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Sloane MS 324
- Record Id:
- 040-001607883
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001442.0x0003a9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165172744.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 324
- Title:
- Michael Apostolis, Oratio ad Discipulos Suos, autograph copy
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph copy of an invective by Michael Apostolis, Greek humanist, directed against his student Emmanuel Atramyttenos and another Emmanuel (possibly, Manuel Gregoropoulos, according to Barker p. 14). Tit. Μιχαήλου Ἀποστόλη τοῦ Βυζαντίου, Λόγος κατὰ Ἐμμανουηλοῖν μιαρωτάτοιν αὐτοῦ φοιτηταῖν, τοῦ μὲν Κρητὸς Ἀτραμυττινοῦ τοῦ δὲ [ἑλίου κουρτεσίου] Εἵλωτος οἷν ὁμοίους τὸ τῆς κινήσεως μέτρον ὁ χρόνος οὐκ ἐπεῖδεν ἔς γε ἡμᾶς [post corr ex αὐτὸν]. [_ _ _] ἐξεδόθη Λουκίῳ ἐν Κρήτης Χάνδακι. Inc. Εἴ μὲν ᾔδεσαν οἱ Κρῆτες, expl. Καὶ ὡς ἱστὸν φαλαγκίων καὶ κώνωπα ἥγηνται.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-001607883 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 324 : Michael Apostolis, Oratio ad Discipulos Suos, autograph copy - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0333]/040-001607883
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165172744.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1459
- End Date:
- 1461
- Date Range:
- 1460?
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 18 + ii (i and ii are foliated but not included in the official foliation), plus sixteen unfoliated blank leaves at the end of the manuscript.
Dimensions: 200 x 145 mm.
Ruling: 135 x 85 mm, 24 lines per page.
Binding: Half brown, British Museum leather, 1970.
Scribe: Autograph of Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης (Michael Apostolius) (Repertorium 1A, no. 278). It contains many autograph corrections and alterations as well as later Latin additions.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Crete, Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Written in 1460, according to Young (1953) p. 10.
Francis Bernard (d. 1698), apothecary and physician.
Part of the great collection of manuscripts and artefacts gathered by the physician Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) and purchased at his death from his executors by the Act of Parliament which also established the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_324].
- Publications:
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S. Ayscough, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, 2 vols, London 1782, vol. 2, p. 710.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 45 (1884) p. 346 (p. 35 in the offprint, which is paginated 1-40).
H. Noiret (ed.), Lettres inédites de Michel Apostolis: publiées d'après les manuscrits du Vatican, Paris 1889, especially pp. 154-164.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 1.
D. C. Young, 'A Codicological Inventory of Theognis Manuscripts', Scriptorium 7 (1953) pp. 1-36 (p. 10).
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
N. Barker, Aldus Manutius and the development of Greek script & type in the fifteenth century, 2nd edn New York 1992, pp. 13-14.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)