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Add MS 38890
- Record Id:
- 032-002225660
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002225660
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000063.0x000149
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38890
- Title:
- Siege of Vienna, Ἀποκλεισμὸς τῆς Βιέννης, an account of the siege by Turks in 1683, translated from Italian into Modern Greek by Jeremias Cacavelas
- Scope & Content:
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Siege of Vienna, Ἀποκλεισμὸς τῆς Βιέννης, an account of the siege by Turks in 1683, translated from Italian into Modern Greek by Jeremias Cacavelas.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002225660
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002225660
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 54 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_38890 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Modern
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1686
- End Date:
- 1686
- Date Range:
- 1686
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff v + 54. f i is the paste-down on the inside upper board. In addition, nine unfoliated contemporary paper leaves at the end of the manuscript.
Dimensions: 295 x 90 mm.
Ruling: 90 x 125 mm.
Binding: Contemporary binding of morocco, re-backed, with tooled panel and central lozenge.
Decoration: Flourished capitals in red, and bands of scroll-work at the top of ff 2r, and 4r. Full-page illumination in gold and colours of Emperor Leopold I, f 3v, and similar drawing of the captured banner, f 50r.
Scribe: Written by the priest Nicolas at Bucharest in December 1686: colophon, f 54v: ἐτελειώθη εἰς μπουκουρεστίῳ 1686 δεκεμβ. παρὰ Νικολάου Ἱερέως.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Wallachia (Bucharest).
Provenance:
Written by the priest Nicolas at Bucharest in December 1686: colophon, f 54v: ἐτελειώθη εἰς μπουκουρεστίῳ 1686 δεκεμβ. παρὰ Νικολάου Ἱερέως.
Translated and written at the request of Constantin Brâncoveanu (b. 1654, d. 1714), later Prince of Wallachia: ownership inscription, f 1r: "Alu Konstandin Brankovénu V[oda] Spa[tar], Skoasa de Jeremija Kakavela dasculu[l] şi egume[nul] Plavicénilo[r] dupe limba francésca pe limba grecésca şi scrisa de popa nekula: l[un]a noe[mvrie] a[nu]l αχπζ" [November 1687].
Dedicated to John Șerban Cantacuzene (b. 1640, d. 1688), Prince of Wallachia and uncle of Brâncoveanu.
Hon. Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (b. 1766, d. 1827), colonial governor and philhellene: his arms on bookplate, ff i recto, ii verso, and stencilled f iv recto; mentioned in his manuscript catalogue, Add MS 8220, f 74r, no. 16.
Richard Taylor (1781-1858), printer and naturalist: his ownership inscription, f iii recto.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased at Hodgson's sale, 25 June 1914, lot 413.
- Administrative Context:
- Wallachia (Bucharest).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_38890].
- Publications:
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F. H. Marshall, 'A Greek Manuscript Describing the Siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683', Journal of Hellenic Studies 42 (1922) pp. 16-23.
The Siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683. Translated into Greek from an Italian work published anonymously in the year of the siege by Jeremias Cacavelas, ed. by F. H. Marshall, Cambridge 1925.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1911-1915, part I, London 1925, p. 328.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 71.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)