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
Greek treatises on warfare, with numerous drawings
Scope & Content:
Greek treatises on warfare, with numerous drawings. Includes works by Athenaeus, Biton, Heron, Apollodorus, Philo of Byzantium, Leo VI the Wise, and others.
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
Apparatus Bellicus, printed in Thévenot 1693, pp. 275-316, and discussed in Dain 1967. Included (ff 2r-2v) is a πίναξ, and there are many corrections and marginal notes, partly Latin, in a later hand. Tit. ᾽Ιουλίου ἀφρικανοῦ κεστοί. Included are excerpts from Sextus Julius Africanus's Cesti Book ...
Codex Crippsianus, containing speeches by the minor Attic Orators, including Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus, Antiphon, Lycurgus, Gorgias, Alcidamas, and Lesbonax. One of the primary witnesses of the texts of the Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus and Antiphon.
Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilium (TLG 2040.002), and other works
Scope & Content:
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.