In a Cambridge manuscript (Corpus Christi 217) and a Paris Manuscript, BN
lat 14,803, I also found marginal notes starting with "Nota de ...".
The texts were short allegorical *distinctiones*, probably used for sermons.
The only literature I cound find on this type of literature was: J.B.
Schneyer, Ergaenzungen der Sermones und Miscellanea des Hugo von Sankt Viktor,
in: RTAM 31 (1964), 261.
Frans van Liere
College of Charleston
On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Juris G. Lidaka wrote:
> A while back, I was looking at Troyes Bibl. mun. MS 470, and my eye
> was attracted by the marginal comments at the text, as given below.
>
> The text, Bartholomaeus Anglicus' _De proprietatibus rerum_,
> was finished perhaps c. 1235 in Magdeburg, Germany. This portion
> comes from Book 6 Ch. 21, "De potu," and is on f. 56v in the
> Troyes MS, substantially the same on f. 64v in Clermont-Ferrand
> Bibl. mun. MS 172.
>
> The 1601 printed text has no marginalia, but if you'd like to see the
> context you may look on p. 264 (as in the 1964 reprint by Frankfurt's
> Minerva). This is on wines of different color, here, and the _notae_ are
> about where both MSS have them:
>
> In colore insuper variantur. Nam Nota de albis
> quoddam est album minus calidum, monachis et
> quoddam citrinum magis calidum, nigris
> quia, tu dicit Constantinus,
> omnium membrorum est penetrativum,
> sanguinis colerici generativum et
> doloris capitis conmotivum. Aliud Nota de
> vero est nigrum quod ceteris magis templariis
> est nutritivum. Aliud autem est
> rubeum vel rubicundum, et illud
> aliis magis est calidum.
>
> Does anyone have any observations regarding these marginal notes,
> esp. about when they might have been written? I thank you for your comments.
>
> Juris
>
> Juris G. Lidaka Dept. of English
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>
>
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