to this MS in the stemma at Thomson 1997: 93). If successive scribes copying
this MS used different exemplars, it is no longer possible to date all the work to 1457; but it can hardly have taken place much
earlier.
183
Tibullus, added by the same hand after Catullus’ poems, is dated 1450; but “Cat. written within a few years prob. of Tib.- there
are difs. in t. letters, due to being written at dif. time” (B.L. Ullman in the collation of the codex now conserved at Chapel Hill, North
Carolina).
184
Thomson dates this MS tentatively to 1495-1500, but it must be later than the first Aldine edition of 1502, from which it draws
readings (e.g. 68.157 dominam dedit), though it certainly does not follow the Aldine consistently and thus it cannot have descended
from it. It displays some characteristic features of earlier editions, notably the transposition of 62.11 after 62.12, so it could well
descend from a copy of one of these, e.g. of the 1475 Venice edition, that had been corrected against the Aldine. The wholesale
dislocations in the last part of the book deserve further study and may well suggest that there should have intervened another MS
between the emended printed edition and the present codex.
185
This is a copy of the first Aldine edition of 1502 with notes that were added in 1530 by Donato Giannotti, who copied the
annotations of Francesco Pucci, which he had made in 1502 (see Thomson 1997: 88, on no. 119).
186
If Thomson (1997: 88, on no. 122) is right to suppose that 128 descends from 122, which is dated 1460, then it must have been
written slightly later.
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