Persius Flaccus, Aulus (34-62)

This manuscript is part of a substantial Carolingian composite manuscript, the surviving parts of which today are held in the Burgerbibliothek Bern (Cod. 330, 347, 357), the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (Ms. Lat. 7665), and in the Universitätsbibliothek Leiden (Voss. Lat. Q 30). Cod. 330 contains the last part of the volume with works on orthography by Cassiodorus, Alcuin-Bede, Caper, Terentius Scaurus, Agroetius, as well as several other texts.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Agroecius, Senonensis (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caper, Flavius (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Scaurus, Quintus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description

Single leaf of a manuscript probably produced in France containing Persius' Saturae. The fragment, with its numerous interlinear and marginal glosses, came to Bern in 1632 as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Persius: Saturae (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Saturae (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Persius: Satura VI, 61–80. (1r–v)
Incipit: qui prior es, cur me in decursu lampada poscas
Explicit: inventus, Crisippe, tui finitor acervi.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) Found in: Standard description

Many scribes contributed to the copies of the works of Horace, Virgil, Persius and Statius that have been brought together in CB 90. These humanistic re-copyings made in the 15th century demonstrate the reception of Latin authors in Renaissance Italy. Two leaves at the end of the manuscript are palimpsests: a letter from Ovid's Heroides (from Sappho to Phaon) and an extract from the Epigrams of Martial have been were written over the text of the biblical book of Tobit.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Persius, Saturae (f. 2) Found in: Standard description
- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Saturae (f. 194-203) Found in: Standard description
- Allen, Henry Ellis (Former possessor) | Aurispa, Giovanni (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Ennius, Quintus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Germanicus, Julius Caesar (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lucretius Carus, Titus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Statius, Publius Papinius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description

This manuscript contains the Satires by the Roman poet Persius – Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62). Except for the prologue, the satires are written in hexameter; there are a modest number of verses (about 650). The satires were very popular in the Middle Ages and beyond, as even Jean-Jacques Rousseau borrowed some words from them - intus et in cute (Satire III, v. 30 - fol. 5v) - to place at the beginning of his Confessions. The addition of a paragraph in French from the Gospel of Luke on the last page of the manuscript suggests that this copy of the Satires, which goes back to the 12th century, might have been copied in France.
Online Since: 06/14/2018
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- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Saturae (f. 1-12) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Seller) | Robinson, William H. Ltd. (London) (Seller) Found in: Standard description

This manuscript, written in 1499 under the schoolmaster Cunradus Reuschman of Lindau (note on p. 488), contains predominantly works by ancient writers, as well as several works by 15th century Italian authors. All texts have commentaries, and the more important works are generally preceded by an argumentum. Often there are several pages left blank between the texts. In the margins, there are several simple pen sketches (pp. 498–501, 504, 511, 513; on p. 706 and 712 sketches of maps of the world). P. 3 contains a full-page pen sketch of the city of Troy. The individual texts are: Publius Baebius Italicus, Ilias latina (pp. 5–51); Virgil, Georgica (pp. 57–146); Horace, Epistolae (pp. 148–230); Horace, Carmen saeculare (pp. 231–234); Lactantius, De ave Phoenice (pp. 234–241); Persius, Satires (pp. 245–282); Margarita passionis, inc. Cum prope pasca foret (pp. 283–288); Seneca, De providentia (pp. 289–298); Augustinus Datus, Elegantiolae (pp. 323–361); Carmen de dolo et astutia cuiusdam mulieris, inc. Summe procus caveat ducatur ne mala coniunx (pp. 362–365); hymns (pp. 366–388); Parvulus philosophiae moralis (pp. 395–417); Dominicus Mancinus, De quattuor virtutibus (pp. 419–488); Hieronimus de Vallibus, Jesuida (pp. 491–514); Matthaeus Bossus, Oratio in beata coena domini (pp. 515–524); Ps.-Leonardo Bruni Aretino, Comoedia Poliscena (pp. 539–549); Terence, Andria (pp. 563–621); Virgil, Bucolica (pp. 629–660); Horace, Ars poetica (pp. 661–678); Horace, Epodes (pp. 679–692); Ps.-Virgil, Moretum (pp. 692–694); Ps.-Ovid, Remedia amoris, inc. Qui fuerit cupiens ab amica solvere colla (pp. 694–695); Ps.-Ovid, De arte amandi, inc. Si quem forte iuvat subdi sapienter amori (pp. 695–698); a treatise on punctuation, De kanone punctorum (pp. 699); Virgil, Aeneis, lib. 1 and 3 (pp. 701–726 and 741–760); Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (pp. 765–802); Sallust, De bello Iugurthino, incomplete (pp. 803–804); Seneca, Epistolae morales (pp. 812–853).
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Satirae, cum brevi vita et glossis. Vita Persii (pp. 245-282)
Incipit: Persius poeta satiricus corrupturus scelera a se ipso atque aliis sue condictionis incipit
Explicit: poeta prodicitur (p. 245).
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- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Satyrae. Found in: Additional description
- Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Dati (Author) | Baebius, Italicus (Author) | Bosso, Matteo (Author) | Bruni, Leonardo (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Mancinus, Dominicus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Pindarus (Author) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) | Trutfetter, Jodocus (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Additional description

An anonymous commentary, written in tiny script (up to 110 lines on pages only 14.5 cm in height) on the odes, epodes, Ars poetica, letters, and sermons of Horace. It is preceded by lives of Horace by Pseudo-Acro and Suetonius as well as, on the very first pages, documents (including one from 1252). The pages at the end contain a commentary on the Satires of Persius, of which the first part is in poor condition.
Online Since: 06/22/2010
- Acro, Helenius (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Acro, Helenius (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Acro, Helenius (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Satiren (p. 194-201) Found in: Additional description
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