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Add MS 11892
- Record Id:
- 040-001780099
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000112
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186874857.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11892
- Title:
- Suda, Lexicon
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
036-002041598
040-001780099 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11892-11893 : SUIDÆ Lexicon; Grace. On paper, written in the year 1402, by Georgius Bæcophorus. From the Library of the Benedictines of…
Add MS 11892 : Suda, Lexicon - Contains:
- Add MS 11892, ff 1-296 : Suda, Lexicon (TLG 9010.001), vol. 1, from Α to Θ.
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- 032-002041530[0064]/036-002041598[0001]/040-001780099
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186874857.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1402
- End Date:
- 1402
- Date Range:
- 15 Jun 1402
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Paper.
- Watermark: 'Arc' similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam, 1968), no. 792, dated 1406.
- Foliation: ff (iii) + i + 296 + i + (iii); irregular quires as follows: ff 2-9v α; ff 10-17v β; ff 18-25v γ; ff 26-33v δ; ff 34-40v ε; ff 41-48v ς; ff 49-56v ζ; ff 57-64v η; ff 65-71v θ; ff 72-79v ι; ff 80-86v ια; ff 87-94v ιβ; ff 95-102v ιγ; ff 103-110v ιδ; ff 111-118v ιε; ff 119-126v ις; ff 127-132v ιζ; ff 133-140v ιη; ff 141-148v ιθ; ff 149-156v κ; ff 157-164v κα; ff 165-172v κβ; ff 173-180v κγ; ff 181-188v κδ; ff 189-196v κε; ff 197-204v κς; ff 205-212v κζ; ff 213-219v κη; ff 220-227v κθ; ff 228-235v λ; ff 236-243v λα; ff 244-251v λβ; ff 252-259v λγ; ff 260-267v λδ; ff 268-275v λε; ff 276-283v λς; ff 284-291v λζ; ff 292-297v, λη.
- Dimensions: 300 x 214 mm.
- Ruling: 192 x 128 mm; 30 lines per page, similar to LeRoy 20D1n.
- Binding: Full leather binding.
- Scribes: Georgios Baiophoros (Γεώργιος Βαϊοφόρος, Repertorium 1A, no. 55).
- Custodial History:
- Once part of Antonio Corbinelli's library. Bilingual title in his hand on f 1 Σούδας Suydas; 'vocabulorum' seems to have been added by another hand. From the Library of the Benedictines of St Mary at Florence. Belonged to the Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the library of Samuel Butler, 5 July 1841.
- Publications:
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- B. de Montfaucon, Paleographia Graeca (Paris, 1708), p. 76.
- 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), 327 (p. 16 in the offprint, paginated 1-40).
- J. Bidez, 'La tradition manuscrite du Lexique de Suidas', Sitzungsberichte der Königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 38 (Berlin, 1912), pp. 850-863.
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 21.
- R. Devreesse, Introduction à l'étude des manuscrits grecs (Paris, 1954), p. 317.
- E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien, 3 vols (Vienna, 1981), no. 55.
- A. Rollo, 'Titoli bilingui e la biblioteca di Manuele Crisolora', Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 95 (2002), 91-101, at p. 101.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Baiophoros, Georgios, scribe, of the Monastery of Prodromos Petra in Constantinople, fl 1st half of the 15th century
Monastery of Prodromos Petra, Constantinople, 12th century-15th century