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Two Manuscripts of Suetonius' de Vita Caesarum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. J. Dunston
A. J. Dunston
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University of Reading
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There is in the British Museum a twelfth-century manuscript, Egerton 3055, of Suetonius' De Vita Caesarum which has not previously been noticed by editors or in the reports of manuscripts of Suetonius made by Professor C. L. Smith and Professor A. A. Howard, though summarily classified by E. G. Millar.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 3-4 , December 1952 , pp. 146 - 151
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1952

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page 146 note 1 Harvard Studies, vol. xii, 1901, pp. 198ff.;vol. xvi, 1905, pp. 1 ff.Google Scholar

page 146 note 2 Ibid., vol. xvi, 1905, pp. 261 ff.

page 146 note 3 The Library of A. Chester Beatty. A Descrip-live Catalogue of the Western MSS., 1927, vol. i, text, pp. 111–12.Google Scholar

page 146 note 4 I am indebted to Dr. G. R. C. Davis of the Dept. of MSS. of the British Museum, who kindly placed his own notes on Σ at my that, disposal, and to M. P. Gras of the Biblio-thèque Publique, and M. Gremaud of the Archives Municipales, of Dijon, for the resolution of queries in connexion with Dijon and the St. Bénigne MSS. now there.

page 146 note 5 Haenel (1827), probably using at Middlehill the rare 1824 catalogue, classes Phillipps MSS. 363–86 as Ex Abbatia S. Gisleni. The 1837 catalogue shows clearly that, while this is true of MSS. 363–79, MSS. 380–6 are a group acquired from miscellaneous sources. Four of them, MSS. 383–6, come from Tournai, Beaupré, Count McCarthy, De Bure, respectively.

page 147 note 1 H. Omont, Cat. Gén. des MSS. des Bibl. Publ. de France, Départements, torn, v, pp. 453 ff. Two views are held on the nature of this catalogue: either that it is a catalogue of books in the abbey in 1621, or that it refers to additions made to the abbey library by Jeannin, the abbot at that time. The subscription in Σ would seem to support the former view.

page 147 note 2 For St. Bénigne, Montfaucon excerpted from the inventory drawn up in 1653 by Dom Benetot, but not now extant.

page 147 note 3 Cf. B. Prost, ‘Le Trésor de l'Abbaye de St. Dijon’, Bénigne de, in Mém. Soc. Bourguignonne de géographie et d'histoire, torn, x,1894Google Scholar, plates viii and IX. These reproduce some of the facsimiles, but do not include those of the Suetonius.

page 147 note 4 The Catalogue of Arundel and Burney MSS.remarks of Burney 59 ‘quondam, ut liquet ex collatione editionis Gudianae, monachorum Benedictinorum Diuionensium’. But see Thiele, G., Der lateinische Äsop des Romulus, Heidelberg, 1910Google Scholar, who concludes, pp.clxxxvi ff., that it is not in fact the manuscript used by Gudius at St. Bénigne.

page 147 note 5 Booksellers lived at other numbers in the Rue de Conde in Paris in the eighteenth century (Delalain, P., L'Imprimerie et la Librairie à Paris 1789/1813, p. 257Google Scholar). There was also, until the time of the Revolution when its name was changed, a commercial street of this name at Dijon.

page 147 note 6 ‘Troisième Étude sur l'histoire du texte de Suétone’ in Mémoires couronnis … publiés par l'Académie Royale des Sciences etc. de Belgique, vol. lxviii, 1903/4.

page 148 note 1 C. Suetonii Tranquilli De Vita Caesarum Libri VIII, rec. M. Ihm, ed. maior, Leipzig, 1907.1 follow throughout Ihm's appellations and classification of the MSS., and make references by page and line of this edition.

page 148 note 2 I have collated both MSS. fully, Σ in the original, S from photostats.

page 148 note 3 This abbreviation is used to indicate an attempt to translate into Latin a word or words written in Greek in the text. The Latin is written immediately above the Greek.

page 148 note 4 The following are the true readings of S which are omitted or incorrectly reported by Ihm in his otherwise accurate collation: 42. io coloni ad destruendas S: coloni ad extruendas S2 89. 5 genitarum S2 89. 22 in uno S 107. 13 enlaria S 107. 16 difellian ss.s.Gr. m1 S 139. 7 opera S 188. 8 alimonium S: -iam S2 202. 8 muninendus ss.s.Gr. m1 S 242. 11 diserent quos S 259. 2 S 259. 14 S 267. 14 non equitum neque peditum turma hinc me poterit ducere ss.s.GR.m1S

page 149 note 1 I use Σ2 to indicate a contemporary hand, probably that of the person who checked the work of the scribe of Σ with the exemplar S, immediately after the copying. The other hands in Σ are Σ3 (one marginal gloss Cent, XIII) and Σ4 (one marginal gloss Cent, vx, and very rare corrections).

page 150 note 1 Excluding points of orthography and punctuation.

page 151 note 1 Troyes MS. 521. Printed in extracts in Jubainville, H. d'Arbois de, Étude sur I'état intérieur des Abbayes cisterciennes et principalemerit de Clairvaux au siécle XII—XIII, Paris, 1858.Google Scholar

page 151 note 2 = Tissier, B., Bibliotheca Patrum Cister ciensium. Bonofonte, 1660—1669, iii, 267, 248.Google Scholar

page 151 note 3 They are still extant, and now at Troyes.