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Royal MS 16 C XIV

Record Id:

040-001614819

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001b3

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100186547722.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 16 C XIV

Title:

Apparatus Bellicus, followed by extracts from Byzantine authors

Scope & Content:

Apparatus Bellicus, followed by works by Pseudo-Codinus, Theodore Prodromus, Nicephorus Blemmydes, and John of Damascus

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-001614819

Is part of:

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

Royal MS 16 C XIV : Apparatus Bellicus, followed by extracts from Byzantine authors

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002105724[1306]/040-001614819

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

296 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1584

End Date:

1584

Date Range:

1584

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 296.

Dimensions: 215 x 155 mm.

Ruling: 135 x 90 mm, ff 1-114, 117-296; 180 x 95 mm, ff 115-116. 13 lines per page (ff 1-114, 117-296), 33 lines per page (ff 115-116).

Collation: Gatherings of 12 leaves: i-x¹² (αʹ-ιʹ; ff 2-116, 1 unfoliated leaf), xi-xxv¹² (αʹ-ιεʹ; ff 117-296).

Binding: British Museum, 1969.

Scribe ᾽Ανδρέας Δαρμάριος (colophons, ff 114v, 219v, 296v; Repertorium 1A, no. 13).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy?

Provenance:

Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: Craster 1926-28 p. 99 no. 24; Pattison 1892 p. 36.

Ship seal, f 2r.

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:

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_XIV].

Publications:

P. Labbie, De Byzantinae historiae scriptoribus protrepticon, Paris 1648, pp. 38-39.

M. Thévenot, Mathematicorum veterum opera, Paris 1693, pp. 275-319.

E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, nos. 8581, 8582.

H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884), pp. 314-350, 584 (pp. 325, 334).

M. Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614, 2nd edn, Oxford 1892, p. 36.

T. Preger, Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum, Leipzig 1901-1907, II, p. xiii (cod. 23).

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, p.184.

H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28), pp. 97-100.

J.-R. Vieillefond, Jules Africain, Fragments des Cestes provenant de la collection des tacticiens grecs, Paris 1932, p. xliv.

A. Dain, 'Les stratégistes byzantins', Travaux et Mémoires du Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation Byzantines 2 (1967), pp. 317-392 (pp. 359-61).

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, p.197.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 234-35.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Casaubon, Isaac, classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian, 1559-1614,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121340643
Darmarios, Andreas, book trader, fl 4th quarter of the 16th century