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Harley MS 5662
- Record Id:
- 040-001780349
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001780349
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000144
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5662
- Title:
- Tzetzes and Dionysius Periegetes
- Scope & Content:
- Tzetzes and Dionysius Periegetes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001780349", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5662: Tzetzes and Dionysius Periegetes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001780350", "parent" : "040-001780349", "text" : "Harley MS 5662, ff 1-14v: Ioannes Tzetzes, Antehomerica." },{ "id" : "041-001780351", "parent" : "040-001780349", "text" : "Harley MS 5662, ff 14v-30v: Ioannes Tzetzes, Homerica." },{ "id" : "041-001780352", "parent" : "040-001780349", "text" : "Harley MS 5662, ff 30v-56v: Ioannes Tzetzes, Posthomerica." },{ "id" : "041-001780353", "parent" : "040-001780349", "text" : "Harley MS 5662, ff 57-96v: Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis description (TLG 0084.001). Imperfect, lacking lines 375, 817. Acrostichs (ff 60v-61, 74-74v)." },{ "id" : "041-001780354", "parent" : "040-001780349", "text" : "Harley MS 5662, ff 97-100: Περὶ ἀνέμων καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν πνευμάτων. inc. Διττῆς οὔσης τῆς…" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001780349 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5662 : Tzetzes and Dionysius Periegetes - Contains:
- Harley MS 5662, ff 1-14v : Ioannes Tzetzes, Antehomerica.
Harley MS 5662, ff 14v-30v : Ioannes Tzetzes, Homerica.
Harley MS 5662, ff 30v-56v : Ioannes Tzetzes, Posthomerica.
Harley MS 5662, ff 57-96v : Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis description (TLG 0084.001). Imperfect, lacking lines 375, 817. Acrostichs (ff 60v-61, 74-74v).
Harley MS 5662, ff 97-100 : Περὶ ἀνέμων καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν πνευμάτων. inc. Διττῆς οὔσης τῆς…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 5662 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5665]/040-001780349
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
102 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5662 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1493
- End Date:
- 1493
- Date Range:
- 1493
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (w.m. Bird cf. Briquet 12202-12205).
Foliation: ff 102.
Dimensions: 236 x 170 (165 x 102) mm.
Ruling: Leroy D 24D1, 15 lines (ff 1-96v), 26-27 lines (ff 97-100).
Binding: British Museum, half black leather (1933).
Scribe: (ff 97-100v; marginal annotations, ff 1-96) Leon Chalkeopoulos (Λέων Χαλκιόπουλος, Repertorium 1A, no. 237) in Messina (f 100v)
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, S. (Messina?)
Provenance:
Scribe (ff 97-100v; marginal annotations, ff 1-96) Leon Chalkeopoulos (Λέων Χαλκιόπουλος, Repertorium 1A, no 237) in Messina (f 100v).
Owned by the Jesuit College, Agen (f 1; Fontes p.47).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, S. (Messina?)
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=harley_ms_5662].
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III, p. 285.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) p. 343.
R. Devréesse, Les manuscrits grecs de l'Italie méridionale, Histoire, classement, paléographie (Studi e Testi 183), Vatican City 1955, p. 49 n.9.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1972, p. 47.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien, (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna, 1981, No. 237.
T. Martinez Manzano, Konstantinos Laskaris. Humanist, Philologe, Lehrer, Kopist (Meletemata 4), Hamburg 1994, pp. 301, 302.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 161.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)