Manuscripta

This article presents new research findings for four Italian medieval manuscripts in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, in particular concernining the identification of their texts and provenances. The discussion focuses on: 1) Boethius, De institutione musica (MS RARESF 091 B63); 2) Ptolemy, Almagest (MS RARESF 091 P95A); 3) Glossed Epistles of Paul (MS RARESF 096 B47E); and 4) An Album of Cuttings (MS RARESF 096 IL1). Twenty-four of the cuttings include text fragments that are here identified as coming from one or more manuscripts containing Justinian’s Institutiones and Codex.

This article, part eight of the “Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America,” analyzes and describes the Greek manuscripts held in the Library Company of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This paper provides a thorough description of the medieval Italian manu scripts of medicine from the former Preussische Staatsbibliothek kept in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow. Codicological and philological details determine their origin and dating. Most of the texts in the manuscripts have been identified for the first time. The question of vernacularization is examined through an analysis of the authors’, copyists,’ and compilers’ stated intentions. The theory of vertical stratification of languages for special purposes is introduced as a valid theoretical framework for explaining the coexistence of medical texts in Latin and in vernacular languages in the Middle Ages.