Letters by or attributed to classical and Byzantine figures, including Libanius, Nicholas Cabasilas, Brutus, Demetrius Cydones, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others
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Letters by or attributed to classical and Byzantine figures, including Libanius, Nicholas Cabasilas, Brutus, Demetrius Cydones, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Latin translation of Hephaestion, Enchiridion, by Vincente Mariner Valentine, with descriptions, a preface, and a translated Latin epigram
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ff. 2r-7v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Preface addressed to Francisco de Rioja, librarian and poet. Latin. ff. 8r-8v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Epigram addressed to Francisco de Rioja, with a Latin translation. ff. 9r-136v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Latin translation of Hephaestian's Enchi...
Ioannes Doxapatres, Commentary on Hermogenes' 'Περὶ ἰδεῶν', with fragments of a rhetorical commentary
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f. 1r: Three fragments from a rhetorical commentary, without rubrics. Inc. (1) λόγων· ἤ τότε ἐμπειρίας διὰ σαφῶν; (2) θαροῦντες γὰρ τῷ τῆς φύσεως; (3) ἐπιστήμην ἐνταῦθα, οὐ τὴν ἀντιδιαιρουμενὴν (sic). ff. 2r-304r: Ioannes Doxapatres, Commentary on Hermogenes' 'Περὶ ἰδεῶν.' Inc. ὥσπερ ἐν ταῖς εἰ...
Heraclides Lembus' extracts from Aristotle, Politeia, extracts from Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, and Aelian, De natura animalium, and Epictetus, Enchiridion. The manuscript was identified as part of codex f of Aelian's Varia Historia by Dilts (1965) pp. 67-68
Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica (TLG 0559.001), with extensive Latin marginal annotations and many pen diagrams, ff 2r-41v. Preceded on f 1r by an extract from Vitruvius, De architectura 9.9, inc. Item sunt ex aqua, expl. ex aqua comparationes explicuit.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Proclus of Athens, In Platonis Alcibiadem I (TLG 4036.007), imperfect
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Proclus of Athens, In Platonis Alcibiadem I (TLG 4036.007). Imperfect, inc. φησὶν ἀνενδεής. οὐκοῦν ὅτι μὲν ὁ εὐδαίμων (p. 10413) and expl. συνοῖδεν ὅτι τὸ μὲν (p. 16820). Erroneously attributed to Iamblichus in the manuscript, marginal title ᾽Εκ τῶν τοῦ ᾽Ιαμβλίχου μυστηρίων.