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Add MS 11887
- Record Id:
- 040-001780078
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00010d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11887
- Title:
- Epictetus, Enchiridion
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-001780078 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11887 : Epictetus, Enchiridion - Contains:
- Add MS 11887, fs001r : Epicteti Encheiridion Graece from Prince Galitzin's Collections, containing very excellent readings, often better…
Add MS 11887, ff 1-33v : Epictetus, Enchiridion (TLG 0557.002), chapters 1-61. The chapter division differs from that of TLG.
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- 032-002041530[0059]/040-001780078
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 2 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11887 (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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Paper.
- Watermark: Monogram IG on a crowned escutcheon bearing the name I. Guérard (Briquet 9458).
- Foliation: ff (iv) + 33 + (iv); there is one unpaginated folio between ff 9 and 10.
- Dimensions: 165 x 95 mm.
- Ruling: 75 x 46 mm; 15 lines per page.
- Scribal features: Initial and title in gold.
- Binding: Bound in parchment.
- Scribes: Probably Iakobos Episkopopoulos (Ἰάκωβος Ἐπισκοπόπουλος, Repertorium 1A, no. 144); cf. Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 420.
- 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.
- E. M. Thompson, 'Classical Manuscripts in the British Museum', Classical Review, 3 (1889), p. 444.
- 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. 144.
- G. Boter, The Encheiridion of Epictetus and its Three Christian Adaptations (Leiden, 1999), pp. 7-8.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)