Beinecke MS 332               France, s. XIII^^1/4
Lucan, Bellum Civile, with scholia

1. f. 1r [Upper margin, much rubbed and stained:]  Corduba me genuit
[rap]uit nero prelia dixi...michi coma placet.

     Epitaphium Lucani, 4 lines only; A. Riese, ed., Anthologia
latina (Leipzig, 1870) I, fas. 2: p. 126, no. 668.

2. ff. 1r-91v Bella per emathios plusquam ciuilia campos/ Iusque datum
sceleri canimus populumque potentem/...Ad campos epidanne tuos. ubi solus
apertis/ Obsedit muris calcantem menia magnum.  Explicit liber lucani
[added later:] decimus. Amen.

     Lucan, Bellum civile; A. E. Housman, ed., M. Annaei Lucani Belli
civilis libri decem (Cambridge, Mass., 1926; reprinted 1950) pp. 1-324;
a new Teubner text is being prepared by G. Luck.  For a discussion of the
transmission of the text see R. J. Tarrant in Reynolds, Texts and
Transmission, pp. 215-18.

3. ff. 1r-91v Scholia for art. 2, beginning at Bk. I, line 12: hic tangit
bellum illud quod fecit cesar cum filijs maioribus pompei compremandam [?]
ciuitatem ispanie...; preceding Book II: In principio huius secundi libri
continetur questio Romanorum de preuiso infortunio futuro tum uirorum...;
on Book II.3: prescia. scilicet sciant et cognoscant futuras clades melius
enim esset....  Paragraph at conclusion of text, f. 91v:  Intentio lucani
est in hoc opere dissuadere ciuile bellum per utrumque scilicet pompeium
et cessarem...hanc auctoritatem secutus.  Remainder of leaf contains an
unidentified text, now almost completely erased.

     Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 91 + i (paper), 235 x 108 (177 x 60) mm.
42-45 lines of verse.  Agenda format. Double or triple vertical bounding
lines, full
length; upper horizontal ruling sometimes extends full width.  Ruled in
lead. Prickings in upper and lower margins; remains of prickings for text
rulings on outer edge, often on additional vertical ruling that delineates
column for scholia.
     I-XI^^8, XII^^4 (-4).  Slip of parchment contemporary with text has been
inserted after f. 30 to supply lines IV.466-99 omitted on f. 31r.  Catchwords
in center of lower margin, verso, often with decorative flourishes or enclosed
by rectangle.
     Main text written above and below top line in a small early gothic bookhand
by two scribes.  Scribe 1: ff. 1r-37r; Scribe 2: ff. 37v-91v.  First letter
of each verse written to left of text between double rulings or on middle of
three rulings; right-hand margin justified.  Scholia, primarily at beginning
of codex, written in a contemporary hand; for other marginalia see Provenance below.
     Decorative initials, red or blue, 12- to 4-line, with simple designs in
opposite color, for each book.  Rubrics added sporadically.  Plan of
Brindisi appears in the margin of f. 15v (II.610) to illustrate Caesar's
siege of the city (cf. B. M. Marti, ed., Arnulfi Aurelianensis: Glosule
super Lucanum [Rome, 1958] p. lxvi); on f. 47v is a schematic circular
drawing (accompanying VI.333 ff.) of Paulus in the center, surrounded by
Pelion, Ossa, Otrix, Pindus and Olympus.
     Rubbing, staining, trimming of leaves, and worm holes result in some
loss of text and scholia.
     Binding:  s. xix.  Light brown pigskin, blind-tooled, with brass
fastenings.

Written in France in the first quarter of the 13th century.  The codex bears
evidence of much early use (e.g., marginalia and corrections of text,
s. xiv, by an Italian writing gothic script, ff. 86r, 89v, etc.; extensive
notes by an Italian humanist, s. xv/xvi).  Early modern provenance otherwise
unknown.  Acquired from Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, the German publisher,
bookseller, and auctioneer in 1964 by L. C. Witten; purchased from Witten
in 1965 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.

secundo folio:  In medio dum

Barbara A. Shailor