- Manuscript
- Austria, Rein, Stiftsbibliothek, 21
- Record No.
- 3
- Former Shelfmark(s)
- N/A
Physical Description
- Format
- Codex
- Support
- Parchment
- Size of Leaves
- 195 x 130 mm.
- Number of Leaves
- 195 + ii
- Collation
- -
- Foliation
- -
- Layout
- Single column, 22-26 lines.
- Hands
- Written in one hand.
- Scribe(s)
- Unknown.
Contents
- Language(s)
- Latin
- Contents
- [incomplete listing]
1. fols 167r-185r: Dares of Phrygia (Dares Phrygius), De excidio Troiae historia
1.1. fols 167r-167v: Translator’s prologue
Rubric: Incipit prologus Cornelii Romani in interpretatione de Greco in Latinum Troianae hystoriae.
Incipit: Cornelius Nepos Salustii Crispo suo salutem.
Explicit: Hactenus ita ad pollicitum revertamur.
1.2. fols 167v-184v: History
Incipit: Peleas rex in Peloponensi Esonem fratrem habuit.
Explicit: Eneas navibus profectus est in quibus Alexander in Greciam iearat ducentis quem omnis etas hominum secuta est in milibus tribus diomachum mille ducenti.
1.3. fols 184v-185r: List of fighters
Incipit: Qui Troianorum Grecorum principes occidere denotantur.
Explicit: Eneas Ascanium Nilium.
History
- Date of Origin
- End of the twelfth century
- Place of Origin
- -
- Notes
Faivre d’Arcier siglum RA.
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. 80.
- Last Updated on
- September 10, 2018
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