Lindsay, Wallace Martin [Hrsg.]: Palaeographia Latina (Band 3) (London [u.a.], 1924)

Collectanea varia

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COLLECTANEA VARIA

( Continued)
BY W. M LINDSAY

IV. — Scribes and their Ways.

(Continued from Part II, p. 30).

I. A Satire on a Scribe.

Since (as I learn through Prof. Strecker's kindness), the
satirical poem in Vat. Pal. lat. 153 has been, by some mis-
fortune, overlooked in the collection of material for Mon. Germ.
Hist-, I print it here. The MS. (of " saec. ix ant. ") contains
Ioannes Constantinopolitanus in Epistolam ad Hebreos and
is written by many scribes (of whom the first is the best) in
the Tours type of minuscule. The whole MS. has been ca-
refully corrected.

The poem stands on the fly-leaf (fol. 2r), and has been
altered here and there by the (chief) corrector of the MS

Hoc correxit opus d(om)ni

— Iusserat hoc scribi sumptibus ille suis — ; (corr. ipse
Codicibus multis coram residente magistro (corr. censente

Rettulit ad priscam multa legendo fidem;
5 Quod nisi fecisset, mendosum spernere librum
Quilibet insignis vellet ab arte cito;
Nam scriptor quidam — nomen ne quaere sodalis —

Et quae vera capit mox ea falsa facit:
Permemor ille sui nimium morisque vetusti (corr. Hie memor

10 Pro quovis vitio sparserat usque decern.

Quid faceret ? corruptus erat per singula codex

— Is doctis manibus saepe tenendus item — ;
Plurima raduntur, partem ne trunca manerent,

Plurima nec fuerant, plurima rursus erant.
15 Consilio potuit non uno occurrere cunctis :

Hie trivisse nimis tempora longa vides.
Ardua praetereo; refugit iactare laborem

Rite verecundus, maxima quaeque gerit.
Non retices ilium, bis bine quaternio, quanquam