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The '''Vatican Terence''', or '''Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868''', is an illuminated manuscript of the comedies of [[Terence|Publius Terentius Afer]] in Latin, from the 9th century, housed in the [[Vatican Library]]. According to art-historical analysis the manuscript was copied from a model of the 3rd century. |
The '''Vatican Terence''', or '''Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868''', is an [[illuminated manuscript]] of the comedies of [[Terence|Publius Terentius Afer]] in Latin, from the 9th century, housed in the [[Vatican Library]]. According to art-historical analysis the manuscript was copied from a model of the 3rd century. |
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The Vatican Terence, or Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868, is an illuminated manuscript of the comedies of Publius Terentius Afer in Latin, from the 9th century, housed in the Vatican Library. According to art-historical analysis the manuscript was copied from a model of the 3rd century.
Description
The manuscript was made at Corvey, about the year 825, the name of the scribe was Hrodgarius. The illustrations were made by three artists, one of them was named Adelricus.[1] It contains illustrations of 141 scenes. Bischoff dated the manuscript between 820-830.[1]
It is an example of Carolingian art, but the illustrations follow an antique model.[1] The text of the manuscript in English translation was edited by George Colman in 1768.[2] The Latin text was edited by Christoph Stiegemann and Matthias Wemhoff.
The archetype of the codex
Since the end of the 19th century many scholars tried to estimate the date of the model, from which Vaticanus 3868 was copied. According to Weitzmann it is a most faithful copy of a late classical original manuscript.[1] On the basis of the art-historical data the manuscript was dated to the 5th century by Weitzmann, Koehler, and Mütherich.[3] The artist was schooled in the Greco-Asiatic manner.[4] This point of view dominated before World War II.
In the 1960's another more detailed art-historical analysis were made. The pictures of female masks were compared with three female masks dated between the years ca. 242 - ca. 267. The hair-style of the Terence portrait is close to the one favoured by emperors between the years 238-249. It means that models from which codex was copied were made in the 3rd century.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d C. R. Dodwell, Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 4.
- ^ The comedies of Terence (1768), ed. George Colman, London.
- ^ C. R. Dodwell, Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 5.
- ^ C. R. Dodwell, Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 6.
- ^ C. R. Dodwell, Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 12-20.
Further reading
- Phormio. Translated into English prose by M.H. Morgan, with a new prologue by J.B. Greenough, and with the Vatican miniatures accurately reproduced for the first time (1894) Cambridge.
- The comedies of Terence (1768), ed. George Colman, London.
- C. R. Dodwell (2000). Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–21. ISBN 0 521 661889 9.
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External links
- "The most ingenious and expressive work of narrative art known from all of Late Antiquity" (820) 2004-2012 Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.