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Royal MS 16 C IV Part 2
- Record Id:
- 040-001614775
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000189
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C IV Part 2
- Title:
- John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, in a Latin verse translation
- Scope & Content:
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Latin verse translation of Tzetzes' Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica and scholia, with verse arguments preceding each work, ff 1r-88r. Followed by:
f 88v, An extract from the letter of Jean Perrelle prefixed to his 1535 edition of Theodorus Gaza, De mensibus.
ff 90r-93v, Agathemerus, Geographiae informatio (TLG 0090.001), with a parallel Latin translation by Petrus Morellus and extensive scholia, imperfect, expl. 9.10, καί Ἰόνιον καὶ Ἀδρίαν.
f 94r, Latin notes on ancient geography.
ff 94v-95r, Numerical references to epitaphs, 'ex libro iii', cap. 1-33.
ff 96r-97r, Verses in Latin (against the Huguenots) and French (an acrostic in Hierome de Marnef, the printer, dated 19 August 1579).
f 97v, Epigram on Agathemerus, with Latin translation, by Petrus Morellus.
f 98r, Draft od dedication in elegiac couplets of Morellus' translation of Tzetzes to Frédéric Morel.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614775 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C IV Part 2 : John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, in a Latin verse translation - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1296]/040-001614775
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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98 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_C_IV_Part_2 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1565
- End Date:
- 1579
- Date Range:
- 1565-1579
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 98.
Dimensions: 155 x 115 mm.
Ruling: 130 x 85-100 mm. 1 column (except ff 90r-93v where the text is written in 2 columns).
Binding: British Museum, 1965.
Scribe: Petrus Morellus (Repertorium 1A, 348).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Loches), colophon, f 88r: Ioan. Tzetzae Posthomericorum finis. cuius interpretationem absolvi 5 Cal. Iul. 1565 in gymnasio Lochibellilocensi.
Provenance:
Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614): Craster 1926-28 p. 100, no. 47.
Ship seal, f 1r.
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19r.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Administrative Context:
- France (Loches), colophon, f 88r: Ioan. Tzetzae Posthomericorum finis. cuius interpretationem absolvi 5 Cal. Iul. 1565 in gymnasio Lochibellilocensi.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_c_iv_Part_2].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8574.
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum, 3 vols, London 1883-1910, pp. 2-10.
Sir G. F. Warner and J. P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1921, pp. 181-2.
H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28), pp. 97-100.
O. Masson, 'Notes sur quelques manuscrits de Jean Tzetzes', Emerita 19 (1951) pp. 104-16 (p.112).
A. Diller, The Tradition of the Minor Greek Geographers, Oxford 1952, pp. 18, 49, 51, 54, 56, 57, 60.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
J.-M. Olivier and M.-A. Monégier du Sorbier, 'Morelliana. Recherches sur la vie et l'oeuvre philologique d'un humaniste méconnu: Pierre Moreau de Loches', Revue d'histoire des textes 17 (1987) pp. 73-218, esp. pp.174-181.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 229-30.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)