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Add MS 11886
- Record Id:
- 040-001780068
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00010c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11886
- Title:
- Aratus, Phaenomena
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-001780068 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11886 : Aratus, Phaenomena - Contains:
- Add MS 11886, ff 1-49 : Aratus, Phaenomena (TLG 0653.001), with marginal scholia by Theon.
Add MS 11886, ff 50-51 : Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Vita Arati (TLG 4161.005).
Add MS 11886, ff 51-59v : Hipparchus, In Arati et Eudoxi phaenomena commentariorum libri iii (TLG 1431.003), iii, 3-5.23.
Add MS 11886, f 60v : Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, De zodiaco (TLG 4161.008) 529.10.
Add MS 11886, ff 61-64 : Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Proemium in Arati phaenomena (TLG 4161.013).
Add MS 11886, ff 64-67 : Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Excerpta varia de phaenomenis Arati (TLG 4161.010).
Add MS 11886, ff 67-68v : Adamantius Judaeus, De ventis (TLG 0731.002): Ἀδαμαντίου σοφιστοῦ περὶ ἀνέμων.
Add MS 11886, ff 69-70v : Περὶ τῶν κλιμάτων τῆς γῆς ἐν οἷς συμβαίνει αὔξησις καὶ…
Add MS 11886, ff 71v-77v : Ἐκ τῶν Ἀχιλλέως πρὸς εἰσαγωγὴν.
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- 032-002041530[0058]/040-001780068
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 9 items
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Parchment.
- Foliation: ff (iv) + 77 + (iv).
- Dimensions: 242 x 152 mm.
- Ruling: 185 x 120 mm; 38 lines per page.
- Scribal features: The Medici family arms are found in the illuminated border on the first page.
- Binding: Full purple goat leather binding ('alla greca'); wooden boards; evidence of lost fastening, four metal pins mark on the grooved edges of the front board and remaining of removed double laced leather straps on the back board.
- Scribes: Copied in Italy for a member of the House of Medici by Demetrios Damilas (Δημήτριος Δαμιλᾶς, Repertorium 1A, no. 93).
- Custodial History:
- Belonged to the Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., bishop of Lichfield (d. 1839).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the library of Samuel Butler, 5 July 1841.
- Publications:
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- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1841-1845 (London, 1850), 1841, p. 15.
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 20.
- E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien, 3 vols (Vienna, 1981), no. 93.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)