Recueil de sentences

Anonymous manuscript of Latin quotations. Large alphabetical table listing the themes of the quotations. Each page is composed of 2 main columns, with the translation in the margin and the quotation opposite. The work proceeds by authors and works: Juvenal, Horace (The Odes and Epodes), Propertius and Tibullus, Lucan (The Pharsalia), Petronius; Ovid (Book of Fasti, The Loves, Heroides, Letters, Elegies, The Metamorphoses); Virgil (The Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics); Martial (Epigrams); Seneca (Tragedies).
From page 169, the handwriting is different, more careful, more spaced out, with initial letters, capitals... (some titles and letters in bold). Each quotation is preceded by a thematic title which can be found in the table.
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Split headcaps, upper joint open with lack of leather. 3 corners slightly bumped. Lower joint open at foot. A strip of leather torn from the upper cover, similarly on the lower cover.
The work is not a classical collection of Latin quotations, but a systematic survey of everything remarkable in each work. The Metamorphoses, for example, are studied book by book, and it is the same for all the works selected. It is thus that this anonymous collection was intended to allow excellent knowledge of Latin authors, not through a few well-known quotations, but through the memorization of large extracts on all the subjects addressed in the principal Latin works.