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Harley MS 5743

Record Id:

040-001613925

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001613925

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x0003be

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5743

Title:

Sophocles and Euripides

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001613925

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5743 : Sophocles and Euripides

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5746]/040-001613925

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

9 items

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1475

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Paper. ff. i+113. 215 x 150 ( 165 x 90 (ff. 1-61); 170 x 85 (ff. 63-113)) mm. Ruling Leroy 10D1n, 24 lines (ff. 1-61), 25 lines (ff. 63-99), 26 lines (ff. 99v-113). 18th cent. glazed calf binding.

Scribe identified as Johannes Franciscus Burana (Repertorium I 161).

Custodial History:

Acquired from Antonio de Blanchis, of Verona, by Louis Bourguet, of Nîmes, 4 Oct. 1702 (ff. 1, 113; Fontes pp.73, 78). Acquired for the Harleian Library, 1 May 1729 (f. i).

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p.292;
F. A. Paley, Euripides, with an English Commentary, 3 vols, London 1857-1860 iii p.xxix, facsimiles of parts of ff. 71, 99 opp. p.xxix;
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.172 No.41, p.173 No.48;
A. Turyn, 'The Sophocles Recension of Manuel Moschopoulos', Transactions of the American Philological Association lxxx (1949) pp. 94-173p.190;
A. Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides (Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 43), Urbana 1957 pp.288ff. (cod. Q).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burana, Johannes Franciscus, c 1474-before 1536