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Arundel MS 550
- Record Id:
- 040-001614660
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x00014f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192100952.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 550
- Title:
- Notebook of Johannes Cuno
- Scope & Content:
- Notebook of Johannes Cuno, containing a number of extracts from Greek and Latin authors, notes on grammar and metre, and other items.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-001614660 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 550 : Notebook of Johannes Cuno - Contains:
- Arundel MS 550, ff 1r-15v : Extracts from [Ammonius], De adfinium vocabulorum differentia (TLG 0708.001).
Arundel MS 550, ff 16r-v : 'Secuntur vocabula a latino in grecum assumpta partim, pro maiori autem parte a grecis in latinum sumpta'. inc.…
Arundel MS 550, ff 17r-24v : Extracts from Theodore Gazes, Introductio grammatica. Latin and Greek. inc. Κοινὰ τῶν…
Arundel MS 550, ff 25r-26r : Commentary on Plutarch, De garrulitate (TLG 0007.101). Latin and Greek. Inc. Commentarium illud in duas partes dividitur.
Arundel MS 550, ff 26v, 29r-30v : 'Vocabula disponenda in lexicum tuum'. Latin and Greek. inc. ῾Ηβηδὸν, cum omni etate. Lucia[nus]…
Arundel MS 550, ff 27r-28v : Tabulated notes on metre. Latin and Greek.
Arundel MS 550, ff 31r-40v : Commentary on Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur (TLG 0007.070). Latin and Greek. Included are…
Arundel MS 550, ff 41r-83v : Latin notes with extracts from Greek and Latin authors, including Philostratus, Lucian, Aeschines, Cicero and…
Arundel MS 550, f 84r : Three Greek and two Latin epitaphs on Antonius Fracancianus dated Pavia 1506. Inscribed in a second hand 'hec supra…
Arundel MS 550, f 84v : Extract from Theocritus (21.1-3) with Latin translation in a third hand. Followed by an extract from the New Testament…
Arundel MS 550, ff 85r-95v : Greek words and phrases with Latin versions, in the third hand. Ends with Latin note in Cuno's hand.
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- 032-002039280[0551]/040-001614660
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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95 folios
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1501
- End Date:
- 1508
- Date Range:
- c 1506-1508
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff i + 95. f i is a book-plate pasted onto the inside front cover.
Dimensions: 165 x 105 mm.
Binding: British Museum, brown calf.
Scribes: Mostly written by Johannes Cuno (Repertorium 1A, no. 167). ff 74v-75r in the hand of Marco Musuro (Repertorium 1A, no. 265). At least two other hands can be distinguished on ff 84r-95v.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (Padua).
Provenance:
Johannes Cuno (b. 1463, d. 1513), Dominican friar and humanist: the dated material is from the period when Cuno was known to have been studying in Padua with Marco Musuro.
Probably purchased with the Pirckheimer library from Hanns Hieronymus Imhoff by Thomas Howard.
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f 1v); its book-plate with the pencil inscription ‘XIII.2.3’ (f i).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, N. (Padua).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_550].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part I, The Arundel Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 168.
Ammonii qui dicitur liber de adfinium vocabularum differentia, ed. K. Nickau, Leipzig 1966, p. xiii (cod. D).
W. Bühler, 'Zur Überlieferung des Lexikons des Ammonios', Hermes 100 (1972) 531-50 (p. 532).
P. Canart, 'Notes sur quelques manuscrits grecs des bibliothèques de Pologne', in Serta Turyniana: Studies in Greek Literature and Palaeography in honor of Alexander Turyn, ed. J. L. Heller with J. K. Newman, Urbana 1974, pp. 564-608 (p. 573).
M. Sicherl, Johannes Cuno, Ein Wegbereiter des Griechischen in Deutchland. Ein biographisch-kodikologische Studie (Studien zum Fortwirken der Antike 9), Heidlelberg 1978, passim (esp. pp. 59-64).
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981, no. 167, 265.
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, pp. 131-132.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 25-26.
E. Russell, 'Two Greek excerpts by Johannes Cuno (1463-1513) in London Arundel 550', Renaissance Studies 24 (2010), 472-81.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)