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Appendix I: Carmina Tertulliano adscripta, Genesis

Editors' preface

INCERTI AUCTORIS GENESIS.

GENESIS, BY AN UNCERTAIN AUTHOR.

Principio Dominus coelum terramque creavit, Namque erat informis, fluctuque abscondita tellus, Immensusque Deus super aequora vasta meabat, Dum chaos et nigrae fuscabant cuncta tenebrae. Has dum di⟨s⟩jungi jussit de cardine, fatur: Lux fiat, claro et nituerunt omnia mundo. Cum Dominus primi complesset facta diei, Condidit albentem nebulis nascentibus axem, Accipit immensus verrentia littora pontus, Multiplices sapiens validis cum tractibus amnes. Tertia lux faciem terrarum fulva retexit, Arida mox posito narratur nomine terrae, Florea ventosis consurgunt germina campis, Pomiferique simul procurvant brachia rami. Quarta dies generat solis cum lampade lunam, Et stellas tremulo radiantes lumine fingit, Haec elementa dedit subjecto insignia mundo, Tempora quae doceant varios mutanda per ortus. At quinta accipiunt liquentia flumina pisces, Et volucres varias suspendunt aere pennas. Sexta praegelidos in spiras lubricat angues. Quadrupedumque greges totos diffundit in agros; Cunctaque multiplici mandavit crescere passim Germine, et immensis errare et pascere terris. Haec ubi constituit divina potentia jussu, Rectorem inspiciens mundanis defore rebus, Haec memorat: Nostris hominem faciamus ad unguem, Vultibus adsimilem, toto qui regnet in orbe, Et licet hunc uno posset componere verbo, Ipse tamen sancta dignatus ducere dextra, Inspirat brutum divino a pectore pectus.

In the beginning the Lord created heaven and earth, for the earth was formless and hidden by the flood, and God, immense, moved over the vast waters, while chaos and black darkness darkened all things. When He commanded these to be parted from their hinge, He speaks: Let there be light; and all things shone in a bright world. When the Lord had completed the works of the first day, He founded the sky, white with rising clouds; the immense sea receives the shores it sweeps, and, wise, the manifold rivers with their strong currents. The third light, tawny, uncovered the face of the lands; soon the dry land is spoken of, the name of earth being given it; flowery shoots rise up in the windy fields, and at the same time the fruit-bearing boughs bend down their arms. The fourth day begets the moon together with the lamp of the sun, and fashions the stars radiant with trembling light; it gave these elements as signs to the world beneath, to teach that the seasons are to change through their various risings. But on the fifth the flowing waters receive the fish, and the birds hold their varied wings suspended in the air. The sixth makes the chill snakes slippery in their coils, and spreads the herds of four-footed beasts over all the fields; and He commanded all things to increase everywhere with manifold offspring, and to wander and graze over the immense lands. When the divine power had established these things by command, seeing that a ruler would be lacking to the things of the world, He says this: Let us make man exactly like Our countenance, to reign over the whole world; and though He could have formed him with one word, yet He Himself, deigning to shape [him] with His holy right hand, breathes into the brute breast from the divine breast.

Editors' notes and page, col. 1155

Footnotes

(Notes printed full-width under the heading "Variae lectiones." Calls 40 and 41 fall outside this column and are not visible in the foot images; call 35 is seen in the column image, after creavit.) (printed under page 582)

(35) ‹anchor: creavit› · call in col 1155

Locavit, cod. Victorinus.

Locavit ("placed"): the Victorine manuscript.

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(36) ‹anchor: claro et› · call in col 1155

Claro. Sic Pamelius post Fabricium. Clari Morel. et cod. Victor.

Claro: so Pamelius, following Fabricius. Clari: Morel and the Victorine manuscript.

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(37) ‹anchor: immensus verrentia› · call in col 1155

Errantia, Baluz. ex cod. Vict.

Errantia ("wandering"): Baluze, from the Victorine manuscript.

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(38) ‹anchor: suspendunt aere› · call in col 1155

Corpore, Morel. cod. Victor.

Corpore ("with the body"): Morel and the Victorine manuscript.

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(39) ‹anchor: faciamus ad› · call in col 1155

In, Morel. cod. Victor.

In: Morel and the Victorine manuscript.

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(40) ‹anchor: not visible› · call not visible in the foot images

Artificis formatum in imagine, editor Oxoniensis, Baluz.

Artificis formatum in imagine ("formed in the image of the Maker"): the Oxford editor and Baluze.

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(41) ‹anchor: not visible› · call not visible in the foot images

Non patitur conjic. Baluzius

Non patitur ("does not allow"): Baluze's conjecture.

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Editors' prose

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running head: 1155 AD GENUINA TERTULI (cut off at image edge)
marginal letters: A Et cui cuncta patet; B Principio Dominus coelum; C (none seen); D Et licet hunc uno
old-edition numerals: 1099 after rebus
other: a full-width band stands across cols 1155/1156 in mid-page: the lines above it in both columns end the previous work and are a pointer only (cut on receipt); the band itself (its title line INCERTI AUCTORIS GENESIS) was set at the head of c1155 by full_width, settle rounds 1 and 2
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Quem postquam effigie formatum, ceu sua vidit, Metitur solum mordaces solvere curas. Illicet irriguo persuadit lumina somno, Mollius ut vulsa formetur femina costa, Atque artus mixtu gemino substantia firmet. Inditur et nomen vitae, quod dicitur Eva. Quapropter nati linquunt de morte parentes. Conjugibusque suis positis cum sedibus haerent: Septima quando Deus factorum, fine quievit, Sacrata statuens venturi gaudia saecli; Illicet exhibitus animantum ex ordine turbis, Viritim cunctis nomen quod permanet indit, Adami a Domino donata scientia solers. Quem Deus alloquio, junctam dignatur et Evam: Crescite multimodo ventura in tempora partu. Ut polus et plenae vestro sint germine terrae, Haeredesque mei, varios decerpite fructus, Quos nemora et pingui reddunt de cespite campi. Haec ubi disseruit, laeta paradisus in aula Instruitur, primique aspectat lumina solis. Gignitur hac inter, pomis letalibus arbor, Conjunctum generans vitae mortisque saporem. Aedibus in mediis puro fuit agmine flumen, Quod rigat insignes liquidis de fluctibus ortus, Quadrifidesque secat undante ex fonte meatus. Phison auriferis praedives fluctuat undis, Conspicuasque terit rauco de gurgite gemmas; Prasinus huic nomen, illi est carbunculus ardens, Perspicuusque vadis terram praelambit Evilat. Post hunc Aethiopas Gaeon adlapsus opimat, Tertius est Tigris, Euphrati adjunctus amoeno, Assyriam celeri discretim flumine sulcans.

After He saw him formed in the likeness, as His own, He considers how [the man], alone, may loosen his gnawing cares. Forthwith He persuades his eyes into watering sleep, so that more gently, from a rib plucked out, a woman might be formed, and substance might strengthen her limbs by a twofold mixture. And there is given her also the name of life, which is called Eve. Wherefore children leave their parents on account of death. And they cleave to their spouses, with their dwellings established: when on the seventh [day] God rested at the end of His works, establishing the hallowed joys of the age to come; forthwith, the throngs of living creatures being presented in order, the skilful knowledge of Adam, given by the Lord, gives to all, one by one, a name which endures. Him God deigns to address, and Eve joined to him: Increase with manifold birth into times to come, so that the sky and the lands may be full of your offspring, and, as My heirs, pluck the various fruits which the groves and the fields render from the rich turf. When He had set these things forth, paradise is furnished as a joyful court, and beholds the lights of the first sun. Among these there springs up a tree with deadly fruits, producing the joined savour of life and death. In the midst of the dwellings there was a river with a pure course, which waters the notable gardens with its liquid waves, and cuts fourfold channels from the surging spring. Phison, very rich, surges with gold-bearing waves, and wears down conspicuous gems with its hoarse flood; prasinus is the name of the one, of the other the glowing carbuncle; and, clear in its shallows, it laps the land of Evilat. After it Gaeon, gliding by, enriches the Ethiopians; the third is Tigris, joined to the pleasant Euphrates, furrowing Assyria apart with swift stream.

Editors' notes and page, col. 1156

Footnotes

(42) ‹anchor: venturi gaudia› · call in col 1156

Sacratam s. v. ad gaudia, cod. Victor. Bal.

Sacratam s. v. ad gaudia ("[the seventh day] consecrated, appointing it for the joys of the age to come"): the Victorine manuscript and Baluze.

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(43) ‹anchor: Viritim› · call in col 1156 (the call is misprinted "42" in the text)

Distinctim edit. Oxon.

Distinctim ("distinctly"): the Oxford edition.

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(44) ‹anchor: donata scientia› · call in col 1156

Prudentia Morel. Pamel. Adamus donata sibi prudentia. cod. Vict.

Prudentia ("wisdom"): Morel and Pamelius. Adamus donata sibi prudentia ("Adam, with the wisdom given him"): the Victorine manuscript.

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(45) ‹anchor: pingui reddunt› · call in col 1156

Reddent Vict.

Reddent ("will yield"): the Victorine manuscript.

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running head: [GE]NUINA TERTULLIANI OPERA 1156 (cut off at left edge)
marginal letters: A Tum rectas et adite vias; B Quem postquam effigie formatum; C (none seen in images); D Post hunc Aethiopas Gaeon
old-edition numerals: (none)
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Hic positus custos Adamus cum conjuge fida, Atque opifex, tali formatur voce Tonantis: Ne trepidate simul licitos praecerpere fructus, Quos nemus intonsum ramo frondente creavit: Solliciti ne forte malum noxale legatis, Quod viret ex gemino discreto ad munia succo. Ncc minus interea caecos nox alta tenebat, Ac modo formatos nec vestis texerat artus.

Adam, set here as guardian with his faithful wife, and as worker, is instructed by such a voice of the Thunderer: "Do not fear together to pluck the permitted fruits, which the unshorn grove has brought forth on leafy branch; but take care lest by chance you gather the noxious apple, which flourishes from a twofold sap divided for its functions." Nor meanwhile did deep night any the less hold them blind, and no garment yet covered their newly formed limbs.

Has inter sedes, et baccis mitibus ortus, Spumeus astuto vincens animalia sensu, Serpebat tacite spiris frigentibus anguis; Livida mordaci volvens mendacia sensu, Femineo tentat sub pectore mollia corda. Dic mihi cur metuas felicia germina mali? Numquid poma Deus non omnia nota sacravit? E queis si studeas mellitos carpere victus, Aureus astrigero remeabit cardine mundus. Il⟨l⟩a negat, vetitosque timet contingere ramos; Sed tamen infirmo vincuntur pectora sensu. Illicet ut niveo jam mitia dente momordit, Adfulsit nulla maculatum nube serenum. Tum sapor illecebram mellitis faucibus indens, Compulit insueto munus deferre marito. Quod simul ac sumpsit, detersa nocte, nitentes Emicuere oculi, mundo splendente, sereni. Ergo ubi nudatum prospexit corpus uterque, Cumque pudenda vident, ficulnis frondibus umbrant. Forte sub occiduo Domini jam lumine solis Agnoscunt sonitum, trepidique ad devia tendunt. Tum Dominus coeli moestum compellat Adamum: Dic ubi nunc degas? Respondit talia supplex: O Domine, adfatus pavido sub corde tremisco, Magne, tuos; nudusque metu frigente fatigor. Tum Dominus: Quis poma dedit noxalia vobis? Tradidit haec mulier, dum dicit lumina promptim Candenti perfusa die, liquidumque serenum Adfulsisse sibi, solemque et sidera coeli. Protinus ira Dei turbatam territat Evam, Auctorem vetiti dum quaerit maximus acti. Illa sub haec pandit: Serpentis suasa loquentis Accepi, fallente dolo, blandoque rogatu; Nam sua vipereis intexens verba venenis, Haec mihi prae cunctis narravit dulcia pomis. Ilicet omnipotens condemnat gesta draconis, Praecipiens cunctis invisum visere monstrum, Pectore mox fuso prorepere, tum sola morsu Mandere, mansuro quaecumque in tempora bello, Humanos inter sensus, ipsumque labantem, Vertice ut abjecto pronus post crura virorum Serperet, ut calcet dum labens cominus instat. Femina fraudigeris misere decepta loquelis,

Amid these abodes, and sprung up among the mellow berries, the foaming snake, surpassing the animals in cunning sense, was creeping silently in chill coils; turning over livid lies with biting sense, he tempts the soft heart within the woman's breast: "Tell me, why do you fear the happy fruits of the apple-tree? Has God not consecrated all the known fruits? If you are eager to pluck honeyed nourishment from them, the golden world will return upon its star-bearing hinge." She refuses, and fears to touch the forbidden branches; yet her breast is overcome by weak sense. As soon as she had bitten the mellow fruit with her snowy tooth, a clear sky, stained by no cloud, shone upon her. Then the taste, putting allurement into her honeyed throat, compelled her to bring the gift to her husband, unused to it. As soon as he took it, the night was wiped away, and their eyes flashed forth shining and clear, as the world grew bright. So when each beheld the body laid bare and they saw their shameful parts, they shade them with fig leaves. By chance, under the now setting light of the Lord's sun, they recognize a sound, and trembling make for byways. Then the Lord of heaven addresses the sorrowful Adam: "Tell, where are you now staying?" He answered thus, as a suppliant: "O Lord, great One, I tremble with fearful heart at Thy addresses; and naked I am worn out by chilling fear." Then the Lord: "Who gave you the noxious apples?" "The woman handed these over, while saying that promptly her eyes were flooded with shining day, and that a clear, bright sky shone upon her, and the sun and the stars of heaven." Forthwith the wrath of God terrifies the troubled Eve, while the Greatest seeks the author of the forbidden deed. Thereupon she discloses: "I received the persuasions of the speaking Serpent, with deceiving guile and coaxing request; for, weaving his words with viperous venoms, he told me these were sweet above all apples." At once the Almighty condemns the deeds of the dragon, ordering the monster, hateful for all to look upon, thenceforth to creep forth on outspread breast, then to chew the soil with his bite, in a war to last for all times among human senses; and that he himself, slipping, with head cast down, should creep prone behind the legs of men, so that, while slipping he presses close, [man] may tread on him. The woman, wretchedly deceived by fraud-bearing speeches,

Editors' notes and page, col. 1157

Footnotes

(No note is called in this column. Note 46, printed under page 583, is called in col. 1158 and set in n1158; Q2 removed the duplicate that stood here.)

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running head: 1157 APPENDIX I. — G (cut off at image edge)
marginal letters: A Hic positus custos; B Numquid poma Deus; C Agnoscunt sonitum; D Haec mihi prae
old-edition numerals: 1100 after mundus.
misprint kept as printed: Ncc (for Nec), line "Ncc minus interea caecos nox alta tenebat"

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Praecipitur duro discrimine ponere partum, Servitiumque sui studio perferre mariti. Tu vero cui visa fuit sententia verax Conjugis, immiti cessit quae victa draconi, Deflebis miserum per tempora longa laborem, Nam tibi triticeae surget pro germine messis ⟨C⟩arduus, et spinis multum paliurus acutis: Ut cum visceribus lassis et pectore moesto, Plurima sollicitos praestent suspiria victus: Donec in occiduo venientis tempore mortis, Unde geris corpus terrae reddare jacenti. His actis, Dominus trepidis dat taedia vitae, Dejectosque procul sacratis dimovet hortis, Obversosque locat, medioque eliminat igni, In quo perceleri Cherubin evolvitur aestu, Dum calidus defervet apex, flammasque volutat. Queis Dominus, pigro ne frigore membra rigerent, Consuit evulsas pecudum de viscere pelles, Operiens nudos calidis de vestibus artus.

is commanded to bring forth offspring in harsh peril, and with zeal to bear servitude to her husband. But you, to whom the counsel of your wife seemed true, she who yielded, overcome, to the cruel serpent, will bewail wretched toil through long ages; for in place of the growth of the wheaten harvest there will spring up for you the thistle, and the thorn-bush abounding in sharp spines, so that, with weary entrails and grieving breast, your anxious sustenance may afford very many sighs, until, in the setting time of death as it comes, you give back to the lowly earth the body that you bear from it. These things done, the Lord gives the trembling pair weariness of life, and removes them, cast out, far from the hallowed gardens, and sets them with their backs turned, and shuts them out by a fire in between, in which the Cherubim is whirled about with very swift heat, while the burning tip seethes and rolls flames. For them the Lord, lest their limbs grow stiff with sluggish cold, sewed together skins torn from the flesh of cattle, covering their naked limbs with warm garments.

Ergo ubi conjugio sese jam fidus Adamus Esse virum sensit, nomen genitricis amatae Exhibet uxori. Bino qui germine factus Continuo genitor, diversis nuncupat orsis: Atque Cain hic nomen habet, cui junctus Abelus. Innocuas hujus servabat cura bidentes, Ast alius curvo terram vertebat aratro. Hi cum perpetuo ferrent sua dona Tonanti, Dissimiles fructus sensu suadente dedere. Nam prior uberibus fuerant quae prosata glebis, Obtulit; ast alius miti se devovet agno, Exta manu sincera gerens, adipemque nivalem; Confestimque placet Domino pia vota tuenti. Quod propter gelida Cain incanduit ira. Queis Deus adloquio dignatus, talibus infit: Dic mihi, si rectum vivas, et noxia cernas, Degere non possis contracto a crimine purus? Desine mordaci fratrem disperdere sensu; Qui tibi ceu domino subjectus colla daturus: Nec tamen his fractus, fratrem deducit ad arva, Atque ubi deprensum deserto in gramine vidit, Elidit, geminis frangens pia guttura palmis. Quod factum dominus coelo speculatus ab alto, Disquirit, quonam terrarum degat Abelus? Ille negat positum custodem se fore fratris. Cui Deus effatur: Numnam vox sanguinis ejus Ad me missa sonat, celsumque ascendit ad axem? Nosce igitur mansura tibi pro crimine tanto: Nam modo quae maduit germani sanguine terra, Inviso maledicta tibi commissa negabit Semina, et adsumptis fructum non proferet herbis, Torpidus ut multo collidens membra tremore.

So when faithful Adam perceived that he was now a husband in wedlock, he bestows on his wife the name of beloved mother. He, made a father forthwith by a twofold offspring, names them with differing words: and this one has the name Cain, and joined to him is Abel. The care of the latter kept the harmless sheep, but the other turned the earth with the curved plough. When these brought their gifts to the everlasting Thunderer, they gave dissimilar fruits, as their mind prompted. For the first offered what had been sown in the rich clods; but the other devotes himself with a gentle lamb, bearing the entrails with a sincere hand, and the snowy fat; and at once the pious vows please the Lord as He looks on. On account of which Cain glowed with chill wrath. To whom God, deigning to address him, speaks thus: "Tell me, if you live rightly and discern what is harmful, could you not live pure of crime contracted? Cease to destroy your brother with a biting mind; who, subject to you as to a lord, is about to bow his neck to you." Yet not broken by these words, he leads his brother out to the fields, and when he saw him caught in the deserted grass, he crushes him, breaking the pious throat with both palms. This deed the Lord beheld from high heaven, and inquires where on earth Abel dwells. He denies that he was appointed to be his brother's keeper. To whom God speaks: "Does not the voice of his blood, sent to Me, resound and ascend to the lofty pole? Know therefore what will abide for you for so great a crime: for the earth which has just been soaked with a brother's blood, accursed, will refuse to you, the hated one, the seeds entrusted to it, and will not bring forth fruit from the herbs taken up, so that, torpid, dashing your limbs together with much trembling

Editors' notes and page, col. 1158

Footnotes

(46) ‹anchor: germine factus› · call in col 1158

Binos q. g. factos. cod. Vict.

Binos q. g. factos (that is, binos qui germine factos, "the two made by birth"): the Victorine manuscript.

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(47) ‹anchor: geminis frangens› · call in col 1158

Fraudant, Morel.

Fraudant ("they cheat"): Morel.

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(48) ‹anchor: effatur: Numnam› · call in col 1158

Nonne Morel.

Nonne ("does not …?"): Morel.

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