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Royal MS 16 C XVI
- Record Id:
- 040-001614831
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001b5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186550418.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C XVI
- Title:
- Artemidorus Capito and Hippocrates
- Scope & Content:
- Artemidorus Capito, De urinis, and Hippocrates, Prognosticon, preceded by medical notes, mostly in Latin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614831 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C XVI : Artemidorus Capito and Hippocrates - Contains:
- Royal MS 16 C XVI, ff 1r-7v : Medical notes, mostly in Latin
Royal MS 16 C XVI, ff 8r-47r : Artemidorus Capito, De urinis, inc. ᾽Εὰν ἐπὶ τῆς ἐπιφανείας τοῦ χύματος…
Royal MS 16 C XVI, ff 48r-81r : Hippocrates, Prognosticon (TLG 0627.003), inc. Τὸν ἰατρὸν δοκεῖ μοι ἄριστον…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Royal MS 16 C XVI - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1308]/040-001614831
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
81 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186550418.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 81. Old pagination 1-84, lacking p. 10 after f 7 (pp. 5, 7 are unfoliated).
Dimensions: 210 x 165 mm.
Ruling: 140 x 90 mm. Variable number of lines.
Binding: British Museum (1969), bound with Royal MS 16 C XVII.
Script: ff 1r-7v written by the same hand as that responsible for the interlinear and marginal notes of ff 8r-81r.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany?
Provenance:
Friedrich Sylburg (b. 1536, d. 1596), of Wetterau in Hesse: 'FSVH' inscribed in a circle, f 1r.
Marquardt Freher (d. 1614): signature and his pressmark 'No. 32', f 1r.
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: Craster p. 98, no. 4.
Royal library mark of a seal of a ship with three masts, f 1r.
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 18v.
CMA 8551.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Administrative Context:
- Germany?
- 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_XVI].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8551.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 327).
H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, I: Hippokrates und Galenos (AKPAW philos.-hist. Klasse 3), Berlin 1905, p. 5.
H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, II: Die übrigen griechischen Ärzte usfer Hippokrates und Galenos (AKPAW philos.-hist. Klasse 1), Berlin 1906, p. 19.
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. 185.
H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28) pp. 97-100 (p. 98 no. 4).
B. Alexanderson, Die Hippokratische Schrift Prognostikon. Überlieferung und Text (SGLG 17), Göteborg, 1963, pp. 75-76, 101-102.
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. 203.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 235.
- 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
Freher, Marquardt, Professor of Law at Heidelberg
Sylburg, Friedrich, of Wetterau in Hesse