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Royal MS 16 C XXI
- Record Id:
- 040-001614851
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001ba
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186552728.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C XXI
- Title:
- Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea (TLG 0086.010)
- Scope & Content:
- Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea (TLG 0086.010), with copious Latin marginal notes, ff 3r-130v. Preceded by Latin and Greek notes, with some quotations from Greek authors, ff 1r-2v, and followed by Greek notes on f 131v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614851 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C XXI : Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea (TLG 0086.010) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1313]/040-001614851
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
131 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186552728.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (Watermarks: Hand with star, similar to Briquet 10718, ff 3-43; hand with star and alphabetical symbol, similar to Briquet 11190, but with a different symbol on the hand, ff 44-131).
Foliation: ff 131. Four unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and four at the end.
Dimensions: 215 x 155 mm.
Ruling: 140 x 90 mm. 23 lines per page.
Binding: British Museum, 1969.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, S.?
Provenance:
Notes mostly by one 16th-century hand.
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: his sale-catalogue, no.186; monogram, f 131v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Administrative Context:
- France, S.?
- 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_XXI].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 6571.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 440-445 (p. 441, no. 124).
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).
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.186.
P. Moraux, Aristoteles Graecus. Die griechischen Manuskripte des Aristoteles (Peripatoi 8), Berlin 1976, pp. 443-4.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 238.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Theyer, John, Antiquarian, lawyer, c 1598-1673