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Document Details : Title: In the Margins of the City of God Subtitle: Coluccio Salutati's Annotations in Reading Augustine Author(s): URLINGS, Sam Journal: Augustiniana Volume: 73 Issue: 1 Date: 2023 Pages: 89-137 DOI: 10.2143/AUG.73.1.3292389 Abstract : The present article considers the marginal notes added by Florentine chancellor Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406) in the manuscript containing Augustine’s De civitate Dei once in his possession: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms. Ott. lat. 349. After the introduction reflects on the nature of such marginalia, the contextual features of the manuscript, and how, exactly, we are to approach these notes and their authorship, a typology of notes sorts them into four broad categories. The first (and largest) concerns encyclopaedic notes and so-called notabilia that simply point to names in the text, shaping the City of God into a repository of information on the classical world. The second, in contrast, shows how Salutati could engage with the work’s contents in a more in-depth manner. The third involves text-critical notes, which serve to emend scribal mistakes or otherwise provide alternative readings; and the fourth concerns a limited number of lexical curiosities. The resulting typology serves to help parse the two included appendices: (1) an exhaustive transcription of all of Salutati’s marginalia in order of appearance, with references to the relevant folios and sections from the De civitate Dei; and (2) an alphabetical index nominum covering the historical, mythological and biblical names cited in the chancellor’s notes. Published in their entirety for the first time, the marginalia in ms. Ott. lat. 349 constitute a valuable resource in our attempts to trace the humanist reception of Augustine. |
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