Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilium (TLG 2040.002), and other works
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Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilium (TLG 2040.002), followed by the Carmina Aurea attributed to Pythagoras, and extracts from Hesiod's Works and Days and Theocritus.
Letters by or attributed to classical and Byzantine figures, including Libanius, Nicholas Cabasilas, Brutus, Demetrius Cydones, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others
Scope & Content:
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
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