Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.7.4
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 11913
Contents
Language(s): Greek and Latin
TLG 2042.045; CPG 1494; PG 11, 48-85
Physical Description
Modern foliation in pencil, in Arabic numerals, in the upper margin right; no. 1 has been given to what originally was the right board of a limp parchment cover; 1-14.
Collation
The manuscript consists of binions. The quires have been sewn tightly, therefore the reconstruction of the collation is based mainly on the position of the watermarks. The last leaf, f. 14, seems to have been added to the last quire.
- Quires 1-24 ff. 2-9
- Quire 34+1 ff. 10-14
Condition
Layout
A single column, number of lines varying between 24 and 29. ca. 165-175 × ca. 120-130 mm.
Hand(s)
ff. 2r l. 4-9r Hand A: a minuscule script slanting to the right, by a western European hand, datable to the 17th century. The script is characterized by some uprights (see gamma and delta e.g.) being unusually extended to the left.
The text is written in brown ink.
ff. 9v-14v Hand B: a minuscule script, slightly slanting to the right, by a western European hand, datable to the 17th century. The script is similar to hand A's, but the letters are smaller and more regularly traced.
The scribe wrote also marginal annotations throughout the whole text and some critical notes on ff. 14r-14v in Latin.
Additions
On f. 1v are written:
- a note concerning the donation to the College (see Acquisition)
- the shelfmark, ‘ B.7.4’
- a note, in light brown ink, concerning the production of this manuscript: the text was copied from a manuscript of Patrick Young and collated with the printed edition by David Hoeschel; conjectures by Patrick Young, Herbert Thorndike and Thomas Gale were added to the text: ‘ Descriptus est hic libellus ex Patricii | Junii exemplari; collatus est cum | ea parte hujus epistulae, quam edidit D. | Hoeschelius, conjecturas suas addidere | Patricius Junius, H. Thorndicius, et | T. G. v. Origenis opera ex editione Genebrard’
Binding
MSS B.7.4, B.14.13, B.15.39, B.15.40 have been bound together. Full leather cover over pasteboards. On the spine there is gold tooling with a title, ‘ Controvers. S. Isidorus etc.’, and three leather labels with the shelfmark, ‘ B’, ‘ 7’, ‘ 4’. 215 × 155 × 43 mm.
Accompanying Material
With the leaves forming B.7.4 came the left-hand part of a limp parchment binding ( ca. 200 × 145 mm. ), which has been numbered as f. 1r. In the upper part, to the right, is written in ink the number ‘ 40’. Inside, on f. 1v, there has been pasted a paper leaf with notes about the manuscript (see Additions and History). The parchment is stained.
History
The manuscript was copied in the 17th century.
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by Herbert Thorndike (1598-1672) , English academic and clergyman, fellow of Trinity College (1618).
Donated to Trinity College Library by Herbert Thorndike : a note on f. 1v records ‘ Trin. Coll. Cant. | Anno Domini 1672 | Ex dono doctissini Magistri Herberti | Thornedick huius Collegii | nuper Socii Senioris.’ On f. 13v is pasted the Trinity College bookplate.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Bibliography
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The western manuscripts in the library of
Trinity College: a descriptive catalogue, James, M.R. (Cambridge, 1, Cambridge University Press, 1900)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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