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Kings MS 16
- Record Id:
- 040-001780474
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016915
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000152
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165170265.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 16
- Title:
- Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001), preceded by brief vitae and hypotheses
- Scope & Content:
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Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001). Each book except Book I preceded by one or two monostich summaries. Prose ὑπόθεσις at the start of Book II (f 13r) and scholia relating to Book I 331-341 (ff 7v-8r).
Preceded by two brief lives of Homer (f 1r), inc. 1. ῞Ομηρος ὁ ποιητὴς υἱὸς ἦν. κατὰ μέν τινας Μαίωνος; 2. ῞Ομηρος ὁ ποιητὴς πατρὸς μὲν ἦν Μείητος, and two prose ὑποθέσεις (f 1v), inc. 1. Οἱ θεοὶ τῆς Θέτιδος καὶ τοῦ Πηλέως γάμους ἦγον; 2. Χρύσης ἱερεὺς ᾽Απόλλωνος περιγίνεται.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
King's Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016915
040-001780474 - Is part of:
- Kings MS 1-446 : King's Manuscripts
Kings MS 16 : Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001), preceded by brief vitae and hypotheses - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016915[0015]/040-001780474
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Kings MS 1-446
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165170265.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1431
- End Date:
- 1431
- Date Range:
- 1431
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff iv + 285 (ff. i-iii and 283-285 are paper flyleaves; f. 282 is a parchment flyleaf).
Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm.
Ruling: 175 x 95 mm. Leroy 30D1q, 28 lines per page.
Collation: i-ii10 (ff iv-19); iii10+1 (ff 20-30); iv-x10 (ff 31-100); xi4 (ff 101-104); xii10 (ff 105-114); xii8 (ff 115-122); xiv-xix10 (ff 123-182); xx8 (ff 183-190); xxi-xxv10 (ff 191-240); xxvi-xxvii8 (ff 241-256); xxviii-xxix10 (ff 257-276); xxxfive (ff 277-281) without loss of text.
Binding: Gold tooled mottled brown leather binding with the monogram of George III.
Decoration: Italian illuminated initial, f 2r.
Scribe: Christopher Trapezuntios (colophon, f 281r; Repertorium 1A, no. 385).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Written by Christopher Trapezuntios in 1431 (colophon, f 281r, his ownership inscription, f 281v).
Joseph Smith (b. 1673/4?, d. 1770), book collector and patron of the arts (see Bibliotheca Smithiana 1755, p. 34); sold to King George III, along with the bulk of Smith's library and art collection, in 1762.
King George III (b. 1738, d. 1820).
Given to the British Museum by King George IV in 1823 as part of the library of King George III.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Kings_MS_16].Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=719&CollID=19&NStart=16].
- Publications:
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Bibliotheca Smithiana seu catalogus librorum Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus, Addenda, & Corrigenda in superiori Catalogo, Venice 1755, p. 34.
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, I, pl. 158.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888) pp. 102-104 (p. 103, no. 7).
W. Leaf, 'The Manuscripts of the Iliad', Journal of Philology 20 (1892) pp. 237-251 (p. 240).
Sir G. F. Warner and J. P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1921, III, p. 7.
Homeri Ilias, ed. T. W. Allen, 3 vols, Oxford 1931, I, pp. 12, 171-172.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
Frances Vivian, The Consul Smith Collection: Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor, Raphael to Canaletto, Munich 1989, p. 43 n. 96.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 219.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)