The History of a Historia Manuscript transmission of the Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita by Epiphanius-Cassiodorus MA Thesis by Désirée Scholten Utrecht University, July 2010 Table of Contents Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Chapter 1: Methods and assumptions .................................................................................................... 6 Written Society .................................................................................................................................... 6 Social Writings ..................................................................................................................................... 7 An explanation of why the Historia is so important for methods ....................................................... 9 An example: St Gallen cod. 561 ....................................................................................................... 9 Manuscripts which contain selections of the Historia .................................................................. 11 Chapter 2: Cassiodorus and the Historia Tripartita ............................................................................... 12 Cassiodorus ....................................................................................................................................... 12 The language of the Historia Tripartita ............................................................................................. 14 Vivarium ............................................................................................................................................ 14 The Historia Tripartita ....................................................................................................................... 15 Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 15 Three chapters- controversy ......................................................................................................... 16 Ch 3 Chronological treatment of material ............................................................................................ 20 3.1 Existing manuscripts .................................................................................................................... 20 3.2 Medieval catalogues .................................................................................................................... 23 9th and 10th century ....................................................................................................................... 23 11th century ................................................................................................................................... 24 12th century ................................................................................................................................... 26 15th century ................................................................................................................................... 26 3.3 Stemma ....................................................................................................................................... 28 1a ................................................................................................................................................... 28 1b ................................................................................................................................................... 34 1c ................................................................................................................................................... 34 1d ................................................................................................................................................... 34 1e ................................................................................................................................................... 35 1f .................................................................................................................................................... 35 Group 2 .......................................................................................................................................... 36 3a ................................................................................................................................................... 37 3b and c ......................................................................................................................................... 37 Page | 1 3d, e and f ...................................................................................................................................... 39 4a ................................................................................................................................................... 40 4b ................................................................................................................................................... 41 4c ................................................................................................................................................... 41 4d and e ......................................................................................................................................... 41 4f, mss 126, and 23 ........................................................................................................................ 42 5a ................................................................................................................................................... 43 5b ................................................................................................................................................... 43 5c ................................................................................................................................................... 43 5d ................................................................................................................................................... 44 6a ................................................................................................................................................... 45 6b ................................................................................................................................................... 45 6c and d ......................................................................................................................................... 46 6e ................................................................................................................................................... 47 6 f and g ......................................................................................................................................... 47 3.4 manuscripts not mentioned in Jacob .......................................................................................... 48 14: Freiburg im Breisgau 6 ............................................................................................................. 48 29: Sotheby`s: lot 2 from sale L00507 ........................................................................................... 48 30: Winchester Cathedral Library XXV .......................................................................................... 48 71: Metz, Bibliothèque Municipale 1212 ...................................................................................... 48 72: Cambridge, St John`s College 5 ............................................................................................... 49 82: Sotheby`s: lot 80 from sale L03240 ......................................................................................... 49 83: Sotheby`s: lot 72, 1995 ............................................................................................................ 49 107: London, British Library, Royal 11 B. III ................................................................................... 49 108: London, British Library add. 69999 ....................................................................................... 50 135: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 3175 ................................................................ 50 136: Arezzo, Bibliotheca dello Città di Arezzo 442 ........................................................................ 50 140: London, British Library, add. 44055 ...................................................................................... 50 150: Valenciennes, Bibliothèque Municipale 145 ......................................................................... 50 3.5 References to Manuscripts and Fragmentary use of the Historia .............................................. 52 History ........................................................................................................................................... 52 Dogmatic issues ............................................................................................................................. 52 Exempla, sermons, vitae ................................................................................................................ 54 Other mentions ............................................................................................................................