MS. Auct. T. 2. 26
Summary Catalogue no.: 20632
Physical Description
Layout
30 lines.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
In southern (?) France by the fifteenth century when part 1 was added.
Jean de Tillet (d. 1570), bishop of Meaux: borrowed from him by Arnaud de Pontac (Pontacus) for his edition (published 1604).
Paris, Jesuit college of Clermont: no. 638 in the sale catalogue of 1764.
Bought by Gerard Meerman (1722–1771).
His son, Jan Meerman (1753–1815).
His sale, 1824, lot. 54, purchased by the Bodleian.
MS. Auct. T. 2. 26 – Part 1 (fols. 1–32)
Contents
Die Chronik des Hieronymus / Hieronymi Chronicon, ed. R. Heim, Eusebius Werke, 7, 2nd. ed. (Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der Ersten Jahrhunderte 47) (1956, repr. 1984) (siglum 0); Eusebii Pamphili Chronici canones latine vertit, adauxit, ad sua tempora produxit S. Eusebius Hieronymus, ed. J. K. Fotheringham (1923) (siglum O).
Physical Description
Layout
Preface (fols. 1r-5r) in 2 columns, otherwise in 1 column
Decoration
Supplement to the 5th-century core. (Pächt and Alexander i. 684)
Good border.
Good initials.
History
MS. Auct. T. 2. 26 – Part 2 (fols. 33–145)
Contents
For editions, see above.
Final leaf (after fol. 144) missing, text ends 'per auaritiam Maximi'. Fol. 145 is a supplement, 'A Troiae excidium...apud Durostorum', partly pr. Chronica minora II, ed. T. Mommsen, MGH Auct. Antiq. XI (1894), p. 49, referring to events of 435 C.E.; descendants of the MS. indicate that text on the lost leaf referred to events of 444.
Physical Description
Layout
1 column
Hand(s)
Uncial. One hand, in three sizes dictated by the requirements of the text. Marginalia and fol. 145 in a sloping uncial by the same scribe.
Decoration
Rubrics (some in minium), year numbers in red.
History
MS. Auct. T. 2. 26 – Part 3 (fols. 146–178)
Contents
Ed. Chronica minora II, ed. T. Mommsen, MGH Auct. Antiq. XI (1894), pp. 37–108; the present MS. = siglum T, described pp. 48–50.
Physical Description
Layout
1 column
Decoration
Rubrics (some in minium), year numbers in red.
History
Additional Information
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Digital Images
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.