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Harley MS 5744

Record Id:

040-001780405

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780405

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00014a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5744

Title:

Aesop and Sophocles

Scope & Content:

Aesop and Sophocles

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001780405

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5744 : Aesop and Sophocles

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5747]/040-001780405

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

179 folios

Digitised Content:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5744 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1495

End Date:

1505

Date Range:

c 1500

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 179.

Dimensions: 220 x 155 (145 x 90 (ff 1-6, 15-21); 145 x 85 (ff 7-14); 150 x 90 (ff 22-26); 125 x 80 (ff 27-93); 110 x 80 (ff 93v-179)) mm.

Ruling: 25 lines (ff 1-6, 15-25), 21 lines (ff 7-14), 10 lines (ff 27-93), 9 lines (ff 93v-179).

Binding: British Museum (1967).

Decoration: Headpieces with foliate decoration in light brown or red (ff 1, 15). Initials with foliate decoration in light brown or red (ff 1, 15, 27, 97). Title partly in display capitals in light brown (f 1). Initials and rubrics in light brown.

Script: The scribe erroneously identified as Antonios Episkopopoulos (see Repertorium 1A, no. 24; Summary Catalogue 1999).

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

The scribe erroneously identified as Antonios Episkopopoulos (see Repertorium 1A, no. 24; Summary Catalogue 1999).

The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century 'Colleg. Agen. Socie. Jesu. Cat. Inscrip.' (f 1; see 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:

Eastern Mediterranean.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=harley_ms_5744].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5008&CollID=8&NStart=5744].

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III, pp. 292-293.

H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) p. 335.

E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888) p. 172, No. 40.

Corpus Fabularum Aesopicarum, I: Fabulae Aesopicae soluta oratione conscriptae, ed. A. Hausrath and H. Hunger, Leipzig 1970, i, pp. xv-xvi, No. 65.

A. Turyn, Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Sophocles (Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 36), Urbana 1952, pp. 97-98 (cod. Bb).

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. 24.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 188.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Episkopopoulos, Antonios, fl 2nd half of the 16th century