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Royal MS 16 C XXV
- Record Id:
- 040-001614864
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001be
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186554633.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 C XXV
- Title:
- Aristotle, Plato, Pseudo-Plato, Diogenes Laertius
- Scope & Content:
- Aristotle, De Anima (TLG 0086.002); Plato, extracts; [Plato], Definitiones (TLG 0059.037); Diogenes Laertius, Vitae Philosophorum (TLG 0004.001), Life of Epimenides.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614864 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 C XXV : Aristotle, Plato, Pseudo-Plato, Diogenes Laertius - Contains:
- Royal MS 16 C XXV, f 1r : Scribbling in Latin, as on f 68r.
Royal MS 16 C XXV, ff 2r-52v : Aristotle, De anima (TLG 0086.002). Interlinear and marginal scholia, of Simplicius (TLG 4013.005) and Themistius…
Royal MS 16 C XXV, ff 53r-61v : Extracts from Plato. Tit. ᾽Εκ τοῦ διαλόγου οὗ ἡ ἐπιγραφὴ Τίμαιος ἡ…
Royal MS 16 C XXV, ff 62r-66r : [Plato], Definitiones (TLG 0059.037).
Royal MS 16 C XXV, f 67r : Diogenes Laertius, Vitae Philosophorum (TLG 0004.001), Life of Epimenides, inc. [᾽Ε]πιμενίδης,…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Royal MS 16 C XXV - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1317]/040-001614864
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
68 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186554633.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1495
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- c 1500
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper. (Watermark: ff 1-61, flower, similar to Briquet 6464; ff 62-68, crossbow, similar to Briquet 748).
Foliation: ff 68. Old foliation αʹ-νβʹ (ff 2-52), omitting μδʹ. One unfoliated paper leaf after f 67. Three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and four at the end.
Dimensions: 230 x 170 mm.
Ruling: 165 x 100 mm, 20 lines per page, ff 1r-50v; 170-185 x 100 mm, irregular lines, ff 51r-52v; 200 x 130 mm, 24 lines per page, ff 53r-61v; 155 x 100 mm, 25 lines per page, ff 62r-66r. B.M. binding (1969).
Binding: British Museum, 1969.
Scribe: (ff 62r-66r) Φίλιππος Ρόδιος (colophon, f 66r; Repertorium 1A, no. 373). One other hand responsible for ff 1r-61v, 67r, identified by Harlfinger 1971 p. 419 as the same scribe responsible for Vatican, Ott. gr. 372.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, South (Messina?)
Provenance:
Written in part by the scribe Philippos Rhodios, known to have worked for Constantin Láscaris in Messina: Martínez Manzano 1998, p. 71.
Adrianos Petra: ἀδριανου πετρα, f 1r.
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: Craster 1926-28 p. 98, no.3.
Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), antiquary and politician: probably owned and transferred to the Royal Library in circa 1616, together with probably Royal 16 C vii and 16 C xxiii (see Harley MS 6018, f 159v; Add MS 35213, f 34r; also Tite 1997, p. 266).
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19v.
Not in Bernard 1697.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. - Administrative Context:
- Italy, South (Messina).
- 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_XXV].
- Publications:
- E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 348).
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 440-445 (p. 440, nos 112, 115; p. 442, no.130).
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. 187.
H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28), pp. 97-100.
L. A. Post, The Vatican Plato and its Relations, Middletown 1934.
N. G. Wilson, 'A List of Plato Manuscripts', Scriptorium 16 (1962) pp. 386-395 (p. 388).
D. Harlfinger, Die Textgeschichte der Pseudo-Aristotelischen Schrift Περὶ ἀτόμων γραμμῶν, Amsterdam 1971, p. 419.
P. Moraux, Aristoteles Graecus. Die griechischen Manuskripte des Aristoteles (Peripatoi 8), Berlin 1976, pp. 445-7.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
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 (p. 266).
T. Martínez Manzano, Constantino Láscaris. Semblanza de un humanista bizantino (Nueva Roma 7), Madrid 1998, p. 71.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 239-40.
T. Dorandi, Laertiana. Capitoli sulla tradizione manoscritta e sulla storia del testo delle Vite dei filosofi di Diogene Laerzio (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 264), Berlin 2009, p. 19.
B. Vancamp, Untersuchungen zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung von Platons 'Menon' (Palingenesia 97), Stuttgart 2010, p. 78.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)