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Egerton MS 2624
- Record Id:
- 032-001609080
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001609080
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x000179
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2624
- Title:
- Thucydides, Historiae (TLG 0003.001) with numerous scholia and a few glosses added later
- Scope & Content:
- Thucydides, Historiae (TLG 0003.001) with numerous scholia and a few glosses added later. Prefaced (ff i recto-iii recto) by a type-written description of the manuscript by J. Enoch Powell, dated February 1935.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001609080
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001609080
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 307 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_2624 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff iii + 307. In addition, two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end.
Dimensions: 295 x 215 mm
Ruling: 205 x 140 mm, 29-30 lines per page.
Binding: 18th century. Gold-tooled English brown binding.
Script: Written by a group of scribes, possibly as many as 50 distinct hands according to the type-written notes of J. Enoch Powell (ff i recto - iii recto).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
Belonged to the monastery of the Chora, Constantinople: Bianconi 2005, p. 413.
Nicephorus Gregoras (b. c. 1295, d. 1360), Byzantine astronomer and historian: pinax of Xenophon's Hellenica in his hand, f 307r: Fonkitch 1999, p. 72.
Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, lot 602.
Michael Wodhull (b. 1740, d. 1816), book collector and poet: purchased at Askew's sale in 1785.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased at Sotheby’s (J. E. Severne sale, of items collected by Michael Wodhull), 11-21 January 1886. Bought using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Administrative Context:
-
Italy, Central (Florence).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_2624].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1882-1887, London 1889, p. 356.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) p. 151.
A guide to the exhibition of some part of the Egerton Collection of manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1929, p. 23, no. 74.
A. Dain, 'Liste des Manuscrits de Thucydide', Revue des études grecques 46 (1933) pp. 20-28, 476, esp. p. 22.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 86.
B. L. Fonkitch, 'Les nouveaux autographes de Nicéphore Grégoras', in Manuscrits grecs dans les collections européennes: études paléographiques et codicologiques 1988-1998, Moscow 1999, pp. 62-77 (p. 72).
D. Bianconi, 'La biblioteca di Cora tra Massimo Planude e Niceforo Gregora. Una questione di mani', Segno e Testo 3 (2005) pp. 391-438 (p. 413).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)