P: Stemma in Florence Plutei

Notes

Italy, Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, plut. 20.54, folios 38-45v.

Online: Digitized.

In sixteen pages; Italian minuscule, roundels drawn by compass; entirely in black and red ink, with decorated arches and on the last page shields and a knot, but no figurative illumination; parchment 36.0 x 22.6 cm (Martìn), 35.5 x 22.5 <29.0 x 16.5> (Gorman).

The graphic also contains the following Legend of Alexander text, which does not have any evident link to the Great Stemma: Gog et Magog, Canuc, Ageth, Acenazel, Defarfoti, Repi, Libusei, Pharisei, Declimei, Garmathei, Armatiani, Caconei, Zamartei, Agrimarcli, Anophargi, Cinecefali, Tasbei, Alanei, Priorsolonici, Armei, Saltarei;
iste autem generationes de genere Cham aiunt exortas fuisse, qui propter omnes abhominationes suas, quas egerunt, quia nullam legem habuerunt, ab Alexandro Magno Macedonum regem in partibus aquilonis inclusi sunt; qui ante consummationem seculi egrediuntur quattuor angulos terre et circuibunt universa castra sanctorum et civitatem magnam Romam circumdabunt
quorum non est numerus, sicut arena quae est in littore maris; cui nulla gens regnum resista
secundum [?] quod ipse per prophetam dicunt: venite omnes bestie agri et volatalia celi venite et congregiamini ad sacrificium magni dei ut commedatis carnes fortium et bibatis sanguinem regum super montem Israhel
a quorum intertiu omnis mundus letabunt et invicem sibi munera mittent.

Given siglum P by Piggin.

The codex

45 folios; text written in two columns of 48 lines

Made in Italy, 11th century (Bischoff/Gorman) at Badia San Salvatore, Monte Amiata, Tuscany (Gorman).

Its original contents were formerly identical to those of Florence, Conventi soppressi 364 (olim Santa Maria Novella 623) and Cesena, D.XXIV.1. The present folios were formerly numbered 143-187 and thus would have been bound after Isidore's Etymologiae (Gorman).

The codex was in the ownership of Collucio Salutati (Ullman) before its acquisition for the Laurentian Library in Florence.

The rest of the codex as it survives contains:

Junilius Africanus	Instituta regularia divinae legis… de addiscendis Sacris Litteris in forma dialogi, iussu Primasii episcopi Aticensis, vel Adrumentini, exce[r]pta ab ore Paulli Persae et in duos libros divisa. [Cum] Epistola noncupatoria [ad Primasium; (CPL 872)	1ra – 8rb
Bede	glose per totum alphabetum	8rb – 15rb
	divisiones temporum XIII sunt...	15rb – 21ra
Isidori Hispalensis	Etymologies (Lindsay)	21ra – 22va
	traité grammatical	22va – 24ra
Anon	Liber Genealogus (CPL 2254) (Mommsen MGH chron. min I)	24ra – 30ra
Isidori Hispalensis	Chronographia, cum prologo; Isidorus iunior [Pacensis]; (Martin)	30ra – 34ra
	Catalogus regum Langobardorum et Italicorum Lombardus (Waitz, MGH scr. rer. Lang.) ends with last Italian kings Lothair II and Berengar II and the crowning in 961 of Otto II as overlord of Italy. MGH Digital	36va – 37ra
Anon	Great Stemma (editio princeps Piggin)	38r – 45r
Pseudo-Julianus	Ordo annorum mundi (editio princeps 2014, Martín)	45r

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Piggin, Jean-Baptiste. New-Found Manuscript. Blog post. 2012-05-19

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