Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 79
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77766
Contents
Language(s): Greek and Latin
Physical Description
Leaves have not been numbered; ff. [i]-[ii], [iii]-[iv] are later endleaves: [i]-[ii] + [1]-[32] + [iii]-[iv].
The scribe wrote running heads, with the title of the work respectively in Greek and in Latin, in the upper part of all columns.
Collation
1? (ff. [1]-[18], structure unclear) | 214 (ff. [19]-[32])
Condition
Binding
Early modern western binding, paper cover, with leather over the spine and the four external corners, over millboards. Gold tooling on the spine, with title ‘ Sacra Bib. Compend.’, and blind tooled ‘ MS’. On the spine are pasted four paper labels with the older shelfmark, ‘ MSS’, ‘ 1’, ‘ 3’, ‘ 27’. 210 × 155 × ca. 100 mm.
Brown stains have spread on the paper cover near the leather parts.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript was donated by Joshua Barnes to Emmanuel College (see James (1904), p. xii). On the left pastedown is pasted the College bookplate.
Part 1 [Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 79, ff. [1]-[18]]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
On the same folio, in the lower left part, Barnes added the date on which he completed the volume ‘ Eman. Coll. Martii 28 1673’ and the date of his admission to the College, 11 August 1671.
The text is written only on the recto of the leaves
The text is still unpublished
After the title Barnes wrote two quotations in Greek
On f. [3]r B there is a dedication to John Breton (d. 1676), Master of Emmanuel College
On f. [3]v there is a list of the Biblical topics
- f. [17]r A, tit. Εἰς τὸν ἀνέρα πολυμαθέστατον ἐν τῇ θεολογίᾳ, διδάσκαλον τον Ἰωὰν, τοῦ Βρετὰν τὸν τοῦ Ἐμανουὴλ συνεδρίου μουσάρχην
- f. [17]r A tit. Περὶ τῶν ὑπερθυρίων τοῦ Ἐμανουὴλ παρασήμων
- f. [17]r A tit. Περὶ τοῦ Λέοντος δεδαιδαλμένου ἐν τῇ τοῦ Νηοῦ ἄκρῃ
- f. [17]r B tit. Τῷ εὐνουστάτῳ καὶ εὐμαθεστάτῳ δεσπότῃ τῷ Καντίῳ τῷ τοῦ Ἐμανουὴλ ἀξιοτάτῳ Προέδρῳ
- f. [17]r B tit. Τῷ εὐνουστάτῳ ἀνθρώπῳ τῷ Ἰωὰν, Βαλδερεστώνῳ τῷ τοῦ Ἐμανουὴλ ἑταίρῳ
- f. [17]r B tit. Τῷ προσφιλεστάτῳ καὶ εὐμενεστάτῳ δεσπότῃ τῷ Ἑρρίκῳ τοῦ Ληίου τῷ τοῦ Ἐμανουὴλ ἑταίρῳ
- f. [18]r A tit. Τῷ εὐμενεστάτῳ αὐτοῦ ἐπιτρόπῳ δεσπότῃ τῷ Παρκήρῳ τῷ τοῦ Ἐμανουὴλ ἑταίρῳ
- f. [18]r A tit. Πρὸς τὸν αὐτόν
After the epigrams there is a note in Latin by Barnes greeting the dedicatee
Physical Description
Collation
Since the quires have been sewn tightly, and were not numbered, the collation is difficult to ascertain; the observation of the watermark does not help. (It does not suggest a regular succession of quires.)
Layout
ff. [4]r-[18]r: The text is written perpendicular to the usual direction of the text in codices. Two columns of 26-27 lines. 140 × 180 mm.
Hand(s)
Hand A: the texts have all been written by Joshua Barnes , in a minuscule script, vertical, regular in size.
The text is written in brown ink.
Decoration
On f. [1]r Joshua Barnes sketched in brown ink the arms of the College, a lion rampant.
Additions
On the left pastedown is written in brown ink the previous shelfmark, ‘ 1.3.27’; in pencil, in a rhombus, is written the present shelfmark, ‘ 79’.
On f. [1]r, over the College arms, Barnes wrote in Greek the name of the college; under the arms he wrote a quotation from Homer, ‘δόσις δ’ ὀλίγη τε φίλη τε ’ ( Od. 6, 268), and a sentence in Latin.
History
This part of the manuscript is an autograph by the author of the text, Joshua Barnes, and was completed on 28 March 1673 in Cambridge, Emmanuel College (see the date on f. [2]r).
Part 2 [Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 79, ff. [19]-[32]]
Contents
Language(s): Greek and Latin
ff. [19]r-[19]v are blank
The text is written only on the recto of the leaves
The text is still unpublished
On f. [21]r B there is a dedication to James Duport (1606-1679) , Regius Professor of Greek, master of Magdalene College
After the title Barnes wrote two quotations in Greek; in addition, he wrote notes in Greek and Latin and additions throughout in the margins
- f. [31]r A tit. Τῷ ἀναγνώστῃ
- f. [31]r A tit. Περὶ τοῦ παντὸς ἐν ἑὴ[sic] λόγῳ
- f. [31]r B tit. Περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐνανθρωπήσαντος
- f. [31]r B tit. Περὶ Χριστοῦ ἀναστάντος
- f. [31]r B tit. Περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀναβάντος
- f. [32]r A tit. Εἰς τὸ αὐτό
- f. [32]r A tit. Τῆς Ἰλιάδος τέλος
- f. [32]r A tit. Τὸ αὐτό
- f. [32]r B tit. Μῆνιν ἄειδε
- f. [32]r B tit. Τῶν ἐμῶν ἔργων τάξις
After the epigrams there is a note in Latin by Barnes greeting the dedicatee
Physical Description
Collation
Part II consists of one single quire formed by 14 leaves.
- Quire 214 ff. [19]-[32]
Layout
ff. [22]r-[30]r: The text is written perpendicular to the usual direction of the text in codices. A single column of 22-24 lines. ca. 130-135 × ca. 80-90 mm.
ff. [32]r-[32]r: The text is written perpendicular to the usual direction of the text in codices. Two columns of 20-21 lines. ca. 130 × ca. 160-170 mm.
History
This part of the manuscript is an autograph by the author of the text, Joshua Barnes, and was completed in 1673 in Cambridge, Emmanuel College (see the date on f. [32]r).
Additional Information
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Availability
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Bibliography
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The Western manuscripts in the library of
Emmanuel College: a descriptive catalogue, James, M. R. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1904)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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