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Royal MS 16 D XI

Record Id:

040-001614938

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001e9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 16 D XI

Title:

St Gregory of Nyssa, selected works

Scope & Content:

St Gregory of Nyssa, selected works.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-001614938

Is part of:

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

Royal MS 16 D XI : St Gregory of Nyssa, selected works

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Hierarchy:

032-002105724[1328]/040-001614938

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

371 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1550

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

2nd half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 1* + 371.

Dimensions: 310 x 205 mm.

Ruling: 205 x 110 mm, ff 1r-178v; 215 x 120 mm, ff 179r-186v, 190r-266v; 230-250 x 130 mm, ff 187r-189v; 200 x 120 mm, ff 267r-371v. 26 lines (ff 1r-186v, 190r-242v), 34 lines (ff 187r, 187v), 39 lines (ff 188r, 189v), 45 lines (ff 188v, 189r), 29 lines (ff 243r-266v), 24 lines (ff 267r-347v), 28 lines (f 348r), 27 lines (ff 348v-371v).

Collation: Gatherings of 8 leaves, except oδʹ (6), οηʹ (12): ξζʹ-πηʹ (ff 1-178), μγʹ-ξςʹ (ff 179-371).

Binding: British Library, 1991.

Scribes: (title, f 267r) ᾽Ανδρέας Δαρμάριος (Repertorium 1A, no. 13); (ff 1r-178v, 242r-266v, 348r-371v) Μιχαὴλ Μυροκεφαλίτης (Repertorium 1A, no. 284); (ff 267r-347v) Νικόλαος Χωνιάτης (Repertorium 1A, no. 321).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N. (Venice or Trento).

Provenance:

The work of at least three scribes, most likely produced in Venice or Trento in the 1560s.

Price: 'iiii v', f 1r.

Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: cf. Craster p. 99, no. 31.

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

Royal library mark of a seal of a ship with three masts, f 19r.

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 or Trento).

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_XI].

Publications:

E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8568.

H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 334).

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. 190-191.

H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28), pp. 97-100 (p. 99, no. 31).

Gregorii Nysseni in Canticum Canticorum, ed. H. Langerbeck, Leiden 1960, pp. xl-xlii (cod. B)

E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981, no. 13, 284, 321.

J.-M. Olivier and M.-A. Monégier du Sorbier, 'Morelliana. Recherches sur la et l'oeuvre philologique d'un humaniste méconnu: Pierre Moreau de Loches', RHT 17 (1987) pp. 118-119, 120.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 245-46.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Casaubon, Isaac, classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian, 1559-1614,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121340643
Choniates, Nikolaos, fl 1525-1600
Darmarios, Andreas, book trader, fl 4th quarter of the 16th century
Gregory, Saint, of Nyssa, c 335-c 394
Lugizos, Michael, fl 2nd half of the 16th century