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Royal MS 1 A XV

Record Id:

040-001614673

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000151

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 1 A XV

Title:

Old Testament: Proverbs, Wisdom, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon (Rahlfs 425), in Greek and Latin

Scope & Content:

Old Testament: Proverbs, Wisdom, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon (Rahlfs 425), in Greek and Latin.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-001614673

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 1 A XV : Old Testament: Proverbs, Wisdom, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon (Rahlfs 425), in Greek and Latin

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Hierarchy:

032-002105724[0015]/040-001614673

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

142 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Folation: ff 142. The old foliation, in red ink, diverges after f 126 as it foliates two blank leaves as f 127 and f 128 (126a and 126b on Digitised Manuscripts), as well as foliating the three blank endleaves. The modern pencil foliation is followed here and on Digitised Manuscripts. In addition, three unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the beginning.

Dimensions: 208 x 145 mm.

Ruling: 155 x 95 mm (ff 1r-14r, 17r-126v); 145 x 85 mm (ff 127r-142v); Leroy 10E2m, 2 columns, 30 lines per column (ff 7r-13v, 16r-126v); ruled in 1 column, 32 lines per page (ff 1r-6v), and 26 lines per page (ff 127r-142r).

Binding: Late 15th century Cretan binding of blind-stamped red leather with grooved wooden boards, two thongs and a Greek-style spine. Fore-edges decorated in ink and red wash with circles linked by an interlace pattern, visible on Digitised Manuscripts as f vii recto(fore-edge); f viii recto (upper edge); f ix recto (lower edge).

Script: Written by two hands: (1) ff 1r-126v; (2) ff 127v-142v.

Decoration: Initials, chapter numbers, running titles and pointing hands in red.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Crete.

Provenance:

Owned by the Venetian Matteo Dandalo (d.1570) (ex-libris `Danduli 137/ Ματθαίου Δανδούλου ρλζʹ', f. 1). . Marginal notes by Patrick Young (ff. 1-3v) and a collation by him with Bodleian Library, MS Laud gr.

Matteo Dandolo, Venetian ambassador in Rome d. 1570): inscribed with his name in Greek and Latin: 'Danduli 137/ Ματθαίου Δανδούλου ρλζʹ' (f 1), cf. Revilla and Andrés (1936) pp. lxviii-lxxvi.

A seal of a red ship, as in Royal 1 A IX and Royal 3 A XII (first flyleaf).

Patrick Young, (b. 1584, d.1652), librarian and scholar: collations by him (ff 7r-126v); inscribed by him: 'collatum esse hunc codicem / cum ms. Bibliothecae Bodleianae qui / fuit Archiep[iscop]i Cantuariensis' (Bodl. M.S. Laud gr. 30), insertion of two leaves (ff 14r-15r).

Royal Catalogue of 1666 (f 18v).

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean, possibly Crete.

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Publications:

E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8550.

A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen (Nachrichten der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen philol.-hist. Klasse), Berlin 1914, p. 425.

G. F. Warner and J. P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols, London 1921, I, pp 5-6.

P. A. Revilla and G. de Andrés, Catálogo de los Códices griegos de la Biblioteca de El Escorial, 3 vols, Madrid 1936-1967, I (1936), pp. lxviii-lxxvi.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 221.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Dandolo, Matteo, Venetian politician and ambassador, 1498-1570
Young, Patrick, Royal Librarian, 1584-1652

Related Material:

The manuscript contains a collation by Patrick Young of its contents with Bodleian Library, MS Laud gr. 30 (ff 7r-126v).