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Add MS 11728
- Record Id:
- 032-002168680
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002168680
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x0000e4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186868421.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11728
- Title:
- Polybius, Historiae
- Scope & Content:
- Polybius, Historiae
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002168680", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 11728: Polybius, Historiae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002168681", "parent" : "032-002168680", "text" : "Add MS 11728, fs001v: Titles and ownership notes in Latin." },{ "id" : "040-002168682", "parent" : "032-002168680", "text" : "Add MS 11728, ff 1-160v: Polybius, Historiae (TLG 0543.001), Books I-V." }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002168680
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 11728, fs001v : Titles and ownership notes in Latin.
Add MS 11728, ff 1-160v : Polybius, Historiae (TLG 0543.001), Books I-V.
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 items
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1416
- End Date:
- 1416
- Date Range:
- 2 Oct 1416
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Parchment.
- Foliation: ff (i) + i + 160 + i + (i).
- Dimensions: 381 x 273 mm.
- Ruling: 255 x 170 mm; 38 lines per page; pricking holes.
- Scribal features: Marginal notes and additions.
- Binding: Full leather binding.
- Scribes: Stephanos Medeias (Στέφανος <Μηδείας>, Repertorium 1A, no. 366). f 160v: ἐτελειώθη τὸ παρὸν βιβλίον χειρὶ Στεφάνου ἱερομονάχου καὶ σκευοφύλακος / τοῦ τιμίου Προδρόμου τῆς εὐλογημένης Πέτρας, μηνὶ ὀκτωβρίῳ β', ἰν(δικτιῶ)νος ι', τοῦ ,ϚϠ-/κε' ἔτους.
- Custodial History:
- Owned by the Benedictine Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Florence.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Payne and Foss, 23 May 1840.
- Publications:
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- B. de Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum (Paris, 1702), p. 365.
- B. de Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum manuscriptarum, vol. I (Paris, 1739), p. 415.
- List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1836-1840 (London, 1843), 1840, p. 8.
- The Palaeographical Society. Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Series I (London (1873-1883), plate 134.
- E. Maunde Thompson, 'Classical Manuscripts in the British Museum', Classical Review, 3 (1889), p. 151.
- G. Vitelli, 'Schellersheim e i Codici Greci di Badia'. Studi italiani di filologia classica, 1 (1893), p. 441.
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 18.
- R. Devreesse, Introduction à l'étude des manuscrits grecs (Paris, 1954), p. 317.
- J. Moore, The Manuscript Tradition of Polybius (Cambridge, 1965).
- R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400-1600 (Oxford, 1981), p. 29 (no. 105).
- E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien, 3 vols (Vienna, 1981), no. 366.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Medeias, Stephanos, fl 1st half of the 15th century
Polybius, Greek historian, c 200–118 BC