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Add MS 6898
- Record Id:
- 032-002167942
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002167942
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x00009d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6898
- Title:
- Galen, De methodo medendi libri xiv, with annotations; Hippocrates, Aphorismi
- Scope & Content:
- Galen, De methodo medendi libri xiv, with annotations; Hippocrates, Aphorismi
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002167942
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 6898, f 1v : Fragment similar to the beginning from the Synodikon of Orthodoxy Sunday; inc: + ᾿Εποφειλομένη πρὸς…
Add MS 6898, ff 1-160v : Galen, De methodo medendi libri xiv (TLG 0057.066), with annotations; f 1 text preceded by notes inc.: [...]ερ…
Add MS 6898, f 160v : Hippocrates, Aphorismi (TLG 0627.012) 1-1.7.1 9, imperfect, expl. Ὅκου μὲν κάτοξυ τὸ νούσημα.
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- 032-002167942
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 3 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_6898 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Paper.
- Foliation: ff 160.
- Dimensions: 350 x 230 mm, 36 lines per page.
- Ruling: 260 x 180 mm, LeRoy 20D1.
- Binding: Full calf leather binding, 18th century.
- Scribes: 2 scribes: (1) ff 1, 160; (2) ff 2-159.
- Custodial History:
- Owned by John son of Manuel Iatros (doctor?) (f 160v Tούτω τω βιβλί(ον) ἔνει Ἰω(άννου) υἱοῦ κῦρ Μανουὴλ τοῦ Ἰατρ(οῦ)). Owned by the Cypriot Jannus Podocatharus. Owned by Francesco Barbaro’s family c. 1488. Ownership information was probably given on f 1 (in a previous foliation), which is now missing (see Mittarelli [1779] and Mioni [1958]): Iste liber est mei Jani Podocathari equitis regii et legum doctoris, nunc autem mei Francisci Barbari.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased at Sotheby’s, May 1826.
- Publications:
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- Bibliotheca codicum manuscriptorum monasterii S. Michaelis Venetiarum prope Murianum : una cum append. librorum impr. seculi 15. Opus posthumum Johannis Benedicti Mittarelli, Veneti Abbatis ex-generalis, Benedictino-Camaldulensis (Venice, 1779), p. xvii, col. 424.
- H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, 2 vols, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin, 1906), vol. II: Die übrigen griechischen Ärzte ausser Hippokrates und Galenos, p. 92.
- E. Barbaro, Epistolae, orationes et carmina. Edizione critica a cura di Vittore Branca, 2 vols., Nuova collezione di testi umanistici inediti o rari. vols 5, 6. (1943), epistles xci, cxxiii.
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 6.
- E. Mioni, 'I manoscritti greci di s. Michele di Murano’, Italia Medioevale e Umanistica, 1 (1958), 317-343.
- A. Diller, 'The library of Francesco and Ermolao Barbaro', Italia medioevale e umanistica, 6 (1963), pp. 253-262: 259.
- M. Formentin, 'I codici greci di medicina nelle tre Venezie’, Studi Bizantini e Neogreci, 10 (1978), pp. 2, 23, 58.
- V. Nutton, 'John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen’,The Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume 13 (1987), pp. 23, 32.
- V. Boudon-Millot, Galien. Introduction générale. Sur l'ordre de ses propres livres. Sur ses propres livres. Que l'excellent médecin est aussi philosophe, Collection des Universités de France 453, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2007, p. clxxxii.
- R. Stefec, 'Anmerkungen zu einigen zypriotisch-palästinensischen Handschriften des Athosklosters Vatopedi', Νέα Ῥώμη, 10 (2013), pp. 109-137: 129.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)