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Add MS 39622
- Record Id:
- 040-002059243
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x0001b3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161509778.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39622
- Title:
- Greek Rhetorical Treatises
- Scope & Content:
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- ff. 1-99v: Alexander Mavrocordatos, Σύνοψις Ρητορικῆς τέχνης κατὰ πεῦσιν καὶ ἀπόκρισιν. Inc. Τί ἐστι ῥητορική; Ῥητορική ἐστὶ τεχνικὴ δύναμις λόγων πιθανῶν. Expl. τὴν ὀλιγοστὴν ταύτην μάθησιν δια συνεχούς ἀσκήσεως ἐπαυξῆσαι καὶ μεγίστην δείξαι τὴν ῥητορικὴν τελειότητα. Same text in Add MS 78675, ff. 82-161; Paris Bibliothèque Jean de Vernon, ICP Institut français d'études byzantines (IFEB) 7, pp. 591-596 with further parallel manuscripts. Cf. Binggeli (2014), p. 27.
- ff. 100-134: Anonymous Treatise on Rhetoric (Προοίμιον εἰς τὴν ῥητορικὴν τέχνην) Inc. Τὴν ἔμφυτον ἐπιθυμίαν καὶ ἔφεσιν, ἃς περὶ τοὺς λόγους καὶ τὰ μαθήματα φύσει ἔχουσιν ἄνθρωποι. Expl. Ἐναντίον ἐστίν, ὅπερ καὶ ἐν τῷ κοινῷ τόπῳ εἴρηται διαφέρει δὲ ἐν τῷ κοινῷ τόπῳ ἐναντίον οὐ ἐν τῇ χρείᾳ καὶ γνώμῃ ὡς ἐν ἐκείνοις δεδήλωται ἰστέον ὅτι φράσεως ταῦτα δεῖ συνεστραμ[μέν]ης καὶ ἰσχυρᾶς, ὡς ἐγγὺς ὑποθέσεως ὄντος τοῦ προγυμνάσματος. Same text in Add MS MS 18190, ff. 90-131v; Add MS 78675, ff. 1-31; Paris, BNF, Suppl. grec. 1363, ff. 33- 84 and Paris Bibliothèque Jean de Vernon, ICP Institut français d'études byzantines (IFEB) 7, pp. 365- 589. Cf. Bingelli (2014), p. 27.
- ff. 134-196v: Anonymous Treatise on "The Art of Rhetoric" in 3 books (Προοίμιον εἰς τὰς στάσεις τῆς ῥητορικῆς τέχνης.) Inc.Ἱκανῶς περὶ τῶν προγυμνασμάτων τοῦ Ἀφθονίου ἐξακριβώσαντος κατὰ τὸ ἐγχωροῦν τοῖς εἰσαγωγικοῖς. Expl. τοῖς έπιμόνως ένδιατρίβουσι τούτοις τοῖς άτελέσι τῆς κατά ρητορικήν τελειότητος έγκρατείς γενέσθαι. Same text in Add MS 78675, ff. 31v-81v; Paris, BNF, Suppl. grec. 1363, ff. 85-199v.
- f. 197r: Two notes on the structure of the world.
Decoration: Ink drawings as endpieces at the close of chapters with some decorated initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059243 - Is part of:
- Add MS 39583-39671 : PARHAM MANUSCRIPTS. These eighty-nine MSS., 39583-39671, were bequeathed, with Oriental MSS. 8729-8855, by Darea Curzon,…
Add MS 39622 : Greek Rhetorical Treatises - Hierarchy:
- 032-002059203[0040]/040-002059243
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39583-39671
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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Paper codex.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39622 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Modern
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1740
- Date Range:
- Early 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Materials: Paper.
Foliation: ff i + 197. f i is a modern papyer flyleaf at the beginning, also one modern unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and two at the end, and thirteen blank leaves after f 99.
Dimensions: 235 x 200 mm.
Ruling: 180 x 115 mm.
Binding: Modern, blind-tooled.
Scribe: Greek cursive of the 18th century. Written by Jacobus Byzas (colophon, f 99v: πέρας εἴληφεν καὶ τόδε παρ' Ἰακώβου Βύζαντος μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ὧν ἔγραψεν).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Owned by Paisius of Apameia in the late 17th century: ownership inscription, f 1r.
An inscription on f ii verso reads: 'R. Curzon, British Embassy Therapia'.
Add MSS 39583-39671, along with Oriental MSS 8729-8855, were bequeathed to the British Museum by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917), having been part of the collection formed at Parham, Co. Sussex, by the Hon. Robert Curzon, afterwards 14th Baron Zouche, as the result of his travels in the Levant, etc., in 1833 and later. A copy of Robert Curzon's Catalogue of Materials for Writing, ... Rolls and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books (1849), with manuscript additions, accompanied the gift, and is now Add MS 64098.
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek Paper MS 12
Curzon MS 103 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 40
- Publications:
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R. Curzon, Catalogue of Materials for Writing, Early Writings on Tablets and Stones, Rolled and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books, in the library of the Honourable Robert Curzon, at Parham in the county of Sussex, London 1849, p. 26, no. 12.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, p. 97.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 81.
Digitisation has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Hellenic Foundation.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)