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The Toledo Ms. of Plutarch's Moralia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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It seems worth while giving some account of this MS., because in recent years it has been said to contain certain pieces of the Moralia which it does not, and not to contain others which it does.
At the foot of the first page of the text the MS. carries the pontifical shield with the arms of the Medici, and from this it is reasonable to suppose that there was a time when it belonged either to Leo X., who was Pope from 1513 to 1521, or to Clement VII., who was Pope from 1523 to 1534. This being so, 1534 is established as the terminus ante quem of its writing. Towards the end of this century, about 1598, it was acquired by the Spanish Cardinal Saverio de Zelada. In 1801 the Cardinal Archbishop Antonio de Lorenzana bought in Rome a certain number of Greek and Oriental manuscripts which had formerly been in the collection of Cardinal Saverio de Zelada, and placed them in the Chapter Library at Toledo. Included with these was this MS. of the Moralia, which remains there to this day.
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page 166 note 1 I take this opportunity of thanking Canon Eduardo Estella, the Archivist of the Chapter Library of the Cathedral, for such help as he gave me when I was at Toledo. I am also very grateful to Dr. E. H, Minns for much kind assistance.
page 166 note 2 The most recent reference to the coming to Toledo of these MSS. gives the date as ‘towards the end of the eighteenth century.’ But there is evidence for the precise date given above.
page 166 note 3 Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum, qui in Bibliothecis Galliae, Heluetiae, Belgii, Britanniae M., Hispaniae, Lusitaniae asseruantur, nunc primum editi a D. Gustavo Haenel, Lipsiae, , 1830, col. 993Google Scholar.
page 166 note 4 Rapports sur une Mission littéraire et philologique en Espagne, par , M. Ch. Ruelle, Émile, in Archives des Missions scientifiques et littéraires. Série, Troisièeme, Tome II., Deuxième Livraison. Paris, 1875Google Scholar.
page 166 note 5 Op. dt., p. 586 and pp. 590–592.
page 168 note 1 The important point is that the number in Parisinus 1672 is 78 by our reckoning.
page 168 note 2 Bernadakis made no use of it. It still remains to be seen whether the new Teubner editors will do so, because the MS. happened not to contain any of the pieces included in their first volume published in 1925.
page 168 note 3 In Archives des Missions scientifiques et littéraires. Série, Troisième, Tome V., Première Livraison, Paris, 1878, pp. 111–136Google Scholar.
page 168 note 4 Notices sommaires des Manuscrits grecs d'Espagne et de Portugal par Graux, Charles, mises en ordre et complétées par Albert Martin, Paris, 1892, pp. 264–266Google Scholar.
page 168 note 5 Op. cit., pp. 43–128. The divergence of my numbers of the page-references to Hahn's work from those given by some other writers is explained by their depending on whether they are taken from the work as a separate piece, or as bound in one volume with other works published during the same year under the same auspices at Cracow, having its pages numbered accordingly.
page 168 note 6 Op. cit., p. 71.
page 169 note 1 M. Ruelle adds to the title of each treatise its number in the ‘ordre de Lamprias’ and its number in the ‘ordre de l'édit. Didot.’
page 169 note 2 It looks very much as if this is true, because in Hahn's list there occurs a piece in two divisions; its number is given as 36, which is περɩ̀ σαρκοϕαϒίας in the order of E, and this piece is actually one of those included in the Toledo MS. But the argument is not decisive. For there is one other piece of the Moralia in two divisions—57, περὶ τη̑ς Ἀλεξάνδρου τύχης ἢ άρετη̑ς However, argument is hardly needed when there is no reason whatever for supposing that Hahn's numbers are not meant to refer to the order of E.
page 169 note 3 It may be said that of the numbers given by Hahn twenty are correct, eleven are wrong. He has only thirty-one numbers, because, as stated, he gives one number twice.
page 169 note 4 Op. cit., p. 51.
page 169 note 5 Op. cit., p. 71.
page 169 note 6 Op. cit., p. 48.
page 169 note 7 Op. cit., pp. 91–2.
page 169 note 8 To save confusion it should perhaps be pointed out that in the following paragraph on p. 92 ‘Toledensi’ appears to be an error for ‘Escorialensi.’
page 169 note 9 Titchener, J. B., The Manuscript Tradition of Plutarch's Aetia Graeca and Aetia Romana in University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. IX., No. 2. University of Illinois Press, 05, 1924Google Scholar.
page 169 note 10 See op. cit., pp. 25–7, and the stemma on p. 64.
page 170 note 1 Lowe, C. G., The Manuscript Tradition of Pseudo-Plutarch's Vitae Decem Oratorum in University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. IX., No. 4. University of Illinois Press, 11, 1924Google Scholar.
page 170 note 2 Op. cit., p. 25.
page 170 note 3 op. Cit., p. 33.
page 170 note 4 Op. cit., p. 15.
page 170 note 5 Op. tit., p. 67.
page 170 note 6 I have to thank Mr. F. H. Sandbach for very kindly reading this article when still in manuscript. He finds that T is in 66 derived from Vaticanus 139, and that any intermediaries there may have been do not include any of the other MSS. known by him to be descended from that MS. This agrees with the results of Dr. j, B. Titchener and Dr. C. G. Lowe, and the three results together, combined with the Planudean order, make it as near certain as it is possible to be that T is descended from Vaticanus 139 throughout.