Les classiques latins dans les florilèges médiévaux antérieurs au XIIIe siècle

The classical florilegia in Latin were very popular in the Middle Ages : from the four centuries (ninth to twelfth) to which the present investigation is limited, more than seventy different florilegia are still extant, preserved in a hundred manuscripts anterior to the thirteenth century. After having proposed a typology and studied the characteristics of all these florilegia (date, origin, diffusion, destination, methods of compilation), the author describes and analyses the two types which are the most widespread : the prosodie florilegia (eight florilegia preserved in 22 manuscripts) and the florilegia with « authorsections », in which, the compilers have taken the classical authors one by one following in general the order of the texts (26 florilegia preserved in 38 manuscripts). In the last group we find, besides numerous florilegia which have received little attention up till now, well-known collections such as the Collectaneum Sedulii Scotti, the Collectanea Heirici Autissiodorensis, the Florilegium Gallicum, the Florilegium Duacense, the Florilegium Angelicum and the Florilegium Sancticrucianum. The other types of florilegia will be discussed in a second article, to appear in the next volume of this periodical.The classical florilegia in Latin were very popular in the Middle Ages : from the four centuries (ninth to twelfth) to which the present investigation is limited, more than seventy different florilegia are still extant, preserved in a hundred manuscripts anterior to the thirteenth century. After having proposed a typology and studied the characteristics of all these florilegia (date, origin, diffusion, destination, methods of compilation), the author describes and analyses the two types which are the most widespread : the prosodie florilegia (eight florilegia preserved in 22 manuscripts) and the florilegia with « authorsections », in which, the compilers have taken the classical authors one by one following in general the order of the texts (26 florilegia preserved in 38 manuscripts). In the last group we find, besides numerous florilegia which have received little attention up till now, well-known collections such as the Collectaneum Sedulii Scotti, the Collectanea Heirici Autissiodorensis, the Florilegium Gallicum, the Florilegium Duacense, the Florilegium Angelicum and the Florilegium Sancticrucianum. The other types of florilegia will be discussed in a second article, to appear in the next volume of this periodical.Munk Olsen Birger. Les classiques latins dans les florilèges médiévaux antérieurs au XIIIe siècle. In: Revue d'histoire des textes, bulletin n°9 (1979), 1980. pp. 47-121