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Royal MS 15 B. xix
British Library
London
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United Kingdom
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98r
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NE: MS is originally three different MSS: ff. 1-36 (s. X (2/2)); ff. 37-199 (s. IX (4/4)); ff. 200-250 (s. XI); while f. 98r attributes this poem to Cato, it is not the distichs
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Lines 1 and 7 of a poem on the activities appropriate to rustication
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Latin (extracts)
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Incipit:
'Cato poeta', also attributed to Martial and printed as ll. 1, 7 of a poem in nine lines Bährens, iv, p. 116, cf. art. 37, below) (per Catalogue (British Museum) Old Royal and King's)
Explicit:
Rure morans quid agam respondi pauca rogatus (per Catalogue (British Museum) Old Royal and King's)
History
Cato poeta (per Catalogue (British Museum) Old Royal and King's)
CAT Date:
IX (4/4)
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876-900
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Additional Information
France (Reims)
Digital reproductions:
"Part 2: The abbey of St Remi at Reims [...]. The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): [...] included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, (f. 20) [part 2] and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, nos. 8517, 8613 and 8643). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library." (per CIM)
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Bibliography:
SOCAM (http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001614761) | CIM (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7499&CollID=16&NStart=150219) | Catalogue (British Museum) Old Royal and King's, vol. 2, pp. 159-63
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N/A
NE: MS is originally three different MSS: ff. 1-36 (s. X (2/2)); ff. 37-199 (s. IX (4/4)); ff. 200-250 (s. XI); while f. 98r attributes this poem to Cato, it is not the distichs