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P Milan, Ambrosian Library Bibl. Ambros. D 35 sup. / R 7883. Written on parchment. Three initial leaves; 126 folios of 223 x 148 mm. Folios 86-93 are blank. Written in long lines, 34 lines per page. Gold illuminated initials on ff. 2r and 96v. A very recent hand has written the contents of the codex on the folio before the text: B. Saluiani|De uero iuditio et prudentia (sic) Dei | ex ipsius gubernatione Libri octo | Item | Cassiodorus quo ordine diuini libri | in sectionibus adhibendi sint libri duo . Folio 1 contains the notice of Gennadius on Salvian, with the orthography Saluanus . The text commences on the verso . Salvian is on ff.1v-85v; 93v-126 contain Cassiodorus, Institutiones, liber I : diuinarum litterarum (PL 70, col. 1105-1150).
It belonged to Francesco Pizolpasso, Archbishop of Milan, who had met Cusanus at the Council of Basle in May 1432, and copied it from B. He bequeathed it to the library of the Cathedral chapter. In 1605 it was acquired by Cardinal Frederick Borromeo for the Ambrosian library. 15
a Milan, Ambrosian Library Bibl. Ambr. P 18 sup. / R 7883. Written on paper. It contains on ff.41r-58v a portion of De gubernatione (preface, books 1-2, start of book 3). It is a very faulty copy of P, with the orthography Saluanus in the incipit. It was unfinished, as time was not taken to copy the rubrics. 15
M Venice, Biblioteca Marciana Bibl. Marc. Mss. Latini Cl. 2 N 76 (provenienza: Zeno Apostolo 211 ; collocazione 2080 ); now Lat. II, 76 . Written on paper, on 156 folios. Only contains our text. 15
K Ferrara, Bibl. communale Ariostea Bibl. Com. Ariost. II 137. 334 folios, with De gubernatione on ff.211-290. 260 x 185 mm. 14-15. Must be later than 1430.
F Florence, Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurenziana Bibl. Laur. pluteus XXV, codex VII (Ms. L in Pauly's edition). Parchment. Quarto. 78 folios contain our text. 15th
W Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek O.N. 826 Univ. 102. Parchment. 130 folios, quarto size. At the foot of fol. 1 are the arms of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary. Many annotations and corrections in the hand of the first editor of a printed text, J. Brassicanus, who clearly borrowed it to use for his edition. 15th
U Rome, Vatican, Bibliotheca apostolica Vaticana. Vaticanus Urbin. latinus 524. Older shelfmarks 132 and (at Urbino) 94. Parchment, very attractive copy. Written at Florence, judging by the illuminations, which are like those in W. It comprises 146 folios, 217 x 140 mm. 15th
V Rome, Vatican, Bibliotheca apostolica Vaticana. Vaticanus latinus 554. Another art manuscriptm on parchment, one initial leaf, then 110 folios, 242 x 166 mm. Lots of decoration. On fol. 1 the arms of Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville (1439-1483). 15th
V' Rome, Vatican, Bibliotheca apostolica Vaticana. Vaticanus latinus 5034. Parchment. 243 folios. De gubernatione on ff. 1-103. Followed by the sermons of Ephrem Syrus. 15th
T Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Français Bibl. Nat. lat. 2174. Older shelfmarks: Colbert 3791; Reg. 4171. The first part of the codex (ff.1-112, 253 x 178 mm) contains our text, with 24 lines to the page. The bottom of f.109v and the remainder to 112v are blank. The manuscript comes from the abbey of Santa Maria Bianca de Casoreto or Caserto, near Milan, according to an ex libris at the foot of fol. 1. It belonged successively to A. de Thou, N. Colbert, and finally the royal library. There follow some folios (113-115) containing the first fragment of Ms. C of the letters of Salvian, and finally a leaf containing a paper note by the editor, G. Halm. 15th
T' Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Français Bibl. Nat. lat. 2786. Older shelfmarks: Colbert 5495; Regius 4333. Siglum t in Pauly's edition. Parchment. 95 folios. 210 x 150 mm. The first two leaves contain bibliographical notes about Salvian, written in the 17th century. Ff.3-95 contain De gubernatione . Pauly considered that the decoration etc may indicate a connection with Matthias Corvinus. Second half of the 15th century.
Lost - was Turin, Biblioteca royale Bib. roy. Athenaei 678 (d. I. 48). Now lost. Listed in Pasini's catalogue of 1749. Humanist correspondence of the 15th century cites the incipits, which permits us to consider it a child of B. 15th
Lost - was Murano, Bibl. S. Michel. Bib. S. Michel 807 (m). Now lost. Listed in Mittarelli's catalogue of 1779. Likewise a child of B, judging from humanist references. 15th
Berne, Bibl. mun. Bibl. mun. 109. On fol. 136r are two short quotations from De gubernatione . The manuscript starts with Priscian, Ars Grammatica ; then there are pages full of quotations. The quotes are not useful for the history of the text, being too short. 10th
All the recentiores are descended from P, itself copied from B. M, K, F and V and a are direct copies of P; U and W are copied from F (the Florence group); V' is copied from V, T from V', T' from T.
The first printed edition appeared at Basle from Froben in 1530, edited by J. A. Brassicanus, using W as his source. Unfortunately some of the pasges in books VII and VIII were in a strange order. This was fixed in the 1564 edition by P. Galesini, who otherwise copied Brassicanus. The first edition of all the works of Salvian appeared in Paris in 1580, edited by Pierre Pithou, who used T and T' to correct the text of Brassicanus. Many reprints then occurred, among them that of Conrad Rittershausen (Altdorf, 1611), with an abundant commentary. Etienne Baluze did an edition in Paris in 1663, in which he made use of A, and based his edition on it, comparing it against the text of Pithou. A second edition with further notes appeared in 1669; a definitive third edition, often reprinted, in 1684. The Patrologia Latina text (Migne, t. 53, col. 26-158, Paris, 1865) is a reprint of Baluze's 3rd edition. G. Halm for the MGH (Berlin 1877) collated A and T, with a collation of B; F. Pauly, in the CSEL 8 edition (Vienna, 1883) recollated A, T, T', W, and made some use of B.
Bibliography
Georges L AGARRIGUE , Salvien de Marseille: Oeuvres. t. 2. Du gouvernement de Dieu. Sources Chrétiennes 220. Paris (1975). t.1 of Salvian is SC 176. This is the source for the manuscript information above.
Roger Pearse
8th August, 2005