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MS. Rawl. G. 134

Summary Catalogue no.: 14859

Claudian

'Claudianus maior'

(fol. 3)

The Invectives Against Rufinus

(fol. 16)

Fescennina

(fol. 17v)

Epithalamium Honorii et Mariae

(fol. 23)

De bello Gildonico

With a prologue which begins 'Pandite deffensum'

(fol. 30v)

The Invectives Against Eutropius

After 'orba tuis' (line 58 of the preface to the second book), instead of the rest of the preface, comes in (fol. 38v) the whole of the 'Elogium Stilichonis', after which the second book of the 'Invectives' is resumed (fol. 55v)

(fol. 64)

De sexto Consulato Honorii

(fol. 73)

De tertio Consulato Honorii

(fol. 76v)

De quarto Consulato Honorii

(fol. 85v)

De Consulato Malli Theodori

(fol. 90v)

De bello Getico

Carmina minora

(fols 99, 106, 113v)

Epigrammata, Epistolae et Idyllia (in Weber's Corpus Poett. Lat. Epigr. 30, 4, 31, 23, 32,14, Hystrix, 24, 34, de Piis fratribus, 1, 2, 25; Epist. 1, Epigr. 19, 28, Aponus, Phoenix, Nilus, Magnes, Epist. 2; Epigrr. 6-12; Epist. 3, 4; Epigrr. 3, 20, 21, 5, 17, 18, 15, Torpedo, 22, 13; also one not there, beginning 'Christe, potens rerum', 21 lines)

(fol. 103v)

Epithalamium Palladii et Celerinae (Carm. min. XXV Platnauer, XXX-XXXI Birt)

(fol. 110)

De laudibus Serenae (Carm. min. XXX Platnauer, XXIX Birt)

(fol. 117v)

Gigantomachia (Carm. min. LIII Platnauer, XXXVII Birt)

With no titles

Final rubric: Expliciunt libri Claudiani et epigramata

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 140 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 10.25 × 6.375 in.

Decoration

Written and illuminated by Nicholaus Germine de Crispis: 'Germine de Crispis Nicolaus nomine dictus | A curlis scripsit pinxit opus et miniauit | Mantua quem genuit sub Christi sanguine leta' (fol. 119), born in Mantua. Pächt and Alexander ii. 379, Pl. XXXVII

Fine borders, e.g. fol. 3r

Fine historiated initials

Fine other initials

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; Italy, Mantua

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol. 3 is a coat of arms, sable a cross or, surmounted by an eagle displayed sable crowned or as a crest. Perhaps Sansimone of Mantua (cf. Leipzig, Stadtbibl. Mscr. Nr. LXX, Livy) surmounted by Curlo of Genoa

On fol. 1v notes by an owner that the dean of Olom' (Olomouc?) and Magister Sanderus had borrowed books: 'Item dominus decanus ecclesie Olom [?] habet librum Seruii quem concessi'; 'Item magister Sanderus habet Pucaricium [?] quem concessi' (15th century)

Fol. 2, ‘iiii Flor' Rhen', saec. XV. 'Liber collegii Bus(lidiani)', Louvain, saec. XVI, fol. 2

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 366

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 367