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Add MS 11889
- Record Id:
- 040-001780085
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00010f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11889
- Title:
- Philostratus, Imagines; Nicolaus, Progymnasmata; Aphthonius, Progymnasmata
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-001780085 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11889 : Philostratus, Imagines; Nicolaus, Progymnasmata; Aphthonius, Progymnasmata - Contains:
- Add MS 11889, f 1 : Title in Latin.
Add MS 11889, ff 2-28 : Philostratus, Imagines (TLG 1600.001), to book 1, chapter 10, with anonymous scholia.
Add MS 11889, ff 30r-v : Nicolaus, Progymnasmata (TLG 2904.001), to 6.7, with anonymous scholia.
Add MS 11889, ff 31-59v : Aphthonius, Progymnasmata (TLG 4100.001), with scholia.
Add MS 11889, ff 52r-v : Nicolaus, Progymnasmata (TLG 2904.003).
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- 032-002041530[0061]/040-001780085
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 5 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11889 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Paper.
- Foliation: ff (iii) + 59 + (ii).
- Dimensions: 220 x 190 mm; 19-24 lines per page.
- Ruling: 145 x 89 mm (ff 2-28); 155 x 59 mm and 155 x 55 mm, in two columns (ff 29-31v); 166 x 110 mm (ff 32-59v).
- Scribal features: The marginal scholia are often in two columns.
- Binding: Full brown calf leather binding, 19th century.
- Custodial History:
- Armorial bookplate of the Hon. Frederic North, later 5th Earl of Guilford. 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. 16.
- J. Felten, (ed.), Nicolai Progymnasmata in Rhetores Graeci, vol. xi (Leipzig, 1913), pp. iii-vii, esp. pp. v-vi.
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 21.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)