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  • Codices Boethiani, A Conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius II, ed. by Smith Lesley, London-Turin 2001, p. 202-203, Nr. 58.
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  • Lohr Carolus, Aristotelica Helvetica, Scrinium Friburgense (Sonderband 6), Freiburg 1994, S. 252.
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  • Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 278.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 821
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Codices Boethiani, A Conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius II, ed. by Smith Lesley, London-Turin 2001, p. 202-203, Nr. 58.

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Manuscript title: in Cat.
Place of origin: Germany or Switzerland
Date of origin: s. Xl
Support: Parchment
Extent: i + 96 + i pages
Format: page 276 x 181 mm
Condition: A functional, undecorated book on rough parchment.
Page layout: text 210-20 x 140 mm; 35-8 long lines, except for Ovid (pp. 94-96). Tituli, pp. 33 (bk II), 57 (bk III). Pages slashed horizontally and stitched with green thread, pp. 67-76.
Writing and hands: One scribe for pp. 2-93, similar scribes thereafter.
Decoration: Major initial missing, p. 2; minor initials in plain ink.
Additions: A few marginal headings, e.g. pp. 12-13. Miscellaneous notes throughout, but no systematic marginalia.
Binding: Cheap s. xviii binding.
Contents:
  • P. 1 s. xviii mid contents list;
  • 2-93 in Cat.
  • 94-96 Ovid: Ars amatoria i.1-230, mutilated at end.
Provenance of the manuscript: Germany or Switzerland.
Acquisition of the manuscript: St Gall (stamp, p. 1).
Bibliography:
  • Scherrer, p. 278;
  • AL, 1164;
  • E. J. Kenney, 'The Manuscript Tradition of Ovid's Amores,Ars Amatoria, and Remedia Amoris', The Classical Quarterly, n.s. 12, 1962, pp. 1-31 [2];
  • Munk Olsen, II, pp. 162-3;
  • Lohr, AH, p. 252.