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Royal MS 16 D XVIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001615002
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0001f0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 D XVIII
- Title:
- Eustathius Macrembolites, Achilles Tatius, and Pseudo-Eustathius Antiochenus
- Scope & Content:
- Eustathius Macrembolites, Hysmene et Hysmenias; Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon; and [Eustathius Antiochenus], Commentarius in hexaemeron. The works are from three separate manuscripts, bound together at some point after 1697. All three items contain annotations by Patrick Young, and the first two also contain notes by Isaac Casaubon.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-001615002 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 D XVIII : Eustathius Macrembolites, Achilles Tatius, and Pseudo-Eustathius Antiochenus - Contains:
- Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 1r-59r : I. Eustathius Macrembolites, Hysmene et Hysmenias (TLG 3072.002). Marginal notes by Isaac Casaubon and corrections…
Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 60r-127v : II. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon (TLG 0532.001), with marginal glosses by Henri Estienne, notes by…
Royal MS 16 D XVIII, ff 128r-149v : III. [Eustathius Antiochenus], Commentarius in hexaemeron (TLG 4117.022; PG 18.708; CPG 3393). Imperfect,…
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- 032-002105724[1335]/040-001615002
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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149 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_XVIII (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 59 (Early pagination 1-117); ff 168 (Early pagination 1-136); ff 22.
Dimensions: 335 x 240 mm (ff 1-58); 235 x 210 mm (f 59); 340 x 255 mm (ff 60-149).
Ruling: 225 x 135 mm (ff 1-58); 110 x 135 mm (f 59); 220 x 125 mm (ff 60-127); 220 x 130 mm (ff 128-149). 30 lines per page throughout.
Collation: (Only in Part I). Gatherings mostly of 8 leaves: αʹ (ff 1-7, 9), βʹ-ςʹ (ff 10-47), ζʹ (ff 48-53), ηʹ (ff 54-58, 8, 59). f 8 previously misbound.
Binding: Now bound together in a British Museum binding (1955).
Scribes: (f 57v, marginalia ff 1-59) Arnoldus Arlenius (Repertorium 1A, no. 28). (ff 126v-127v) Bartholomaeus Zanettus (Repertorium 1A, no. 31).
- Custodial History:
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Part I
Origin: Italy, N.
Provenance:
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: at that time bound with Palladius's De Gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus, cf. Craster p. 98, no. 17. A transcript of Palladius's text, which was made by Patrick Young from this MS, is Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.8.22, ff 113-138.
'N 1090 taxd...', lower margin f 1r.
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19v (separate volume lacking Palladius's text).
Not in CMA.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
Part II
Origin: Italy, N.
Provenance:
Henri Estienne (b. c. 1528, d. 1598), printer and classical scholar: cf. Craster p. 98.
Isaac Casaubon (b, 1559, d. 1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian: cf. Craster p. 98, no. 1.
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19v (separate volume).
CMA 8564.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.#
Part III
Origin: Italy, N.
Provenance:
Late 16th century title (f 128) attributing the text to Epiphanius, possibly in the hand of Jacques Bongars (cf. Royal 16 D xvi, f 2r).
Isaac Casaubon (b. 1559, d. 1614): probably owned by him, when bound with a commentary on Aristotle's Parva Naturalia (see Craster p. 98, no. 15).
Royal Catalogue of 1666, f 19r.
CMA 8565.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, N.
- 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_XVIII].
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697.
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. 194.
H. H. E. Craster, 'Casaubon's Greek MSS.', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-28) pp. 97-100 (p. 98, no. 15 and 17).
H. Dörrie, De Longi Achillis Tatii Heliodori Memoria, Göttingen 1935, esp. pp. 5-6.
Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, ed. E. Vilborg (SGLG I), Stockholm 1955, esp. pp. xix-xx, xlvii-lvii, lxxv.
A. Cataldi Palau, 'La tradition manuscrite d'Eustathe Makrembolites' Revue d'histoire des textes 10 (1980-1981) pp. 77, 91-94, 96, 99, 113.
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. 28, 31.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 250-51.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)