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Royal MS 16 C VII
- Record Id:
- 040-001614791
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x00018c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186545372.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C VII
- Title:
- Constantine Manasses, Breviarium Chronicum (TLG 3074.005), imperfect
- Scope & Content:
- Constantinus Manasses, Breviarium Chronicum (TLG 3074.005), ff 3-163, with marginal corrections (ff 3-22) in a western 16th-17th century hand which also supplied f 163. Imperfect from around line 5654, ff 137-162 having suffered progressively greater losses to the lower right. Prologue inc. ῾Η μὲν φιλόϋλος ψυχὴ ταῖς ὕλαις ἐπιχάσκει. Text inc. ῾Ο τοῦ Θεοῦ παντέλειος καὶ παντοκτίστωρ λόγος. Preceded by a fragment of a leaf of a late 14th-century Latin noted Missal, f 1r, and a 17th-century Latin title, f 2 v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614791 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C VII : Constantine Manasses, Breviarium Chronicum (TLG 3074.005), imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1299]/040-001614791
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
163 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186545372.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (except f 1, parchment).
Foliation: ff 163.
Dimensions: 185 x 135 mm.
Ruling: 150 x 90 mm, 20-22 lines per page.
Binding: British Museum, early 20th century. Title in Latin across fore-edges (cf. Royal 16 D xvii).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy?
Provenance:
Greek note relating to a remarkable birth in the Campus Martius in 1547, f 117v.
Lower margin of f 3 excised, probably to remove a mark of ownership.
Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), antiquary and politician, probably owned by him and transferred to the Royal Library c. 1616, together with Royal MS 16 C xxiii and 16 C xxv (see Tite 1997).
Ship seal, f 2r.
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:
- Italy?
- 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_VII].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8554.
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, II, pp. 182-183.
C. G. Tite, '"Lost or Stolen or Strayed": A Survey of Manuscripts formerly in the Cotton Library', in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector, ed. C. J. Wright, London 1997, pp. 262-306 (p. 266).
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 231.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)