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Royal MS 16 C XXIV
- Record Id:
- 040-001614862
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001bd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C XXIV
- Title:
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae (TLG 0008.001)
- Scope & Content:
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae (TLG 0008.001), with glosses, inc. Στελέων [sic] αφανίδας σικύους τέτταρας (3.4.12). The first few leaves are damaged by fire.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614862 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C XXIV : Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae (TLG 0008.001) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1316]/040-001614862
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
345 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_C_XXIV (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- 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.
Foliation: ff 345. Four unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and four at the end.
230 x 165 mm.
Ruling: 175 x 95 mm. 32 lines per page.
Binding: British Museum, 1969.
Decoration: Coloured headpieces and initials at the beginning of each book.
Scribe: Identified as Ζαχαρίας Καλλιέργης (Repertorium 1A 119), though according to Chatzopoulou 2012, p. 23, n. 84, the MS written in part by an anonymous collaborator, possibly his son Nicholas.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (Venice?)
Provenance:
André Hurault (d.1607), sieur de Maisse: acquired from him by Isaac Casaubon before 1600 (see the preface to Casaubon's Animadversiones in Athenaei Dipnosophistas, Leiden 1600; Craster 1926-28 p. 98 No.5).
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian.
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, N. (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_XXIV].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8566.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 440-445 (p. 445, no. 156).
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, pp. 186-87.
W. G. Arnott, 'A Note on the Two Manuscripts of Athenaeus' Dipnosophistae in the British Museum', Scriptorium 18 (1964) pp. 269-70.
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, p. 239.
I. de Conihout, 'Jean et André Hurault: Deux frères ambassadeurs à Venise et acquéreurs de livres du cardinal Grimani', Italique 10 (2007) pp. 107-48 (p. 137).
V. Chatzopoulou, 'L'étude de la production manuscrite d'un copiste de la Renaissance au service de l'histoire des textes: le cas du Crétois Zacharie Calliergis', Revue d'histoire des textes 7 (2012) pp. 1-36 (p. 23, n. 84).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)