{"id":33367,"date":"2022-03-01T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=33367"},"modified":"2022-03-01T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:04:50","slug":"the-march-poems-in-the-chronography-of-354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2022\/03\/01\/the-march-poems-in-the-chronography-of-354\/","title":{"rendered":"The March Poems in the Chronography of 354"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of manuscripts contain an image for March.\u00a0 But here again it is the Vatican Barberini manuscript that gives us the 4-line poem, the\u00a0tetrastich<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Cinctum pelle lupae promptum est cognoscere mensem<\/em>
\nMars olli nomen, Mars dedit exuvias.<\/em>
\nTempus vernum haedus petulans et garrula hirundo<\/em>
\nindicat et sinus lactis et herba virens.<\/em><\/p>\n

Know the month clothed with the wolf\u2019s pelt;
\nIts name is Mars, and Mars gave us the skins.
\nThe springtime brings the unruly kid, and the chattering swallow,
\nAnd the pail of milk, and the greening grass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These items are depicted in the image, as we shall see.<\/p>\n

The 2-line poem (=\u00a0distich<\/em>) is also present, one line under the left-hand page, one under the right:<\/p>\n

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Condita Mavortis magno sub nomine Roma<\/em>
\nnon habet errorem: Romulus auctor erit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rome was founded under the great name of Mars
\nThere is no mistake. Romulus will be the founder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The images show a consistency for once: a figure dressed in skins, holding a goat, standing on greenery, with pails of milk and a swallow, with characteristic forked tail.\u00a0 A butter churn is to the left, and above it metal tools that perhaps relate to cheese-making (or so I am told!)<\/p>\n

The 16th century Vienna manuscript 3416 (online\u00a0here<\/a>) gives us this, clearly redrawn, image:<\/p>\n

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Vienna 3146, f. 4v – March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 17th century R1 manuscript, Vat. Barb.lat.2154B (online\u00a0here<\/a>) gives us this, with the tetrastich and the first line of the distich:<\/p>\n

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Vatican, Barberini lat. 2154B, f.18 – March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As before, the offline Brussels MS. , f.201, gives us an image mid-way between the two:<\/p>\n

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Brussels MS 7543-7549, f.201 – March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(For more information on this series of posts, please see the Introduction to the Poems of the Chronography of 354<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of manuscripts contain an image for March.\u00a0 But here again it is the Vatican Barberini manuscript that gives us the 4-line poem, the\u00a0tetrastich: Cinctum pelle lupae promptum est cognoscere mensem Mars olli nomen, Mars dedit exuvias. Tempus vernum haedus petulans et garrula hirundo indicat et sinus lactis et herba virens. Know the month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[422,1354],"class_list":["post-33367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-chronography-of-354","tag-poems-in-the-calendar-of-354"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}