Manuscript
Belgium, Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 3897-3919
Record No.
12
Former Shelfmark(s)
N/A

Physical Description

Format
Codex
Support
Parchment
Size of Leaves
262 x 178 mm.
Number of Leaves
ii + 171 + iii
Collation
Unknown.
Foliation
-
Layout
Single column, 40 lines.
Hands
-
Scribe(s)
-

Contents

Language(s)
Latin
Contents
[incomplete listing]

1. fols 111r-120v: Dares of Phrygia (Dares Phrygius), De excidio Troiae historia

2. fols 120v-121r: Origo Troianorum

3. fols 121r-140v: Excidium Troie

History

Date of Origin
Second half of the twelfth century, 1150-1170/1180
Place of Origin
Central Italy
Notes

This is a copy of Liber Guidonis. Bate siglum B; Campopiano siglum B; Faivre d’Arcier siglum BL.

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]

Excidium Troie. Edited by Alan Keith Bate. Lateinische Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters 23. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1986.

Guido of Pisa. “Liber Guidonis compositus de variis historiis.” Studio ed edizione critica dei testi inediti. Editied by Michele Campopiano. Edizione Nazionale dei Testi Mediolatini 22 (Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008).

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. 98-99.

Last Updated on
September 10, 2018
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