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This website provides open access research materials from Viridarium consolationis ("Garden of Consolation"), a Latin florilegium containing over 1000 Latin quotations from authoritative sources that was compiled in the mid-13th century by a Dominican friar named Iacobus de Benevento.
The text is primarily a revised edition of the version published in 1880 (and mis-attributed to St. Bonaventure) by Luigi Tosti in Bibliotheca Casinensis IV, 263-315, which was transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript: Montecassino, Archivio dell'Abbazia, MS 207. However, a small portion of the text has been transcribed from an earlier manuscript: Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, MS lat. 1163. This is because Tosti's version, and presumably its manuscript exemplar, lacks two lemmata: 4.2 De patientia and 5.11 De doctoribus sacre scripture. The Modena manuscript was selected for this purpose from the over 150 known surviving manuscript copies because it is one of the few extant copies of Viridarium dating from the 13th century, and one of only two manuscripts that attribute it to Iacobus de Benevento (nearly all copies are anonymous), an attribution confirmed by Tommaso Kaeppeli in "Iacopo da Benevento O.P.," Archivio italiano per la storia della pieta, 1 (1951), 463-79.
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