Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 30

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 11839

Introduction: This 15th-century manuscript is a copy of Herodotus by Andronikos Kallistos (Andronicus Callistus), preceded by a short essay on Ionic dialect. Since Gaisford's edition (1824), the manuscript is known as 'Sancroftianus' from its former owner, the Archbishop William Sancroft (1617-1693), and cited in modern editions as S. The manuscript is closely related to a copy of Thucydides now Cambridge, University Library, MS Nn.3.18 . The two manuscripts were conceived as a pair, both for their content (the two major Greek historians) and for their physical characteristics. The manuscripts were attributed to Andronikos Kallistos by Diller, and previously attributed to an unknown scribe named George the Cretan. The physician and book collector Anthony Askew (1722-1774) collated Emmanuel MS 30 for Petrus Wesseling (1692-1764), as stated by Richard Porson (1759-1808) in a note on f. [i] verso; Porson also numbered the books and chapters in the text. Dr Matteo Di Franco

Language(s): Greek

1. ff. 2r-3r

Moschopuli de Iade (ed. Rosen, Herodoti Historie, vol. I, 1987, pp. LXVIII-LXXXIV)

Rubric: f. 2r ἀρχὴ σὺν θεῶ τῶν ἰδιωμάτων τῆς ἰάδος διαλέκτου

Incipit: f. 2r Ἡ Ἰὰς τὰ εἰς ας λήγοντα ὀνόματα εἰς ης τρέπει, ἐὰν μὴ ὦσι Δώρια· ἑρμείας ἑρμείης, σωσίας σωσίης

Explicit: f. 3r Τὰ πρῶτα στοιχεῖα τῶν λέξεων ἀφαροῦσιν· ἑορτὴ ὁρτὴ· ἐνόει νόει· ἔτευχε τεῦχε

cf. TLG 4175.006

cf. Scholia Londinensia on Dionysius Thrax's Art of Grammar (ed. Hilgard, Grammatici Graeci, vol. 1.3, 1901, p. 467-468)

2. ff. 3r-3v

Extracts from Gregory of Corinth, De dialectis

Incipit: f. 3r Ἔτι παρ’ ἴωσι, τὸ ἔκτεινε, κατάκτενε λέγεται· τὸ ὑγιαίνειν, οὐλεῖν· Ὁ λόγος μῦθος

Explicit: f. 3v Φερέγγυος, ὁ βεβαιωτής· Ἀγηλατεύειν, τὸ διώκειν· Νεωχμῶσαι, τὸ νεωστὶ κινῆσαί τι

cf. TLG 4092.001

see CUL MS Dd.11.70, part IV ff. 3r-3v

3. ff. 4r-324r

Herodotus, The History Historiae

Rubric: f. 4r Ἡροδότου ἱστοριῶν πρώτη

Incipit: f. 4r Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησῆος ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις ἥδε, ὡς μήτε τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τῶ χρόνω ἐξίτηλα γένηται

Explicit: f. 324r ἄρχειν τε εἵλοντο λυπρὴν οἰκέοντες μᾶλλον ἢ πεδιάδα σπείροντες ἄλλοισι δουλεύειν

Final rubric: f. 324r τέλος σὺν θεῶ Ἡροδότοιο βίβλος κλεινοῖο πέρας λάβεν ὡδί

Book 1: ff. 4r-39v
Book 2: ff. [40]r-[84]v
Book 3: ff. [84]v-[123]v
Book 4: ff. [123]v-[165]r
Book 5: ff. [165]r-193v
Book 6: ff. 193v-[221]r
Book 7: ff. [221]r-[269]r
Book 8: ff. [269]r-[296]v
Book 9: ff. [296]v-[324]r

Marginal numbers in red ink refer to Paulus Stephanus' edition (Geneve, 1618), as stated on f. [i] verso

TLG 0016.002

for final rubric, DBBE Occurrence 20049

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: ff. 2-48 Western paper, folded in quarto. Watermark: cloverleaf with stripe ( c. 50 × c. 36 mm. ) in the gutter, comparable to Piccard, 12-1-88 . These examples are dated to around 1447. ff. 49-324, [iii-v] Western paper, folded in quarto. Watermark: anvil ( c. 30 × 28 mm. ) in the gutter, comparable to Briquet, 5953, 5955, 5956 . These examples are dated to mid 15th century.

Extent: Codex: ii + 323 + 3 + ii leaves. 220 × 130 mm.

Foliation: [i-ii] + 2-7, 10-15, 8-9, 16-25, [26-32], 33, [34-40], 41, [42-45, 45bis], 46, [47], 49, [50-56], 57, [58-64], 65, [66-72], 73, [74-80], 81, [82-88], 89, [90-96], 97, [98-104], 105, [106-112], 113, [114-120], 121, [122-128], 129, [130-136], 137, [138-144], 145, [146-152], 153, [154-160], 161, [162-168], 169, [170-176], 177, [178-184], 185, [186-192], 193, [194-200], 201, [202-208], 209, [210-216], 217, [218-224], 225, [226-232], 233, [234-240], 241, [242-248], 249, [250-256], 257, [258-264], 265, [266-272], 273, [274-280], 281, [282-288], 289, [290-296], 297, [298-304], 305, [306-312], 313, [314-320], 321, [322-323], 324 + [iii-v] + [vi-vii]. Foliated in Arabic numerals, in pencil, recto, upper right. Folio numbers are written on the first folio of each quire. ff. 8-9, which are bound out of order, have been foliated for their correct position in the textual sequence. The folio after f. [45] is not counted by mistake.

Collation

The manuscript consists of 41 quires, all quaternia.

Quire 1^8-2 ff. 2-7 The first folio has apparently been cancelled, without loss of text; the last has become detached and been bound out of order into Quire 2.
Quire 2⁸⁺¹ ff. 10-15, 8-9, 16 The first folio has become detached, and it and the preceding folio, originally the last of Quire 1, have been bound in after the original seventh folio of this quire.
Quires 3-40⁸ ff. 17-[320]
Quire 41^8-1 ff. 321-324, [iii-v] The fifth folio, originally a blank integral endleaf, has been lost, without loss of text; the sixth-eighth folios are blank integral endleaves.

Original quire signatures in brown ink, in Greek numerals, survive on all quires from α^ον (on misplaced f. 8v) to μα^ον (f. 321r), on the first folio of each quire, recto, lower centre, and the last folio of each quire, verso, lower centre.

Condition

There is slight water staining and occasional areas of dirt.

Layout

A single column of 29 lines. 157 × 95 mm.

Hand(s)

The manuscript was written by the scribe and scholar Andronikos Kallistos (RGK I 18) in a practised minuscule without any claim to aesthetic effect, related to the Druckminuskel.

Syllabic abbreviations and superscript letter endings usually appear only at the end of lines and rarely elsewhere (e.g. common abbreviation of μεν). Breathings are curved and joined to accents; circumflex accent is hat-like; almost vertical acutes and graves. Isolated trema is sometimes traced over iota and ypsilon; mute iota is present but not consisitently used. Horizontal bars over names are extended.

Kallistos' handwriting is characterized by the beta in bilobate shape, high gamma and lambda with curved elongated stroke if ligated, and enlarged lunate sigma.

Ligatures with rho are drawn up, traced in a single line and often with small closed loops.

Punctuation used includes the middle and upper point, lower comma and full stop.

Corrections and additions in brown pale ink in the margins are by the same hand.

Decoration

Thick red-ink initials at the beginning of each book.

Additions

Note by Richard Porson on f. [i] verso on Anthony Askew's collation: ‘Hic liber olim Gulielmi Sancroft, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, a Thoma Galeo, sed valde negligenter, longe diligentius in usum editionis Wesselingianae ab Antonio Askew collatus est, ut tamen non pauca omiserit, quaedam etiam minus recta notaverit.’ etc.

Binding

18th-century full leather binding in red leather over millboards and marbled pastedowns. Sewn with cord on single raised supports. There are also remains of tawed supports; it is possible that the cord has been used over the alum tawed when the manuscript was rebound. There is decorative gold tooling on the boards and spine, and the author's name is tooled in gold on the spine. The numbers 2-9 have been written on the fore-edge, roughly marking the beginning of each of the books of Herodotus after the first.

228 × 150 × 50 mm.

Accompanying Material

The outermost endleaves (ff. [i] and [vii]) are of the same marbled paper sheets as the pastedowns; within these are single sewn endleaves of plain laid paper (ff. [ii] and [vi]). The other right endleaves (ff. [iii-v]) are integral parts of the last quire.

History

Origin: The manuscript is related to Cambridge, University Library, MS Nn.3.18, and was written by Andronikos Kallistos between 1463 and c. 1475.

Provenance and Acquisition

According to the note on f. [i] verso by R. Porson, the manuscript belonged to the library of the Archbishop of Canterbury William Sancroft (1617-1693) , former master of Emmanuel College (1662-1665). It already belonged to the archbishop when it was collated by Thomas Gale in 1679.

The manuscript was donated to Emmanuel College shortly before Sancroft's death and it is listed in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697), tom. I, pars III, p. 91 as number 105.

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description (2021) draws on M.R. James, The Western manuscripts in the library of Emmanuel College: a descriptive catalogue, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904, p. 29.

Availability

Visitors to Emmanuel College who wish to consult Special Collections material are required to apply to the Library in advance of their visit. For information on eligibility and admission procedures see: Emmanuel College: Special Collections.

Bibliography

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Two Greek scribes identified as one Scriptorium, Meyier, K. A. de (11, 1, 99-102, 1957)

Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten, 800-1600 Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik, Gamillscheg, ErnstHarlfinger, Dieter (Wien, I. Grossbritannien, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981)

Les manuscrits d'Hérodote et la critique verbale Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di filologia classica e medievale dell'Università di Genova, Hemmerdinger, Bertrand (Genova, Istituto di filologia classica e medievale, 1981)

Studies in Greek manuscript tradition, Diller, Aubrey (Amsterdam, Hakkert,, 1983)

L'Erodoto di Palla Strozzi (cod. Vat. Urb. gr. 88) Bollettino dei Classici dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, De Gregorio, Giuseppe (23, 31-130, 2002)

The library of Richard Porson, Naiditch, P.G. (Philadelphia, Xlibris, 2011)

Literature and culture in late Byzantine Thessalonica, Russell, Eugenia (London, Bloomsbury, 2013)

Greek Literature in Exile: The Books of Andronicus Callistus, 1475-1476 Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Botley, Paul (72, 181-196, 2018)

Funding of Cataloguing

The Polonsky Foundation

Digital Images

Cambridge Digital Library

Abbreviations

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Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 30

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