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Egerton MS 942

Record Id:

032-002227994

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002227994

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000063.0x0001a8

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Egerton MS 942

Title:

Demosthenes, Orationes, preceded by Argumenta of Libanius

Scope & Content:

Demosthenes, Orationes, preceded by Argumenta of Libanius.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Egerton Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

246 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1490

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

1490s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff 246. Two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end.

Dimensions: 205 x 125 mm.

Ruling: 140 x 65mm, 24 lines per page.

Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.

Scribe: Δημήτριος Δαμιλᾶς, Repertorium 1A, no. 93.

Artist: Attibuted to Gherardo di Giovanni and Monte del Fora (see Garzelli 1985).

Decoration: Full border in colours and gold, with flowers, green parrots, putti, medallions, cameos, and heraldic arms in the lower border (f 1r). Headpiece in gold, red, and blue, with braided decoration (f 1r). Large historiated initial in colours and gold (f 1r). 18 large initials in colours and gold with interlace or foliate decoration (ff 7r, 13v, 21r, 30r, 42v, 50r, 65v, 80v, 86r, 92r, 98r, 107r, 115v, 125r, 132r, 140v, 148r, 169r). Writing in gold (f 1r). Initials in red with penwork decoration. Simple headpieces in red. Text and apparatus in red.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).

Provenance:

Alexander Farnese (b. 1468, d. 1549), from 1534 Pope Paul III: Farnese arms (f. 1). Made for him after 1490, according to Pernot 1981 p. 696.

Vincenzo Maria Carafa (b. 1739, d. 1814), 7th Prince of Roccella and Duke of Bruzzano: his book-plate 'Ex Libris Vinc. M. Kar.ca.st. pr. Amphiss.' with arms, and the inscription in pen 'G. Cataneo inc.' (inside upper cover).

William Pickering (b. 1796, d. 1854): immediate source of acquisition.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from William Pickering, 14 May 1842 by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection.

Administrative Context:

Italy, Central (Florence).

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_942].Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8302&CollID=28&NStart=942].

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845, London 1850, 1842, p. 105.

E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 149-55 (p. 154).

A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1929, no. 25.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, pp. 84-85.

L. Pernot, 'La collection de manuscrits grecs de la Maison Farnèse', Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome 91 (1979) pp. 457-506 (p. 461).

L. Pernot, 'Nouveaux manuscrits grecs Farnèsiens', Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome 93 (1981) pp. 695-711 (pp. 696, 701-702, 710-711).

E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.

Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, 2 vols, ed. A. Garzelli, Florence 1985, vol. 2, pl. 950.

M. R. Formentin, 'Uno scriptorium a Palazzo Farnese?', Scripta. An International Journal of Codicology and Palaeography 1 (2008) pp. 77–102.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Carafa, Vincenzo Maria, Prince of Roccella
Damilas, Demetrios, scribe, fl 1450-1500
Demosthenes, statesman and orator, 384 BC-322 BC
Farnese, Alessandro, cardinal and diplomat, 1520-1589
Libanius, rhetorician and teacher, 314-393
Pickering, William, publisher, 1796-1854