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Royal MS 16 C XXIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001614857
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001bc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186553844.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C XXIII
- Title:
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Works of the Elder Philostratus
- Scope & Content:
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Philostratus, Heroicus, Imagines, and Vitae Sophistarum.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614857 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C XXIII : Works of the Elder Philostratus - Contains:
- Royal MS 16 C XXIII, f 1r : List of contents in Latin on a pasted-down fragment. Verses, inc. Gaspara qui credit graios celasse libellos.
Royal MS 16 C XXIII, ff 2r-69v : Flavius Philostratus, Heroicus (TLG 0638.002). Interlinear and marginal scholia, inc. Ποθεν. ἔκ…
Royal MS 16 C XXIII, ff 70r-139r : Philostratus the Elder, Imagines (TLG 1600.001), inc. ῞Οστις μὴ ἀσπάζεται τὴν…
Royal MS 16 C XXIII, ff 139r-204v : Philostratus, Vitae sophistarum (0638.003), preceded by (ff 139-139v) the letter to Antoninus. Letter…
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- 032-002105724[1315]/040-001614857
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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205 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186553844.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 205.
Dimensions: 228 x 150 mm.
Ruling: 160 x 85 mm. Leroy P2 20D1n. 21 lines per page (ff 2r-111v); 25 lines per page (ff 112r-204v).
Binding: British Museum, 1969.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Richard 'Dutch' Thomson (d. 1613), philologist and Church of England clergyman: acquired from him by Sir Robert Cotton (see Harley MS 6018, f 159v; 'Ro: Cotton Bruceus', f 2r), as in the case of the `Codex Galeanus', Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.3.9 (see Tite 1997, pp. 266, 289-90).
Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), antiquary and politician.
Transferred to the Royal Library c. 1616, together with probably Royal 16 C VII and 16 C XXV (see Harley 6018, f 159v; Add 35213, f 34).
Royal library mark of a seal of a ship with three masts, f 2r.
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19r.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- 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_XXIII].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8567.
C. L. Kayser, Flavii Philostrati Vitae Sophistarum, Heidelberg 1838, pp. xvii-xviii, xxiii.
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum, 3 vols, London 1883-1910, I, pp. 1-2.
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.
C. G. Tite, '"Lost or Stolen or Strayed": A Survey of Manuscripts formerly in the Cotton Library', in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector, ed. C. J. Wright, London 1997, pp. 262-306 (pp. 266, 289-90).
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 238-39.
R. Stefec, 'Zur Überlieferung und Textkritik der Sophistenviten Philostrats', Wiener Studien 123 (2010) pp. 63-93 (pp. 71, 78, 85, cod. R).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)