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Harley MS 5693

Record Id:

040-001613799

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001613799

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x00037a

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5693

Title:

Homer's Iliad, and grammatical treatises

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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032-002045828
040-001613799

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Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5693 : Homer's Iliad, and grammatical treatises

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032-002045828[5696]/040-001613799

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Extent:

9 items

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Paper (w.m. Hills Briquet 11901 (ff. 17, 22); Helmet PiccardWerkzeug und WaffenVI 209, 210) and (ff. 1, 1v) parchment. ff. 304. 305 x 230 (202 x 118) mm. Ruling (ff. 6-10) Leroy V 00A1, 38 lines; (ff. 13-18) 20D1, 31 lines; (ff. 23-303) 20D1n, 28 lines. Gatherings of 8, numbered (ff. 23-134) [αʹ]-ιδʹ, and (ff. 2-304) a-z, [-], [-], a-n. Title HOMERUS on right fore-edge. Lower fore-edge inscribed '6[6?]'. B.M. binding (19th cent.).

ff. 3-22, 303v added by 15th cent. hands. Scribe (f. 1) identified as Ciriaco d'Ancona (see table of contents, f. 1v).

Custodial History:

Owned by Gaspar Volaterranus, Apostolic Protonotary, 15th cent. (ex-libris and table of contents on parchment fragment (probably excised from front pastedown) pasted on verso of f. 1, now f. 1v; Fontes p.160; Omont 'Notes' p.333). Owned by Antonio Seripan

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p.288;
Porphyrii Quaestionum Homericarum ad Iliadem pertinentium reliquiae, ed. H. L. Schrader, Leipzig 1880-1882, p.357;
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review ii (1888) pp.102-104, 171-174; iii (1889) pp.149-155, 440-445 ii p.103 No.6, p.104 No.19;
W. Leaf, 'The Codex Wittianus of the Iliad', Classical Review iii (1889) pp.295-296;
A. Ludwich, De codicibus Batrachomachiae dissertatio (Index lectionum in Regia Academia Albertina per hiemem anni 1894/5), Königsberg 1894 p.5 cod. Λc;
A. Ludwich, Beiträge zur Homerischen Handschriftenkunde (Sonderabdruck aus Jahrbuch für classischen Philologie Supplementband 27), 1900 cod. E;
Homeri Ilias, ed. T. W. Allen, 3 vols, Oxford 1931 i Prol. pp.13f. (cod.Bm), 135, 262, 265;
S. A. Cengarle, 'Ps. Moschopuli Compendium de dialectis linguae Graecae', Acme: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano xxiv (1971) pp.213-292 pp.223, 237-254 (cod. H);
P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain, Leiden 1989 p.152.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

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