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Harley MS 5792
- Record Id:
- 040-001780426
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001780426
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00014e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5792
- Title:
- Greek-Latin Glossary.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001780426", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5792: Greek-Latin Glossary." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001780427", "parent" : "040-001780426", "text" : "Harley MS 5792, ff 1v-240v: Pseudo-Cyril, Greek-Latin Glossary. Loewe-Goetz CGL ii pp.215-483." },{ "id" : "041-001780428", "parent" : "040-001780426", "text" : "Harley MS 5792, ff 241-259v: List of Latin words together with their Greek equivalents of a different gender. Loewe-Goetz CGL ii pp.487-506." },{ "id" : "041-001780429", "parent" : "040-001780426", "text" : "Harley MS 5792, ff 260-267: Pseudo-Cicero, List of Latin synonyms, with a few Greek equivalents. Tit. ✛ Inc(ipiunt) Sinonuma [Q. Tu]llii Ciceronis…" },{ "id" : "041-001780430", "parent" : "040-001780426", "text" : "Harley MS 5792, ff 267v-268: Blank, except for heading on f 267v: ✛ INCP. glossa synonima Ciceroni." },{ "id" : "041-001780431", "parent" : "040-001780426", "text" : "Harley MS 5792, ff 268v-272: Further list of Latin synonyms. Title erased on f 268v: Incp. glossa synonima... Ciceroni." },{ "id" : "041-001780432", "parent" : "040-001780426", "text" : "Harley MS 5792, f 273: Note on the virtues and ingredients of one medicine. Latin. Tit. ✛ In N(omine) D(omi)ni de auctore fratello med(ico) quod…" },{ "id" : "041-001780433", "parent" : "040-001780426", "text" : "Harley MS 5792, ff 273v-276v: Collection of medical recipes. Latin. Tit. Incp. confectio antidotorum diuersarum. inc. Confectio Hadriani notus…" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001780426 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5792 : Greek-Latin Glossary. - Contains:
- Harley MS 5792, ff 1v-240v : Pseudo-Cyril, Greek-Latin Glossary. Loewe-Goetz CGL ii pp.215-483.
Harley MS 5792, ff 241-259v : List of Latin words together with their Greek equivalents of a different gender. Loewe-Goetz CGL ii pp.487-506.
Harley MS 5792, ff 260-267 : Pseudo-Cicero, List of Latin synonyms, with a few Greek equivalents. Tit. ✛ Inc(ipiunt) Sinonuma [Q. Tu]llii…
Harley MS 5792, ff 267v-268 : Blank, except for heading on f 267v: ✛ INCP. glossa synonima Ciceroni.
Harley MS 5792, ff 268v-272 : Further list of Latin synonyms. Title erased on f 268v: Incp. glossa synonima... Ciceroni.
Harley MS 5792, f 273 : Note on the virtues and ingredients of one medicine. Latin. Tit. ✛ In N(omine) D(omi)ni de auctore fratello med(ico)…
Harley MS 5792, ff 273v-276v : Collection of medical recipes. Latin. Tit. Incp. confectio antidotorum diuersarum. inc. Confectio Hadriani…
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- 032-002045828[5795]/040-001780426
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 7 items
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5792 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0700
- End Date:
- 0799
- Date Range:
- 8th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Parchment. ff 277. 295 x 210 (255 x 165) mm. Ruling Leroy 10A2n and 20A2 (ff 1-259); 20A3 (ff 260-272), 34-38 lines. Binding of red morocco gilt in 'Harleian' style by Chapman (Nixon 'Harleian bindings' p.181).
- Custodial History:
- Owned by Nicholas of Cues (ex-libris, f 1; Fontes p.120) and given by him to the Hospital of St Nicholas, Cues (Fontes p.121). Purchased for the Harleian Library from Nathaniel Noel, 18 Jan. 1723/4 (f 1; Diary p.253 n.6; Fontes p.254). Edward Harley beque
- Publications:
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- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III p.297.
- Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Series I and II, ed. E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner, London 1873-1901, II 25.
- E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner, Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part I, Greek Manuscripts, London 1881, pp.10-13.
- H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes xlv (1884) pp.330, 332.
- G. Loewe and G. Goetz, Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum, Leipzig 1888-1923, ii pp.xx, xxvii, xxxii.
- W. M. Lindsay, 'The Cyrillus Glossary and Others', Classical Review xxxi (1917) pp.188-193.
- P. Lehmann, Mitteilungen aus Handschriften ii (Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften philos.-hist. Abt. Heft 2) Munich 1930, p.27.
- E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, Oxford 1934-1971, II 203.
- C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley 1715-1726, 2 vols, London 1966, p.253 n.6.
- 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, pp.120-1, 254.
- J. J. Contreni, The Cathedral School of Laon from 850-930. Its Manuscripts and Masters (MBMRF xxix) Munich 1978, pp.57, 70.
- W. Berschin, Griechisch-lateinisches Mittelalter, von Hieronymus zu Nikolaus von Kues, Bern 1980, pp.43, 169, 315.
- A. C. Dionisotti, 'Greek Grammars and Dictionaries in Carolingian Europe', in The Sacred Nectar of the Greeks: The Study of Greek in the West in the Early Middle Ages, ed. M. W. Herren, London 1988, pp.12, 16.
- P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain, Leiden 1989, p.152.
- M. Archibald, M. Brown and L. Webster, 'Heirs of Rome: The Shaping of Britain AD 400-900', in The Tranformation of the Roman World, ed. L. Webster and M. P. Brown, London 1997, p.243 No.130.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)