Script: copied by various hands writing a small late Carolingian script. Folios 24v-25r have been erased, ruled again in lead and rewritten by a 13th century hand using Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; the top 10 lines of f. 41r appear to be rewritten over erasure by one of the main hands. Headings, explicits and incipits in display script heightened with red. Red heightening of the opening majuscules of the verses and of the paragraph marks.

Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia). The text is incomplete due to the loss of two quires in the middle and two leaves at the end. Marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections date from the 12th-15th centuries. There are running headlines “I”, “II”, “III” etc. on the recto pages up to f. 56. The manuscript also contains a fictitious epitaph of Lucan.

The manuscript contains two maps: (1) in the outer margin of f. 21v: schematic drawing coloured in red and yellow illustrating the fauces, lingua and cornua of the harbour of Brundisium; (2) in the outer margin of f. 87v: erased T-O map with the winds, uncoloured, illustrating the description of the world beginning.

Binding: English 19th century binding: brown leather over cardboard; on the spine the gold-tooled title “LUCANI / PHAR./ SALIA”. Marbled endleaves.

In Latin.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.

Shirley Jane Werner, The Transmission and Scholia to Lucan's Bellum Civile (Yale University Dissertation, 1992).

Werner, Shirley. "The text of Beinecke MS 673, an eleventh-century manuscript to Lucan." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 140, no. 3/4 (1997): 299-308.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.