Compositiones Lucenses and Mappæ Clavicula: two traditions or one? New evidence from empirical analysis and assessment of the literature

Frison, Guido; Brun, Giulia

doi:10.1186/s40494-018-0189-y

Heritage Science

Table 3 The arrangement of six thematic nuclei in four witnesses of the Compositiones Lucenses tradition

From: Compositiones Lucenses and Mappæ Clavicula: two traditions or one? New evidence from empirical analysis and assessment of the literature

Nuclei	Text-units	Lu		S		C		V
1. De fabrica	Dispositio fabricae	–	–	f.14r	1	f.24v	101	–	–
	De fabrica in aqua	f.211v	1	\|	2	f.25r	102	–	–
	De malta	\|	2	f.14v	3	\|	103	f.74r	1
2. Conchylium	De conchylio	f.226r	106	f.19r	33	f.29v	127	f.80v	110
	De tinctione porphyri	f.226r; 230r	107; 148B	f.19v	34	\|	128	\|	111
	De oxiporfiron to apo rodinis	\|	149	\|	35	f.30r	129	\|	112
	De porphyro citrino	\|	150	f.20r	36	\|	130	f.81r	113
	De crysorantista	\|	151	\|	37	–	–	\|	114
	De auri sparsione	\|	152	\|	38	\|	131	\|	115
	De argyrosantista	\|	153	\|	39	\|	132A	\|	116
	De alia argenti sparsione	\|	154	\|	40	\|	132B	\|	117
3. Lapidary (a)	Petra que dicitur smyra	f.230v	155	f.20v	41	f.30v	133	f.81r	118
	Terra que vocant limnia	\|	156A	\|	42	\|	134A	\|	119
	Alumen	\|	156B	\|	43	\|	134B	\|	120
	Terra nigra	\|	156C	\|	44	\|	134C	\|	121
	Lapis qui dicitur focaria	\|	157	\|	45	\|	135	\|	122
	Lapis fissus	\|	158	f.21r	46	f.31r	136	\|	123
	Lapis gagatis	f.231r	159	\|	47	\|	137	f.81v	124
	Lapis trachias	\|	160	\|	48	f.31v	138	\|	125
	Lapis orebus	f.227r	124	\|	49	f.46r	214	\|	126
	Lapis atriens	\|	125	\|	50	\|	215	\|	127
	Lapis fumice	f.227v	126	f.21v	51	f.46v	216	\|	128
4. Lapidary (b)	Lapis olimpus	–	–	f.46r	176	f.35r	163	f.76r	39
	Lapis flebiti	–	–	\|	177	\|	164	\|	40
	Lapis rubeus	–	–	\|	178	\|	165	\|	41
5. Tinctio omnium musivorum	Tinctio omnium musivorum	f.217r	14	f.25r	71	f.49r	224	f.83r	148; 149
	Inauratio musivi	\|	15	\|	72	f.32r	144	\|	150
	De musivum de argento	f.217v	16	\|	72	–	–	\|	151
	De smirutas tabula	\|	17	\|	73	f.32v	145	\|	151
	De coloratione	\|	18	\|	74	\|	146A	\|	152
6. De tinctione vitri	Tinctio vitri prasini	f.217r	5	f.45v	167	f.34v	154	f.76r	30
	Alia tinctio	\|	6	\|	168	\|	155	\|	31
	Alia lactei coloris	\|	7	\|	169	\|	156	\|	32
	Tinctio sanguinea	\|	8	\|	170	\|	157	\|	33
	Tinctio rubea	\|	9	\|	171	\|	158	\|	34
	Tinctio alithini	\|	10	\|	172	\|	159	\|	35
	Quo modo tincta melini coloris	\|	11	\|	173	\|	160	\|	36
	Tinctio rubea	\|	12	\|	174	\|	161	\|	37

Lu Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare, 490, ninth century
S Sélestat, Bibliothèque Humaniste, 17, tenth century
C Corning, Museum of Glass, Phillipps 3175, twelfth century
V Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 2079, twelfth century
No. 1 De fabrica: the ordinal structure is preserved. The manuscripts Lu, S, and C have one text unit missing, and V two texts missing
No. 2. Conchylium: the Lu manuscript shows a break after text No. 108, which continues with text 148B on f. 230r. The ordinal structure is preserved in all other manuscripts. The C manuscript lacks one text unit
No. 3. Lapidary (a): Lu and C manuscripts show a similar order inversion, as their three initial texts are located at the bottom of the set of texts. The manuscripts V and S conserve their consecutio
No. 4. Lapidary (b): this nucleus is absent in Lu; the ordinal structure is present in the remaining manuscripts
No. 5. Tinctio omnium musivorum: the C manuscript includes two ordinal inversions and lacks one text. The V manuscript shows a duplication of one text and a fusion of two texts. The other two manuscripts keep their consecutio
No. 6. De tinctione vitri: all four manuscripts conserve their ordinal structure

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