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Other Title:

Coniecturarum et opinionum liber

Subjects:

Propertius, Sextus -- Criticism and interpretation.
Tibullus -- Criticism and interpretation.
Plautus, Titus Maccius -- Criticism and interpretation.
Plautus, Titus Maccius.
Tibullus.
Propertius, Sextus.
Elegiac poetry, Latin.
Satire, Latin.
Criticism, Textual.
Criticism and interpretation.
Satire, Latin -- Criticism, Textual.

Form/Genre:

Elegiac poetry, Latin.
Codices.
Commentaries.
Engravings (prints)
Satires (document genre)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin, with quotations in Greek.

Biography/History:

Professor of Latin at the Collège de France in Paris from 1572 until his death in 1602.

Summary:

Contains three drafts (two partial) of Coniecturarum et opinionum liber, a commentary on Propertius, Tibullus, and Plautus, later printed as Coniecturarum liber in Paris in 1612, as well as fragments of Lucilius and Naevius with interlinear commentaries.

Contents:

1. f.1r-97v: Coniecturarum et opinionum liber / Jean Passerat.
2. f.98r-105v: Coniecturarum liber I / Jean Passerat.
3. f.106r-115v: Coniecturarum liber I / Jean Passerat.
4. f.118r-181v: Veterum poematum qua divulsa ac lacera supersunt tomus alter / Gaius Lucilius, Gnaeus Naevius.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption heading of the predominant work.
Foliation: Paper, i + 182 + i; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Each work except the second has separate contemporary pagination: work 1, p.1-41 is f.1-21, p.42-74 is f.25-41, p.74-79 is f.41v-44, p.80-118 is f.49-68, p.119-157 is f.71-90; work 3, p.1-20 is f.106-115v; work 4, p.1-130 is f.118-182v.
Layout: Work 2 has 45-65 lines per page, work 3 has 45-55 lines per page, work 4 has 23-27 lines per page, all with bounding lines in lead.
Script: Written in a semi-Gothic cursive (works 1-3) and humanistic cursive (work 4) script, possibly by Jean Passerat.
Decoration: Engraved print portrait of Jean Passerat, probably dating from 1598, pasted into this codex (f. i verso).
Watermark: Briquet Colonne 4433 (1564), Briquet Chien 3639 (1563), Briquet Lettre. B 8079 (1580).
Binding: 18th-century morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Paris, France between 1572 and 1599 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Possibly sold in the collection of L.-J.-N. Monmerqué by L. Potier (Paris), 12 May 1851, lot 2818 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts).
Sold by Paul Jammes (Paris), 1962.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 43 (Ms. Latin 184).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1068

Contributor:

Lucilius, Gaius, approximately 180 B.C.-approximately 102 B.C.
Naevius, Gnaeus, approximately 270 B.C.-approximately 200 B.C.
Monmerqué, L.-J.-N. (Louis-Jean-Nicolas), 1780-1860, former owner.

Related Work:

Lucilius, Gaius, approximately 180 B.C.-approximately 102 B.C. Saturae.
Naevius, Gnaeus, approximately 270 B.C.-approximately 200 B.C. Bellum Poenicum.

OCLC:

175291636