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Record Id:

032-002168894

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032-002168894

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 16409

Title:

Planudean Anthology

Scope & Content:

Planudean Anthology, including: Paul Silentiary's poem in hemimabs on the Pythian Baths. Euclid's geometrical enigma Mule and Ass, and Theon of Alexandria's verses on the Seven Planets and on Ptolemy. Hermes Trismegistus on Earthquakes. Epigrams omitted in the first four books of the Planudean Anthology.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

16th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 105; 13 quaternions from f 2 to f 105, signed Α to ΙΓ΄ on the top right corner of each first recto; there is also another set of quire-signatures running from ΚΑ' (f 2) to ΛΓ' (f 105), suggesting that originally this codex comprised twenty quires.
Dimensions: 286 x 206 mm.
Ruling: usually 206 x 162 mm; in two columns, 37 lines per column.
Scribal features: There are various marginal notes, almost always in red, giving information about authorship, the contents of the epigrams etc.
Binding: 19th century binding.
Scribes: The hand belongs to a professional scribe from Planudes' circle, similar to the one that copied Paris gr. 2744, and possibly also Paris gr. 2562.

Custodial History:

Owned by L. M. Rezzi, collector and sometime librarian of the Barberini and Corsini Libraries in Rome.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Messrs Payne and Foss, 7 January 1847.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1846-1847 (London, 1864), pp. 201-202.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), pp. 25-26.
D. C. C. Young, 'A codicological inventory of Theognis manuscripts: with some remarks on Janus Lascaris' contamination and the Aldine Editio Princeps', Scriptorium, 7 (1953), pp. 3-36, esp. no. 7.
D. C. C. Young, 'On Planudes' edition of Theognis and a neglected apograph of the Anthologia Planudea', La Parola del passato, 42 (1955), pp. 197-214.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)