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Royal MS 16 D XVI
- Record Id:
- 040-001614997
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001ee
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186566132.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 D XVI
- Title:
- Polyaenus, Strategemata (TLG 0616.001), with marginal notes
- Scope & Content:
- Polyaenus, Strategemata (TLG 0616.001), with marginal notes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001614997 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 D XVI : Polyaenus, Strategemata (TLG 0616.001), with marginal notes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1333]/040-001614997
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
129 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186566132.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1530
- End Date:
- 1570
- Date Range:
- Mid 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 129. Three unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, one contemporary and three modern paper flyleaves at the end.
Dimensions: 330 x 230 mm.
Ruling: 225 x 130 mm. 30 lines per page.
Collation: Gatherings of 8, numbered αʹ-ιςʹ, with vertical catchwords.
Binding: British Library, 1983.
Scribe: identified as Πέτρος Καρναβάκας (Repertorium 1A, no. 346), with marginal notes by Arnoldus Arlenius (Repertorium 1A, no. 28).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (Venice).
Provenance:
Frédéric Morel: Greek name inscribed, f 95r.
Duprat family: their coloured arms, dated 1577, f 1r, cf. Omont 1884, p. 326.
Jacques Bongars (b. 1554, d. 1612): his signature and autograph note 'dono Supervillii archiatri 1603', f 2r; cf. Pattison 1892, p. 37.
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: cf. Craster 1926-28, p. 99, no. 42; see also Add MS 21095.
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19v.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, N. (Venice).
- 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_XVI].
- Publications:
- E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, no. 8590.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (pp. 325, 326).
M. Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614, 2nd edn, Oxford 1892.
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. 193.
H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28) pp. 97-100.
F. Schindler, Die Überlieferung der Strategemata des Polyainos (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften philos.-hist. Klasse 284.1), Vienna 1973, pp. 114-116, 120-122.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 250.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)