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Add MS 5423

Record Id:

032-002167802

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002167802

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x000094

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Format:

ISAD(G)

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Add MS 5423

Title:

Plutarch, Parallel Lives

Scope & Content:

Plutarch, Parallel Lives, including: Verses and epigrams for Plutarch by Agathias (Anthologia Palatina 2.16.331) and an anonymous author, perhaps to be identified as Michael Psellos (3.3.327).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

14 items

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 253.
Dimensions: 262 x 180 mm.
Ruling: 182 x 125 mm, 31 lines per page.
Scribal features: The scribe left space for the headings and initial letters, but only those on f 2 were written (Μάρκελλος).
Binding: Half goat leather binding with brown cloth and leather corners.

Custodial History:

Copied in Italy. Belonged to Cardinal Giovanni Salviati (1490-1553). Acquired by Charles Townley at Rome in 1773, together with several other Salviati manuscripts, including Add MS 5422, Burney 75, 86, 109 and 408.

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by Charles Townley, 5 March 1792.

Publications:

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 5.
A. Cataldi Palau, 'La biblioteca del Cardinale Giovanni Salviati: alcuni nuovi manoscritti greci in biblioteche diverse della Vaticana', Scriptorium, 49 (1995), pp. 60-95.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Mestrius Plutarchus, Lucius, c 46-after 120,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000449227580
Salviati, Giovanni, Cardinal, 1490-1553
Townley, Charles, collector of antiquities, 1737-1805