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Royal MS 16 D I

Record Id:

040-001614871

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001bf

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 16 D I

Title:

Works by or attributed to St Gregory of Nyssa

Scope & Content:

Works by or attributed to St Gregory of Nyssa.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-001614871

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 16 D I : Works by or attributed to St Gregory of Nyssa

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Hierarchy:

032-002105724[1318]/040-001614871

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

479 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment (except ff 1, 2).

Foliation: ff 479. Three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and four at the end.

Dimensions: 245 x 175 mm.

Ruling: 190 x 130 mm. Leroy 32C1, 40 lines per page.

Binding: British Museum, 19th century, over wooden boards.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Metrophanes Kritopoulos (b. c. 1589, d. 1639), Patriarch of Alexandria: his ownership inscription, f 1r (᾽Εκ τῶν Μητροφάνους ἱερομονάχου τοῦ Κριτοπούλου), like Cambridge, Trinity College, MSS O.3.15 and O.4.21, both from the collection of Patrick Young. Probably still owned by Metrophanes in Nov. 1622 (see note by Young in Royal MS 16 C V, f 2v).

In the Royal Library by 1626, when seen by Ussher (cf. Kemke, p. 129).

?John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: stamped on spine 'E. Coll. Theyer', but not identifiable in his sale-catalogue, and lacking his monogram.

Royal library mark of a seal of a ship with three masts, f i recto.

Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19r ('Gregorii Nysseni varia').

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_I].

Publications:

E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8576.

Patricius Junius (Patrick Young), Bibliothekar der Könige Jacob I. und Carl I. von England. Mitteilungen aus seinem Briefwechsel, ed. J. Kemke, 1898, p. 129.

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. 187-88, pl. 97 (f 200r).

Gregorii Nysseni in Canticum Canticorum, ed. H. Langerbeck, Leiden 1960, p. xxiv (cod. Λ).

H. Hörner, Auctorum incertorum, vulgo Basilii vel Gregorii Nysseni, Sermones de creatione hominis. Sermo de Paradiso, Leiden 1972, pp. cxxii-cxxiii.

E. Gamillscheg, 'Bemerkungen zu Handschriftensubskriptionen', Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 33 (1983), pp. 255-265 (p. 259).

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 240-42.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gregory, Saint, of Nyssa, c 335-c 394
Kritopoulos, Metrophanes, Patriarch of Alexandria, 1589-1639
Theyer, John, Antiquarian, lawyer, c 1598-1673
Young, Patrick, Royal Librarian, 1584-1652