Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.1.14
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 11956
Contents
Language(s): Greek
ff. 4v-5v are blank
TLG 0648.001
ff. 9v and 75v are blank
Εd. A. Dain, Naumachica, Paris 1943, pp. [19]-33 and G.T. Dennis, The Taktika of Leo VI, Washington D.C. 2010, 502-534
TLG 2944.007
At the end of the text the scribe wrote ‘ Οὐκ ἦν πλέον τῶν ἐνταῦθα’, indicating that the text ended there in his exemplar
Εd. A. Dain, Naumachica, Paris 1943, pp. 37-38, and G.T. Dennis, The Taktika of Leo VI, Washington D.C. 2010, pp. 187-221
TLG 2944.007
This text has been transmitted under the name of Basil Lekapenos (or the Nothos, or Basilius patricius) , to whom the work is dedicated (see Dain 1943, pp. 57-59)
At the end of the text the scribe wrote ‘Οὕτω ἔκειτο ἐν τῷ πρωτοτύπῳ’, indicating that he copied the text according to his exemplar.
Εd. A. Dain, Naumachica, Paris 1943, pp. 61-68
Physical Description
Modern pencil foliation, in Arabic numerals, in the upper margin right from iv to v and from 1 to 131; three blank leaves at the beginning are unnumbered: [i]-[iii] + iv-v + 1-131.
Collation
The first quire is a binion formed by later endleaves: the first leaf is the left pastedown. The second is a quaternion damaged by fire, which lost a leaf (without loss of text); to it a leaf has been added (the paper is different from that of the remaining leaves of this quire), f. iv. Quire 3 lacks one leaf without loss of text.
- Quire 14 ff. left pastedown-[iii]
- Quire 28-1+1 ff. iv-6( α΄)
- Quire 316-1 ff. 7-21( β΄)
- Quires 4-616 ff. 22-69
- Quires 7-920 ff. 70-129
Condition
Layout
A single column of 13 lines. 135 × 90 mm.
Hand(s)
ff. v recto, 1r-9r, 10r-119r Hand A: the texts have been copied entirely by Andreas Darmarios (1540-after 1587) , (Ἀνδρέας Δαρμάριος, RGK I, 13. See also RGK II, 21; RGK III, 22), who signed the copy on 1st January 1573.
The text is written in a light brown ink, titles and initials in red.
ff.105v-119r, passim Hand a: marginal annotations in Latin and Greek, in black ink, to the text Ad Basilium patricium Naumachica, and a note about Basilius patricius (f. 105v) have been written by Patrick Young (1584-1652) (for the identification see M. R. James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge (Cambridge, 1902), vol. 3, p. 14; the Greek script is the same of other manuscripts written by Young, as, for example, London, British Library, Harley 7522 B , Cambridge, Trinity College, O.1.36).
The scribe wrote also variants in the margins, with asterisks, see e.g. f. 45v.
Hand b: another hand, probaly slightly later, wrote throughout the manuscript annotations with variants from a manuscript owned by Vossius (see f. iv recto, ‘ In cod. MS Vossii [...]’, and f. 76r ‘Cod. Voss. haec tribuit [...]’), providing the marginal annotations with the abbreviation ‘ Vos.’ (see e.g. 115r). The script seems to be by the hand of a western European scholar; the ink is light brown. Since the Vossian manuscript can be identified as Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Voss. Gr. O. 11, written by Isaac Vossius in 1642 ( K. de Meyïer, Bibliotheca Universitatis Leidensis. Codices manuscripti, 6: Codices Vossiani graeci et Miscellanei, Lugduni Batavorum 1955, pp. 211-212), the script must be dated after the middle of the 17th century.
Decoration
On f. 6r there is a frieze with a rope motif in brown ink.
Initials in ekthesis are decorated with a vegetal motif, see f. 10r. There are also simple thick initials in red ink, see e.g. f. 17r.
Small crosses, and small vegetal motifs are traced after the titles and at the end of the texts, see e.g. ff. 9r and 10r.
Additions
On the left pastedown are written the Gale collection old number, ‘no 198’, and shelfmark, ‘ C.66’, the present shelfmark, ‘ O.1.14’, and an older one, ‘ O.3.31’.
On f. iv recto there is a note by hand b indicating incipit and explicit of the text Ad Basilium patricium Naumachica in a manuscript of Isaac Vossius. After that, in the same ink, there is the shelfmark ‘C.66’ from the Gale collection. Hand b wrote annotations in the margins referring to the manuscript of Vossius throughout the manuscript, and intervened also on f. 119r, in the space between the end of the text and the scribe's colophon. While Darmarios concluded the text saying that it finished in that way in his exemplar, hand b indicated what instead followed in the MS of Vossius.
On f. v recto, two titles in Latin have been erased with a line.
On f. v verso there is an annotation in brown ink referring to the Suidas lexicon, by a later hand.
On f. 129v there is an annotation referring to a text present in a manuscript of Magdalen College, Oxford: ‘ Περὶ τῶν πολεμικῶν παρασκευῶν Athanasius quidam in Bibl. Magd. Oxon. n. 90’; the author name is mispelled, as the work is Athenaeus (mechanicus), De machinis belli; the manuscript is probably Oxford, Magdalen College, gr. 14 .
On f. 130v there is an annotation in Latin referring probably to the Basil the Nothos.
Binding
Western modern binding. Paper cover over millboard; parchment on spine, on which are pasted three paper labels with the shelfmark. 208 × 150 × 23 mm.
There are some scraps on the cover; the upper part of the spine is damaged.
History
The manuscript was copied and signed by the Greek scribe Andreas Darmarios on 1st January 1573 in Venice.
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript was owned by Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) , and was probably sold to him by Darmarios in Geneva, around 1584 (see E. Craster, 'Casaubon’s Greek Manuscripts', Bodleian Quarterly Record 5 (1926-1928), pp. 97-100: 99 no. 33; L. Calvié, 'Le commerce transalpin du copiste-libraire vénitien Andréas Darmarios entre 1582 et 1585', Revue d'Histoire des Textes 15 (2020), pp. 89-168: 115-119, 161).
It was subsequently part of the collection of the English classical scholar and antiquarian Thomas Gale (ca. 1635-1702) . It appears among Thomas Gale's Greek manuscripts in E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (Oxoniæ, 1697), p. 190, no. 6038 (204) ‘Onosandri Strategica. Leoni Imp. Naumachica. Basilii Patrici Naumachica. Gr.’.
It was donated to Trinity College by the antiquary Roger Gale (1672-1744) in 1738. On f. v verso is pasted the Trinity College bookplate. On ff. 1r and 119v there are stamps of Trinity College.
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The Polonsky Foundation
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