Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (39-65)
This manuscript was created in Fleury; the first page is magnificently decorated with two large interlace initials, which represent a special type of insular decorative art. In addition to smaller pieces, this composite manuscript contains the epic poem De bello civili (Parsalia) by Lucan (middle of the 1st century) as well as a version of the Orestes myth by the African poet Dracontius (5th century). For the latter, this codex constitutes by far the oldest textual witness. The beginning of Lucan's text by is provided with an abundance of scholia; because of Cod. 370, which contains only scholia, they are known as the Commenta Bernensia.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: De Bello Civili. (1rb) Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: De Bello Civili, lib. I–X. (1vb–52va) Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber I. (1vb–6rb)
Incipit: >IB
Explicit: Haec ait, et lasso iacuit deserta furore. M. Annei Lucani belli civilis liber primus explicit.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber II. (6rb–10vb)
Incipit: Incipit liber secundus feliciter. Iamque irae patuere deum manifestaque belli
Explicit: Inmaculata sui servetur sanguine Magni. M. Annei Lucani belli civilis liber II explicit.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber III. (10vb–15va)
Incipit: Incipit liber III. Propulit ut classem velis cedentibus Auster
Explicit: Primus Caesareis pelagi decus addidit armis. M. Annei Lucani belli civilis liber III explicit.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber IV. (15va–20vb)
Incipit: Incipit liber IIII. At procul extremis terrarum Caesar in oris
Explicit: Concessa est? Emere omnes, hic vendidit urbem. M. Annei Lucani liber IIII explicit belli civilis.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber V. (20vb–25vb)
Incipit: Incipit liber V. Sic alterna duces bellorum vulnera passos
Explicit: Instabat miserae, Magnum quae redderet, hora. M. Annei Lucani belli civilis liber V explicit.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber VI. (25vb–31rb)
Incipit: Incipit liber VI feliciter. Postquam castra duces pugnae iam mente propinquis
Explicit: Iussa tenere diem densas nox praestitit umbras. M. Lucani belli civilis explicit liber VI.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber VII. (31rb–36vb)
Incipit: Incipit liber VII feliciter. Segnior, Oceano quam lex aeterna vocabat
Explicit: Et Mutina et Leucas puros fecere Philippos. M. Annei Lucani liber VII explicit.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber VIII. (36vb–42rb)
Incipit: Incipit liber VIII feliciter. Iam super Herculeas fauces nemorosaque Tempe
Explicit: Tam mendax Magni tumulo quam Creta Tonantis. M. Annei Lucani liber VIII explicit.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber IX. (42rb–49ra)
Incipit: Incipit liber VIIII feliciter. At non in Pharia manes iacuere favilla
Explicit: O bona libertas, cum Caesar lugeat, audent. M. Annei Lucani explicit liber VIIII.
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Liber X. (49rb–52va)
Incipit: Incipit liber X feliciter. Ut primum terras Pompei colla secutus
Explicit: Obsedit muris calcantem moenia Magnum. (nachgetragener Vers: Garrula tantorum titulis signata malorum) M. Annei Lucani liber X explicit.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Annotator) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Hyginus, Mythographus (Author) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) | Wild, Marquard (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, which was probably produced in Reims, consists of two parts that contain only the scholia on Lucan, but not the actual text. The first part (up to f. 125v) contains the scholia known as the Commenta Bernensia, which are preserved only in this codex. The text is interspersed with 21 simple schemata in color, geographic representations as well as plans of cities and of battles. The second, unfortunately incomplete part contains a collection of non-illustrated glosses (Adnotationes) for books 1 to 4 as well as 9 and 10 (beginning). As becomes clear from the content, the original plan of merging the Commenta and the Adnotationes into a single text was apparently abandoned in the middle of the first book of the Commenta, and the Adnotationes were copied separately in the last third of the manuscript (from f. 125v).
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Frechulf (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Ps. Vacca (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Leaf from a manuscript of Lucan's Bellum Civile. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Lucanus: De bello civili (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: De bello civili (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: De bello civili IX, 14–172. (1ra-vb)
Incipit: nostra dies risitque sui ludibria trunci
Explicit: in vultus effusa comas, Cornelia puppi
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- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This text by Lucan is accompanied by marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands, which are partly contemporaneous, partly later; the most recent in an Italian hand that can be dated to the 14th/15th century. In the margin of f. 69v is a simple drawing of the mappa mundi. At least until the end of the 18th century, the manuscript belonged to the Carmelites of S. Paolo in Ferrara.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: De bello ciuili (cum glossis) Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: De bello ciuili (f. 1-81v:)
Incipit: Bella per Emachios plus quam ciuilia campos
Explicit: Obsedit muris ca1cantem menia Magnum.
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- Arnulfus, Aurelianensis (Commentator) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Libri, Guillaume (Former possessor) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the Adnotationes super Lucanum, preceded by the Vita Lucani by Vacca, a grammarian from late antiquity whom some date to the 6th-century. The codex probably was created in the Benedictine Abbey Tegernsee in Bavaria and later was part of the library of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein. As codex Wallersteinensis I.2, this text, together with four other textual witnesses, is the basis for the 1909 edition by Johannes Endt, which is still considered the reference edition today.
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Annotationes super Lucanum Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Annotationes super Lucanum. (f. 1-81) Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Annotationes svper Lucanum (f. 1-81) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Jacques Rosenthal (München) (Seller) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Ps. Vacca (Author) Found in: Standard description
This work, also known by the title „Livre de Jules César,“ contains a collection of texts by Julius Caesar, Sallust, Suetonius and Lucan; it was written in the years 1211-1214. The author, still unknown, intended to recount the history of the first twelve Roman emperors, but he terminated this undertaking at the end of the story of the life of Julius Caesar. The decoration of the manuscript from Geneva is by various hands; the principal one, attributed to the „Maître de l'échevinage de Rouen,“ illustrated the title page. It shows the coat of arms of Louis de Bourbon, the illegitimate son of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon.
Online Since: 10/08/2015
- Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius: Les faits des Romains, compilés ensemble de Salluste, Suétone et Lucain ou le Livre de Jules CésarOn ne connait pas l’auteur de cette compilation. Il a utilisé comme sources principales la Vie de César de Suétone, la Conjuration de Catilina de Salluste, les Commentaires de la guerre des Gaules de César et la Pharsale de Lucain. Found in: Standard description
- Bourrit, Charles (Librarian) | Caesar, Gaius Iulius (Author) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Maître de l'Échevinage de Rouen (Illuminator) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan, 39-65 AD), "De bello civili" (also known as the "Pharsalia"). Epic poem on the civil war between Pompey and Caesar (48 - 45 BC).
Online Since: 06/12/2006
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Pharsalia libri decem Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Pharsalia libri decem (p. 1-270) Found in: Standard description
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex consists of four independently produced parts, probably not written in St. Gall: 1. Horace, Odae (incomplete at the end, with some glosses); 2. Lucan, Pharsalia (incomplete at the end, heavily glossed; 3. Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (complete) and De bello Iugurthino (with some chapters missing); 4. Ovid, Amores (incomplete at the end, heavily glossed) and a page from the Metamorphoseon.
Online Since: 03/31/2011
- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: M. A. Lucani Pharsalia (S. 119-267) Found in: Standard description
- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description