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Yates Thompson MS 50
- Record Id:
- 040-002360081
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000926.0x0000ae
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165175790.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 50
- Title:
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Aristophanes, with hypotheses, marginal scholia and interlinear glosses
- Scope & Content:
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Aristophanes, Plutus (TLG 0019.029), ff 2r-76v, with interlinear glosses partly in Latin, followed by Nubes (TLG 0019.021), ff 77r-171r, and preceded by Vita Thomana 1 (TLG 4158.009), ff 1r-v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002360081 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 50 : Aristophanes, with hypotheses, marginal scholia and interlinear glosses - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0055]/040-002360081
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165175790.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Watermark: Scales (cf. Piccard Waage VI. 244-251); Hat (cf. Briquet 3378, Venice 1478 and 1479).
Foliation: ff 171 ( + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm.
Ruling: 120 x 70 mm, ruled for commentary in two unequal lines, 70 and 30 mm. Leroy 20E2, 8 lines of text, 35/36 lines of commentary.
Collation: Gatherings of 8, numbered α'-κβ' (β7 lacks 6, κβ3).
Binding: Quarter brown leather.
Decoration: Decorated headpieces. Large decorated initials.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy (possibly Venice).
Provenance:
The Minutoli-Tegrimi family, of Lucca, until 1871: its book-stamp (ff. 1, 76, 171v).
Ambroise Firmin Didot (b. 1790, d. 1876), publisher and book-collector: his book-plate 'Bibliotheca Ambrosii Firmini Didoti' (inside upper cover); his sale, 9 June 1881, lot 2.
Henry Ellis Allen; by descent to his son Samuel Allen and grandson Capt. Samuel Allen: their sale at Sotheby's, London, 30 January 1920, lot 3, bought by Maggs for £18 10s: cutting from the sales catalogue with a description of this manuscript (f [i]).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: his book-plate inscribed '[MS] x / £x.x.x [i.e. £x.x.x] / [bought from] Maggs / 3 June / 1921' (inside upper cover).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Yates_Thompson_MS_50].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=18496&CollID=58&NStart=50].
- Publications:
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C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).
G. Piccard, Wasserzeichen Waage (Die Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard im Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, Findbuch V), Stuttgart 1978.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 252.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)