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Royal MS 16 D XII
- Record Id:
- 040-001614956
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001ea
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186560215.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 D XII
- Title:
- John Tzetzes, Eusebius, Oppian and Hermogenes
- Scope & Content:
- John Tzetzes, Eusebius, Oppian and Hermogenes. Formerly three separate volumes, now bound together.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614956 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 D XII : John Tzetzes, Eusebius, Oppian and Hermogenes - Contains:
- Royal MS 16 D XII, ff 1r-5v : I. John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, Homerica and Posthomerica, with scholia Imperfect, ending in the gloss on line 240 of…
Royal MS 16 D XII, ff 6r-36v : II. Eusebius of Caesarea, Onomasticon (TLG 2018.011), with marginal notes, partly in Latin, in the hand of…
Royal MS 16 D XII, ff 37r-272r : III. Life of Oppian, inc. Ὀππιανὸς ὁ ποιητὴς πατρὸς μὲν ἦν Ἀγησιλάου,…
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- 032-002105724[1329]/040-001614956
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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272 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186560215.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Part I
Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 5. Original pagination 3-10 (ff 2r-5v).
Dimensions: 310 x 215 mm
Ruling: 145 x 175 mm. Variable number of lines.
Scribe: Petrus Morellus/Pierre Moreau (Repertorium 1A, no. 348).
Part II
Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 31. Original pagination 1-58 (ff 6r-34v).
Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm.
Ruling: 240 x 145 mm, ff 6r-17v; 225 x 145 mm, ff 18r-36v. Mostly 33 lines per page.
Collation: Gatherings of 6 leaves, now slit: A-E, F (1 leaf only).
Part III
Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 236. Early pagination 1-99 (ff 37-87).
Dimensions: 315 x 210 mm.
Ruling: 215 x 100 mm. 20 lines per page.
Collation: Gatherings of 12 leaves: αʹ-ιʹ (ff 37-156), αʹ-εʹ (ff 157-214; εʹ lacks 2 leaves), αʹ-εʹ (ff 215-272; εʹ lacks 2 leaves).
Scribe: ᾽Ανδρέας Δαρμάριος (Repertorium 1A, no. 13).
Binding: British Museum, early 20th century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Loches?), Part I; Italy, Part III.
Provenance:
Henri Estienne (1528-1598), printer and classical scholar: possibly owned Part III, see Craster 1926-28 p. 98.
Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: Craster 1926-28 p. 98, no. 16; p. 100, no.47 (I); p. 98, no. 16 (II); p. 100, no. 45 (III, when preceded by and bound with Royal MS 16 D XIII).
Royal library mark of a seal of a ship with three masts on f 6r (i.e. the first leaf of Part II).
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19r (all separate volumes).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Administrative Context:
- France (Loches?), Part I; Italy, Part III.
- 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_XII].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8570.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 334).
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.191-192.
H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28) pp. 97-100.
O. Masson, 'Notes sur quelques manuscrits de Jean Tzetzes', Emerita 19 (1951) p. 112.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981
J.-M. Olivier and M.-A. Monégier du Sorbier, 'Morelliana. Recherches sur la vie et l'oeuvre philologique d'un humaniste méconnu: Pierre Moreau de Loches', Revue d'histoire des textes 17 (1987) pp. 174-181.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 246-47.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)