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Royal MS 16 D IX
- Record Id:
- 040-001614934
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001c7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 D IX
- Title:
- Greek prose translation by Maximus Planudes of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r-263v: Greek prose translation by Maximus Planudes of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Inc. Τὰς εἰς καινὰ σώματα μεταμειφθείσας. Apparently copied from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS grec 2848.
ff. 264r-328v: Greek prose translation by Maximus Planudes of Ovid's Heroides. Inc. Τὸ δέ σοι χαίρειν ἡ σὴ Πηνελόπη.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614934 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 D IX : Greek prose translation by Maximus Planudes of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1326]/040-001614934
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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328 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1616
- End Date:
- 1616
- Date Range:
- Jan 1616-Feb 1616
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 200 (Text Space: 230-240 x 110) mm.
Foliation: ff. 2* + 328.
Ruling: 1 column, 27-37 lines.
Binding: British Library binding (1991).
Script: Copied by Peter Goldman of Dundee (colophon, f. 263v), as in Royal 16 D vii, Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.4.41 part 1 (dated Oxford, 1613) and Leiden, Vossius MSS misc. 3, ff. 7r-14v, and misc. 31. Additions by Patrick Young (title, f. 264r; last four lines of text, f. 328v).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
Royal library mark of a seal of a ship with three masts, f. 1*. Royal Catalogue of 1666, f. 19v. CMA 8588.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Publications:
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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, p. 190.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 244-245.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)