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Add MS 36749
- Record Id:
- 032-001993193
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001993193
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x00014a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 36749
- Title:
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Epistles and Poems; Leo Magister, Poems; Anonymi professoris epistulae; Hierocles, In aureum carmen
- Scope & Content:
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Epistles and Poems; Leo Magister, Poems; Anonymi professoris epistulae; Hierocles, In aureum carmen.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001993193
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 36749, ff 1r-122r : Gregory of Nazianzus,Epistulae (TLG 2022.001), imperfect at the beginning, ff 2r-122r, preceded by a table of contents…
Add MS 36749, ff 123r-131r : Gregory of Nazianzus, Carmina Moralia (TLG 2022.060), 33 (PG 37:927-945), followed by Carmina de se ipso (TLG…
Add MS 36749, ff 131v-135r : Leo Choerosphactes, Carmina IV (TLG 3068.002).
Add MS 36749, ff 135v-232r : Anonymi Professoris Epistulae, the sole witness to 122 letters by an unnamed 9th-century Byzantine professor. Edited…
Add MS 36749, ff 233r-331r : Hierocles, In aureum carmen (TLG 2571.001). The original MS breaks off on f 286v, expl. συντίθησι τῶν,…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 331 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_36749 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 10th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment ( ff 1-286) and paper (ff 287-331; watermark: anchor in a circle, similar to Briquet 464, 467-469, and 471).
Foliation: ff 331. Four unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end.
Dimensions: 180 x 140 mm.
Ruling: 140 x 100 mm, 28 lines per page.
Binding: British Museum, half leather, early 20th century. The leather of the previous binding (17th century?) has been adhered to the inner boards.
Scribe: Ἄγγελος Καλαβρὸς τοῦ Φιλλετη (ff 287r-330v), Repertorium 1A, no. 5: colophon f 330v: Ἐγὼ ἄγγελος καλαβρὸς (τοῦ φιλλέττη supra lin.) ἰερομόναχος (sic) τῆς | μεγάλης μονῆς σ(ωτῆ)ρ(ο)ς τῆς μεσσήνης | ἀνεπλήρωσα τὴν ἐξήγησιν τοῦ ||| ἰεροκλέους (sic) εἰς τὰ χρυσὰ ἔπη τοῦ πυθαγόρου. The 10th-century portion was written by two hands, and the Anonymi professoris epistulae have been corrected by a later hand: Markopoulos 2000, p. 24*.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (ff 1-286) and Italy, S. (Messina) (ff 287-330).
Provenance:
A note by one of the scribes on f 122v is only partially legible: ...κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει...τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἰωάννῃ τῷ...τῷ λ...
Constantine Láscaris (b. 1434, d. 1501), Greek scholar and grammarian: the additions on paper by Angelo Fillete were associated with the school of Láscaris in Messina by Cavallo 1980, pp. 329-40 (see also Martínez Manzano 1998, p. 73 n. 23).
?Senate of Messina: Láscaris bequeathed his library to that institution.
?Juan Francisco Pacheco y Téllez-Girón, 4th Consort Duke of Uceda (b. 1649, d. 1718), Spanish nobleman and vicory of Sicily: he acquired the collection of the Senate of Messina and transferred it to Spain (cf the note in Spanish, f 331r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from B. Quaritch, 13 January 1903.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean (ff 1-286) and Italy, S. (Messina) (ff 287-330).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_36749].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, London 1907, pp. 206-208.
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).
S. G. Mercati, 'Intorno all'autore del carme εἰς τὰ ἐν Πυθίοις θερμά (Leone magistro Choirosphaktes)', Rivista degli Studi Orientali 10 (1923-25), pp. 212-248 [=Collectanea Byzantina I, Bari 1970, pp. 271-309].
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, pp. 65-66.
R. Browning, 'The Correspondence of a Tenth-Century Byzantine Scholar', Byzantion 24 (1954) pp. 397-452 [reprinted in idem, Studies on Byzantine History, Literature and Education, London 1977, art. IX].
F. W. Köhler, Hieroclis in aureum pythagoreorum carmen commentarius, Stuttgart 1974, pp. xix-xx.
G. Cavallo, 'La trasmissione scritta della cultura greca antica in Calabria e in Sicilia tra i secoli X-XV', Scrittura e Civiltà 4 (1980) pp. 157-245 (pp. 239-40).
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
C. Gallavotti, 'Planudea (X). 37. - L'anacreontica de Thermis di Leone Magistro', Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Bollettino dei Classici 3/11 (1990) pp. 78-103.
T. Martínez Manzano, Constantino Láscaris semblanza de un humanista bizantino (Nueva Roma 7), Madrid 1998, p. 73.
A. Markopoulos, Anonymi professoris epistulae, Berlin 2000.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)