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Add MS 11891
- Record Id:
- 040-001780093
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000111
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186874753.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11891
- Title:
- Works of Pythagoras and Georgios Gemistus Plethon
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-001780093 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11891 : Works of Pythagoras and Georgios Gemistus Plethon - Contains:
- Add MS 11891, ff 2-3 : Pythagoras, Carmen aureum (TLG 0632.001).
Add MS 11891, ff 3v-4v : Georgios Gemistus Plethon, Oracula Chaldaica (TLG 3202.009).
Add MS 11891, ff 4v-9v : Georgios Gemistus Plethon, Oracula Chaldaica (TLG 3202.009), with scholia.
Add MS 11891, ff 10-11v : Extracts from Pythagoras, Carmen aureum.
Add MS 11891, ff 12r-v : Lexicographical notes which contain the names of Pleiades and various verbs for different animal sounds, as well as…
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- 032-002041530[0063]/040-001780093
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 5 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186874753.0x000001 (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 (viii) + 12 + (iii).
- Dimensions: 196 x 146 mm.
- Binding: Half goat leather binding with marbled paper and leather corners, 19th century.
- Scribes: Perhaps two scribes.
- 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. 16.
- H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 45 (1884), p. 326 (p. 15 in the offprint, which is paginated 1-40).
- E. M. Thompson, 'Classical Manuscripts in the British Museum', Classical Review, 3 (1889), p. 440.
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 21.
- B. Tambrun-Krasker, Oracles Chaldaïques. Recension de Georges Gémiste Pléthon, Corpus philosophorum Medii Aevi. Philosophi Byzantini, 7 (Athens, Paris and Brussels, 1995), pp. 1-22.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)