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Royal MS 16 C XVIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001614839
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001b7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186551243.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C XVIII
- Title:
- Scholia on the Greek Anthology of Planudes and Paraphrase of Aristotle's Sophistici Elenchi
- Scope & Content:
- Scholia on the Greek Anthology of Planudes and Paraphrase of Aristotle's Sophistici Elenchi. In two parts, bound together.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614839 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C XVIII : Scholia on the Greek Anthology of Planudes and Paraphrase of Aristotle's Sophistici Elenchi - Contains:
- Royal MS 16 C XVIII, ff 1-280v : I: Scholia on the Greek Anthology
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Royal MS 16 C XVIII - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1310]/040-001614839
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
316 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186551243.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1600
- Date Range:
- 1575-1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Part I:
Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff i + 280, plus two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end (before Part II begins).
Dimensions: 215 x 160 mm.
Ruling: 135 x 100 mm. 13 lines per page.
Collation: Gatherings numbered αʹ-ιηʹ (ff 1-210), αʹ-ςʹ (ff 211-280).
Scribe: ᾽Ανδρέας Δαρμάριος (colophon dated Venice, 1 June 1580, ff 209v-210r; Repertorium 1A, no. 13). According to the colophon the exemplar was a manuscript belonging to Cardinal Bessarion.
Part II:
Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 36. Five unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end.
Dimensions: 215 x 160 mm.
Ruling: 180 x 130 mm. 26 lines per page.
Binding: Parts I and II bound together in brown leather with the arms of George II stamped in gold at the centre of the covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (Part I written at Venice).
Provenance:
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: cf. Craster 1926-28, p. 99, no. 34 (Part II), p. 100, no. 48 (Part I).
Royal library mark of a seal of a ship with three masts, f 281r.
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19r (Part II referred to as 'Fragmentum cujusdam libri').
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, N. (Part I written at Venice).
- 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_XVIII].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, nos. 8584-86.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 334).
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.
Pseudo-Codinus, Traité des Offices, ed. J. Verpeaux, Paris 1966, pp. 43, 59, 61, 63, 66, 70, 71.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 236-37.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)