Magninus, Mediolanensis († 1368)
Codex 25, a paper manuscript from the middle of the 15th century, consists of two separate codicological textual units. The first contains an average quality copy (and selection) of the most important and earliest work of the Dominican Johannes Herolt, known as “Discipulus” (d. 1468): De eruditione Christifidelium. The second textual unit was written in 1455 by the scribe Franciscus de Gallandia from Yvonand. It goes by the title Fabulae moralizatate and consists of 122 Latin fables taken from various sources from antiquity, presented in the form of dialogs. Magninus Mediolanensis (d. 1376) and Nicolaus Pergamenus are identified as the authors. Beginning with the first print edition (1480) the Fabulae moralizatae were re-named Dialogus creaturarum optime moralizatus.
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- Magninus, Mediolanensis: (Magnus de Mayneriis, gest. 1376): Fabulae moralizatae (f. 93r-172v )
Incipit: Sol est secundum philosophum occulus mundi, iocunditas dei, pulchritudo celi, mensura terrarum, virtus et origo omnium nascencium, domínus planetarum, doctor et protector omnium stellarum. Luna vero est doctor noctís, mater racionis, humoris ministra mensura terre
Explicit: unde cogita, unde veneris et erubesce ubi es et congemesce quo vadis et pertímesce ut pervenire valeas unde expulsus es. Quod nobís prestare dignetur ílle qui sine fine vivit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum amen.
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