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Royal MS 16 C XXII
- Record Id:
- 040-001614855
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001bb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186553507.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C XXII
- Title:
- Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea (TLG 0086.010), Books VIII-IX
- Scope & Content:
- Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea (TLG 0086.010), Books VIII-IX. inc. [Μ]ετὰ δὲ ταῦτα περὶ φιλίας ἕποιτ' ἂν διελθεῖν. Lacks contemporary title. Title supplied in Patrick Young's hand, f 1r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614855 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C XXII : Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea (TLG 0086.010), Books VIII-IX - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1314]/040-001614855
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
51 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186553507.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (Watermark: Coat of arms with tree on three mountains, similar to Briquet 969).
Foliation: ff 51. Contemporary pagination 1-101. Four unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and eighteen at the end.
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm.
Ruling: 140 x 110 mm. 16 lines per page.
Collation: Gatherings of 8, numbered αʹ-ηʹ (ηʹ comprises ff 49-51 and 5 unfoliated leaves). Signatures at centre of lower margin of first four leaves in each gathering.
Binding: Contemporary French binding of tooled leather of interlacing strap-work (rebacked). In the centre-pieces are an erased inscription on the upper cover and obliterated arms surmounted by a crown on the lower cover. Red morocco doublures with gilt trim and stamped in gold with the arms of George II. Gilt fore-edges.
Decoration: Large initials (ff 1r, 27r) not executed.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central.
Provenance:
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614): see Craster 1926-28, p. 98 no.2: 'De amicitia anonymi cujusdam libri duo. 4o Gilt'.
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19v.
Not listed in Bernard 1697.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Administrative Context:
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Italy, Central.
- 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_XXII].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 440-445 (p. 441, no. 125).
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;
H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28) pp. 97-100.
P. Moraux, Aristoteles Graecus. Die griechischen Manuskripte des Aristoteles (Peripatoi 8), Berlin 1976, pp. 444-5.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 238.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)