Manuscript
Belgium, Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 4343-4344
Record No.
14
Former Shelfmark(s)
N/A

Physical Description

Format
Fragment (pastedown)
Support
Parchment
Size of Leaves
- x - mm.
Number of Leaves
1
Collation
N/A
Foliation
N/A
Layout
2 columns, 26 (?) lines.
Hands
Written in one hand.
Scribe(s)
Unknown.

Contents

Language(s)
Latin
Contents

1. [fol. 1ra]: Ilias Latina

[beginning missing]

2. [fols 1ra-1rb]: Dares of Phrygia (Dares Phrygius), De excidio Troiae historia [extract]

[fol. 1v: blank]

History

Date of Origin
End of the tenth century
Place of Origin
Unknown.
Notes

A single leaf turned sideways and used as a pastedown for the front and back of the binding which has since come loose on both ends. No visible foliation. Faivre d’Arcier siglum BHom.

Additional Information

Online Facsimile

N/A

Bibliography

Edition(s)

Dares of Phrygia. Daretis Phrygii. De excidio Troiae historia. Edited by Ferdinand Meister. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1873. [open access]

Secondary Literature

Faivre d’Arcier, Louis. Histoire et géographie d’un mythe: La circulation des manuscrits du ‘De Excidio Troiae’ de Darès le Phrygien (VIIIe-XVe siècles). Mémoires et documents de l’Ecole des chartes 82. Paris: École des chartes, 2006. 108.

Yavuz, N. Kıvılcım. “Late Antique Accounts of the Trojan War: A Comparative Look at the Manuscript Evidence.” Pecia. Le Livre et l’écrit 17 (2016): 149–70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.PECIA.5.111766.

Last Updated on
September 10, 2018
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