Main Manuscripts, Hiremias, and Murgia

T

bits of 62

9th C - carolingian Miniscule. Parchment. also contains Martial

O

Carmina - incomplete, no titles, some initials, marginal notes.

14th C, Italian Gothic miniscule (rotunda). Historiated initial 1r later than text. Questions around hand of marginalia. parchment

G

Carmina and other verses. A few titles and marginal notes. Most copied from m by G² who also added corrections.

Verona 1375.

Italian Gothic miniscule, rotunda.

Scribe Antonio del Gaoi de Legnano, Parchment

R

1r: versus domini Benevenuti … de resurrectione Catulli Veronensis

1r-37r Carmina.

first hand contributed small number of titles and marginalia - most by Coluccio Salutati R² who added cojectures. also other later annotating hands.

Florence 1385 - ca. 1395

Italian Gothic Miniscule, rotunda. parchment.

divisions noted through interstices - more than O or G

Metre of 1-60

majority hendecasyllables

4 - iambic senarius (iambic trimeter composed of 6 iambs)

8 - limping iambics

11 and 51 in sapphics

How are 61-8 grouped

carmina docta - longer narrative poems

61 - glyconics and pherecrateans

metre of 65-116

elegiac couplets

Hiremias (evidence he knew V) - Codex 1

C. 1

Hiremias Codex 2

c. 2-3

Hiremias Codex 3

c. 4

Hiremias Codex 4

c. 5-7

Hiremias codex 5

c. 8-60

Hiremias codex 6

c. 61

Hiremias codex 7

c. 62-3

Hiremias codex 8

c. 64

Hiremias codex 9

c. 65-8

Hiremias codex 10

c. 69-71

Hiremias codex 11

c. 72-6

Hiremias codex 12

c. 77-116

What are Murgia’s categories for division?

2000

Good ending

Good beginning

A break marked by change in sequence - metre, addressee change, change in focus through name not matching previous lines, change in situation, change in tense.