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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture This is a bit of a "hail mary pass" request. I am trying to get my hands on Trinity Coll. Cambridge MS O.7.7, as I am trying to track down a sentence in the Cur Deus Homo. The sentence is "nemo magis probat se hilariter dare que promittit quam qui plus dat quam promittit" (CDH 1.16, Schmitt 1.74). A google search revealed that this exact same sentence appears in the said MS (fols. 60r-64v), in a part that appears to contain a part of book I of Seneca's Epistulae morales, and it appears to be the explicit for this section of the MS. However, I have had no joy in searching the critical editions of the letters. I have a feeling this is an emendation or addition by the medieval scribe (or an unrecorded variant). Every published mention on this MS fixates on the opening texts (Bernard Silvester), although I am waiting for a copy of L.D. Reynold's book on the medieval tradition of these letters. What I would ideally love to have is a look at the MS folios themselves, but our beloved Vatican Film Library does not have a film of it (almost everything else from Trinity!) and since these folios don't have pretty pictures, Trinity College itself has not exposed a digital facsimile on its web site. So here comes the "hail Mary" request: does anybody have any kind of copy of this MS and would be willing to share a copy of these folios? Thanks Jim -- ---------- James R. Ginther, PhD Professor of Medieval Theology & Director, Center for Digital Theology Saint Louis University ------------------------- [log in to unmask] Faculty Page: Departmental Page<https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/james-ginther/> <https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/james-ginther/>Research Blog: http://digital-editor.blogspot.com Twitter: DH_editor <http://twitter.com/#!/DH_editor> <http://digital-editor.blogspot.com> "Blessed are the Geeks for they shall encode the Earth" "...debet esse oratio devota, ne mens sit in foro dum os psallit in choro." - Robert Grosseteste "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." -Edward V. Berard ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html