Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 248
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 11828
Contents
Language(s): Greek and Latin
From the Aldine editio princeps of the Homerocentones, Poetae Christiani veteres (1501-1504)
From the Aldine editio princeps of the Homerocentones, Poetae Christiani veteres (1501-1504)
In the inner margin, the reference to the book of the Iliad (abbreviated with ι) or the Odyssey (abbreviated with ο) from which the verse is taken.
CPG 6025
TLG 2766.003
From the Aldine editio princeps of the Homerocentones, Poetae Christiani veteres, vol. 2 (1502)
TLG 9010.001
BHG 83
TLG 9010.001
TLG 0020.002
TLG 0020.001
TLG 1247.001
TLG 0002.001
Attributed to Pythagoras
TLG 0632.001
before the text a note in Latin: ‘Vulgo doctioribus persuasum est haec aurea carmina non esse Pythagorae, sed Philolai. Io. Picus in prooemio Heptapli sui’ with reference to Heptaplus by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1489)
TLG 7052.003
TLG 1605.001
From the Aldine editio princeps of the Homerocentones, Poetae Christiani veteres (1501-1504)
vd. P.O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum 2, London-Leiden, 1967, p. 195
BHL 6128
Translation of Suda ν 392, cf. TLG 9010.001
Physical Description
a, i-vii + 1-178 + b. Foliation in pencil in lower-case letters and Roman numerals in the upper right-hand corner, recto.
Collation
The manuscript consists of 16 quaternions and 5 quinions:
- Quires 1-108 ff. 1r-72v
- Quires 11-1310 ff. 73r-102v
- Quires 14-158 ff. 103r-118v
- Quires 16-1710 ff. 119r-138v
- Quires 18-228 ff. 139r-178v
Condition
Layout
ff. 1r-178r: written space 102 × 65 mm. 20 lines to a page.
Hand(s)
The manuscript is written by the Belgian scholar Lieven Van der Maude , known as Levinus Ammonius (1485?-1556) (RGK I 10) in Greek and in Latin. He was a Carthusian monk of St Maartensbos (Brussels) and correspondent of Erasmus of Rotterdam. The Greek script is a minuscule influenced by contemporary printing types.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript letter endings are few, breathings are courved and not joined to accents; mute iota is constantly in used.
Punctuation used includes the middle and upper point, lower comma and full stop.
Young (1953) had previously identified the copyist as Giovanni Onorio da Maglie, for ff. 107-136 (Theognis).
Decoration
Simple major initials in majuscule in blue ink on ff. 1r, 1v, 67v, 73r, 107v and 147r; in blue and red ink on ff. 61v and 93r.
Pied-de-mouche widely used: in red ink on ff. 1r, 1v, 107v, and 147r, in blue ink troughout the entire manuscript.
Additions
f. a recto: ‘Dono Danieli Rogerio Joannes Olivarius dono dabam pridie calend. Martii 1564’.
Binding
Rebacked with couched-laminate boards in 1954, the classmark is tooled in gold on the spine. The binding re-uses panels probably made in France (end of 15th cent. - early 16th cent.); in all likelihood these belonged to the original binding. Both boards are stamped: a rectangle contains four panels decorated with vine branches of grapes and dogs. The panels surrounded by four fleur de lis in the corners and illegible verses. Very similar panels are found on the binding of Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.6.23.
215 × 151 × 22 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
As stated in the note on f. a recto, the manuscript was presented in 1564 to the Anglo-Flemish diplomat and politician Daniel Rogers (b. 1538?, d. 1591) by the Spanish scholar Pedro Juan Oliver .
The manuscript is not included in Thomas James's catalogue of 1600, nor in the manuscript catalogue CCCC MS 490, which lists additions to the Parker collection up to 1613, with further entries bringing the acquisitions up to second half of 17th century. It appears in William Stanley's catalogue of 1722: the classmark Lib. ab Al. 29 remains of f. a recto.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
Visitors to Corpus Christi College who wish to consult Special Collections material are required to apply to the Parker Library in advance of their visit. For information on eligibility and admission procedures see: Parker Library: Information for Readers.
Bibliography
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A codicological inventory of Theognis manuscripts Scriptorium, Young, Douglas C. C. (7, 1, 3-36, 1953)
Historia tēs paradoseōs tou keimenou tou Hēsiodou, Livadaras, Nikolaos A (Athēnais, Typographeion Myrtidē, 1963)
Scribes grecs de la Renaissance Scriptorium. Revue internationale des études relatives
aux manuscrits, Meyier, K. A. de (18.2, 258-266, 1964)
La tradizione manoscritta della I redazione degli Homerocentones Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Schembra, Rocco (93, 162-175, 2000)
Giovanni Onorio da Maglie: copista greco, 1535- 1563 Giovanni Onorio da Maglie Supplemento
... al "Bollettino dei classici", Agati, Maria Luisa (Roma, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 2001)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation (cataloguing).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (digital images).
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