[olim kps. 20/12] Parchment, 2 ff., c. 17 × 21 & 19 × 21 cm; Italy, c. 1000
Vitae Patrum, liber V: Verba senorium, libellus decimus
The contents of the four pages are:
3125 recto: "excitati eruditione et scientia nullas virtutes … iterum plantaturus est ea" (PL 73 913A-B)
3125 verso: "estus grandis qui quando exarserit … verbosus et detractor; et respondit ego sum" (PL 73 913B-D)
3126 recto: "quoniam animę suę detrimentum … noxia magis quam" (PL 73 915C-916A)
3126 verso: "nunquam eum vidit quisquam … mundum esse in conspectu eius" (PL 73 916A-B)
The fragment has been used as cover of an unidentified book, possibly a copy of Johannes Marchesinus, Mammotrectus super Bibliam, cf. note on 3126 recto: ”Mamotrectus”
Bibl.: Katalog over Det Kongelige Biblioteks permanente Udstilling, København 1908, p. 2 no. 12 ("10. Aarh."). - E. A. Lowe, The Beneventan Script. A History of the South Italian Minuscule. Second Edition prepared and enlarged by Virginia Brown, vol. II, Hand List of Beneventan Mss., Roma 1980, p. 36 ("'Saec. X'"). – According to a handwritten note by Francis Newton (October 1985) "perhaps more likely saec. XI in."
Erik Petersen
