LDLT_Witness.xml

<witness xml:id="G"><abbr type="siglum">G</abbr> = <title>Codex Gaddianus
  pl. 90, 12 inf.</title>
  <msDesc>
    <msIdentifier>
      <settlement>Florence</settlement>
      <repository>Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana</repository>
      <idno>plut. 90, 12 inf.</idno>
    </msIdentifier>
    <msContents>
      <p>Contains the twelve eclogues of Francesco Petrarch (ff.
        1–44), the <bibl><title>Culex</title></bibl> of Vergilius
        Maro, the <bibl><title>Dirae</title></bibl> of Vergilius
        Maro (ff. 52–55), and Calpurnius and Nemesianus (ff. 55–74).
        A very brief, unattributed eclogue follows with the
        interlocutors Daphnis, Tityrus, Mopsus, and Meliboeus.</p>
      <p>The following inscription has been added to the eclogues of
        Calpurnius: <quote xml:lang="la">Egloge Calfurnii ad
          nemesianum cartaginiensem.</quote> (<quote>The Eclogues
            of Calfurnius to Nemesianus of Carthage</quote>).
        Nemesianus follows Calpurnius with the following title
        prefixed: <quote xml:lang="la">Aureliani nemesiani
          cartaginiensis egloghe incipiunt</quote> (<quote>Here
            begin the eclogues of Aurelianus Nemesianus of
            Carthage</quote>). At the end of each eclogue there
        appears an <hi rend="italic">explicit</hi> with the number
        of each eclogue, but Calpurnius’ sixth eclogue lacks a
        subscription, and the following is written at the end of the
        seventh: <quote xml:lang="la">explicit sexta egloga
          Calphurnii</quote> (<quote>Here ends the sixth eclogue
            of Calphurnius</quote>). This is explained by the fact
        that the seventh eclogue follows the sixth without any
        break, with the result that only six eclogues are attributed
        to Calpurnius in this manuscript. But in the margin, where
        the sixth eclogue ought to end, the copyist has added the
        following: <quote xml:lang="la">aliqui volunt dicere quod
          ista sit alia et diversa egloga ubi incipit “lentus,"
          aliqui dicunt quod est una etc.</quote> (<quote>Some
            wish to say that the eclogue that begins <hi
              rend="italic">lentus</hi> is a completely different
            eclogue; others say that it is the same,
            etc.</quote>).</p>
    </msContents>
    <physDesc>
      <objectDesc>
        <p>Paper: 294 × 225 mm.: 74 leaves. Individual pages
          generally have 29 verses, but some vary, with the
          shorter ones having 26 and the longer ones haveing 32
          verses.</p>
      </objectDesc>
      <handDesc hands="2">
        <handNote xml:id="G1"><abbr type="siglum">G<hi rend="super"
          >1</hi></abbr>: The copyist himself added almost
          all of the corrections either by removing scribal errors
          in the verses or adding variant readings to the margin.
          See <ref target="Gdesc-hand">above</ref> for a more
          detailed description of this hand’s activity.</handNote>
        <handNote xml:id="G2"><abbr type="siglum">G<hi rend="super"
          >2</hi></abbr>: Some corrections seem to have been
          made by another hand.</handNote>
      </handDesc>
    </physDesc>
    <history>
      <origin>
        <p>Written at the <origDate notAfter="1500" notBefore="1400"
          >beginning of the fifteenth century</origDate>.</p>
      </origin>
    </history>
  </msDesc>
</witness>