A Munich Fragment of the Ilias Latina (clm 14843)

Abstract

This paper presents a hitherto unknown bifolium containing verses 416-496 of the Ilias Latina, now preserved as the last protective leaf of Munich, BSB, Clm 14843 ; it was the inner bifolium of a quire, possibly of a quaternion, belonging to a manuscript tentatively dated to the second half of the eleventh century. Even though some of its characteristics could suggest a connection with Regensburg, Bischöf. ZentralB., Frag. I. 1.6, it actually constituted a stemmatic twin of Erfurt, BU, CA. 12 º 20 ; the textual evidence is supported by the fact that both witnesses, as well as their close relative Leiden, BU, Voss. Lat. O. 89, are the only known codices in Marco Scaffai’s stemma to have 20 lines per page ; this feature is likely the result of reproducing the mise en page of the model(s), a well-known practice in the medieval transcription process.