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Royal MS 16 C XVII
- Record Id:
- 040-001614835
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001b6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186550782.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C XVII
- Title:
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Harpocration, Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos (1389.001), and Heraclitus, Allegoriae (=Quaestiones Homericae) (TLG 1414.001), imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Harpocration, Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos (1389.001), and Heraclitus, Allegoriae (=Quaestiones Homericae) (TLG 1414.001), imperfect.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614835 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C XVII : Harpocration, Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos (1389.001), and Heraclitus, Allegoriae (=Quaestiones Homericae) (TLG… - Contains:
- Royal MS 16 C XVII, f ii : Title in Latin and πίναξ on separate pasted-down fragments
Royal MS 16 C XVII, ff 1r-78r : Harpocration, Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos (TLG 1389.001), longer form. Inc. [῎Α]βαρις…
Royal MS 16 C XVII, ff 78v-102r : Heraclitus, Allegoriae (=Quaestiones Homericae) (TLG 1414.001), Inc. [Μ]εγας ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ…
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- 032-002105724[1309]/040-001614835
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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102 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186550782.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 1* + 102. Old pagination 1-204. One unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning. Two unfoliated contemporary paper flyeaves at the end, followed by three unfoliated modern paper flyleaves.
Dimensions: 215 x 155 mm.
Ruling: 155 x 90 mm. 28 lines per page.
Binding: British Museum, 1969. Bound with Royal 16 C xvi.
Scribe: Δημήτριος Τριβώλης (Repertorium 1A, no. 103).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy?
Provenance:
Janus Lascaris (b. c. 1445, d. 1535), Greek humanist: annotations in his hand throughout. Possibly the manuscript mentioned by him in a letter to Demetrius Chalcondyles in July 1491 (Mondrian 2000, p. 420, for the letter cf. Pontani 1992 p. 380).
Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi (b. 1501, d.1550): 'Λσ No.9 della Xa', at end of πιναξ pasted onto f 1*r; 'No IXo' in the same hand, upper right of f 1*r.
Catherine de' Medici (b. 1519, d. 1589), Queen of France: no. 216 in the inventory of her Greek books in Vatican Library, Cod. Reg. lat. 1491, cf. Jackson 1999/2000, p. 108.
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614): cf. Craster 1926-28, p. 99, no.19.
Royal library mark of a seal of a ship with three masts, f 1*r.
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_XVII].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8580.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 329).
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.
Allégories d'Homère, ed. F. Buffière, Paris 1962, p. xlvi.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani. A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1972, p. 286.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
A. Pontani, 'Per la biografia, le lettere, i codici, le versioni di Giano Lascaris', in Dotti bizantini e libri greci nell'Italia del secolo XV: Atti del Convegno internazionale (Trento, 22-23 ottobre 1990), ed. M. Cortesi and E. V. Maltese, Naples 1992, pp. 363-433 (p. 390).
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 235-36.
D. F. Jackson, 'An old book list revisited: Greek manuscripts of Janus Lascaris from the library of Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi', Manuscripta 43/44 (1999/2000), pp. 77-133 (p. 108).
B. Mondrain, 'Janus Lascaris copiste et ses livres', in I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito: Atti del 5 Colloquio internazionale di paleografia greca, Cremona, 4-10 ottobre 1998, ed. G. Prato, Papyrologica Florentina 31, 3 vols, Florence 2000, I, pp. 417-426 (p. 420).
D. Speranzi, 'Michele Trivoli e Giano Lascari. Appunti su copisti e manoscritti greci tra Corfù e Firenze', Studi Slavistici 7 (2010) pp. 263-297 (esp. pp. 270-71).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)