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Add MS 22087
- Record Id:
- 032-002169471
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002169471
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x00013c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22087
- Title:
- Valerius Babrius, Mythiambi Aesopici, Babrius Fables, annotated by Demetrius Triclinius.
- Scope & Content:
- Valerius Babrius, Mythiambi Aesopici. (TLG 0614.001), to 2.123, Ὄρνιθος ἀγαθῆς ᾠὰ χρυσᾶ τικτούσης; f 43 is a 19th century addition.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002169471
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002169471
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22087 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 0949
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Parchment; paper ff 1-2, 43.
- Foliation: ff (iv) + 43 + (iv).
- Dimensions: 169 x 125 mm.
- Ruling: 126 x 90 mm; 22 lines per page.
- Binding: Full goat leather binding.
- Custodial History:
- Brought by Menas Menoides from Mount Athos, possibly from the Lavra Monastery. f 3. M. Mynas.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Mynas Menoides, 1 August 1857.
- Publications:
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- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854-1860 (London, 1875), p. 586.
- H. Omont, ‘Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum’, Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 45 (1884), p. 329 (p. 18 in the offprint, which is paginated 1-40).
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe. (Paris, 1952), p. 38.
- A. Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides (Urbana, 1957), p. 250.
- A. Dain, ‘Sur deux recueils de Babrios trouvés par Minoïde Mynas’, Bullettin de l’association Guillaume-Budé, 4 sér.,1 (1960), pp. 113-121.
- G. Zuntz, An Inquiry into the Transmission of the Plays of Euripides (Cambridge, 1965), p. 262.
- J. Vaio, ‘A New Manuscript of Babrius: Fact or Fable?’ Illinois Classical Studies 2 (1977), pp. 173-183.
- N. G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium (London 1983), p. 250.
- Babrii Mythiambi Aesopi, ed. M.J.Luzzato and A. La Penna (Leipzig, 1986), pp. xxii-xxv.
- S. Lucà, ‘Il Diodoro Siculo Neap. B.N. gr. 4* è italogreco?’, Bollettino della Badia greca di Grottaferrata 44 (1990), pp. 33-79.
- Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton (London, 1994), pp. 202-203.
- J. Vaio, The Mythiambi of Babrius. Notes on the Constitution of the Text. Spudasmata, 83 (Hildesheim Georg Olms, 2001).
- D. Speranzi, ‘Per la storia della libreria medicea privata. Giano Lascaris, Sergio Stiso di Zollino e il copista Gabriele’, Italia medioevale e umanistica 48 (2007), pp. 77-111.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Babrius, Valerius, paroemiographer, fl 2nd century