Collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions copied by Anthony Askew in the Levant and Greece
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Collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions copied by Anthony Askew, M.D., in the Levant and Greece, with notes on their situation, size, state of preservation, etc.
Two copies of Livy's History of Rome bound together in the 18th century. Part 1 (ff. 1r-108v) contains Books 1-10 copied by a late-14th-century hand, Part 2 (ff. 109r-417r) contains Book 1-10 and 21-30 in a 15th-century copy made around 1464. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Donato degli Albanzani, Tabula...
Virgil, Aeneid, Pseudo-Virgil, Culex, Basil of Caesarea, Argumentum, prologue, notes and epigrams
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Virgil, Aeneid, Pseudo-Virgil, Culex, Basil of Caesarea, Argumentum, prologue, notes and epigrams. Decoration: Small decorated foliate initials, executed in ink, sometime with a colour wash. Guide letters.
Cicero, Philippics, omitting 5.12-6.6 (from legatorum mentionem to nunquam vidi at f. 57v line 12) (ff. 1r-122v). Decoration: Decorated with initials in gold with white vine-stem ornament on a deep blue ground (ff. 1r, 10r, 37r, 46v, 50r, 58r, 63v, 70v, 74v, 81r, 91v, 99v, 113r), the lower mar...
Cicero, De Oratore (ff. 1r-166v). Decoration: Decorated with six- and seven-line vine-stem initials pen-drawn in plain ink (ff. 50r, 122r); the first page with the arms of Maffei of Volterra within a wreath, added in the lower margin, as in Burney MS 161, and a foliate initial contemporary wit...
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.
A typical humanistic collectionof texts relating to classical ideas of education of the youth. Contents: ff. 1r-11v: RufiusFestus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populiRomani, begins ‘Ruffi Sexti viri consularis rerumgestarum populi Romani, Valentiniano Augusto, liber incipit feliciter.: Pioperpet...
Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem, imperfect; Julius Paris, Epitome of Valerius Maximus, 1-2, ending incomplete
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Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem (ff. 1v-145v), imperfect: lacking 5.1.6-5.2.5 due to the loss of a leaf after f. 70 (from insidiis cum su[mmo] to [tri]umphantis quia captus); Julius Paris, Epitome of Valerius Maximus, 1-2, ending incomplete (ff. 145v-146r). Decor...
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.
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...