Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.9.12
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12038
Contents
Language(s): Greek
For the first part of the text, see, although different, M. Patillon, Corpus Rhetoricum, 3: Pseudo-Hermogène L'invention, Anonyme Synopse des exordes (Paris, 2012), pp. 136-138
ff. 14r-15v are blank
ff. 21v-26v are blank
ff. 30r-[d] verso are blank
Physical Description
Modern foliation in pencil, in Arabic numerals, in the upper margin right, from i to vi and from 1 to 31; two later endleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript are unnumbered (ff. [a]-[b], [c]-[d]): [a]-[b] + i-vi, 1-31 + [c]-[d].
Another foliation in modern pencil, 1 ( f. i recto) to 36 ( f. 31r) has been erased.
Collation
- 2 paper later endleaves ff. [a]-[b]
- Quires 1-26 ff. i-vi, 1-6
- Quires 3-48 ff. 7-22
- Quire 54 ff. 23-26
- 3 paper leaves, ff. 27-29
- 2 parchment leaves, ff. 30-31
- 2 paper later endleaves ff. [c]-[d]
Condition
Layout
Dry-point ruling; passim red ink ruling. A single column of 38 lines. 185 × 70 mm.
Hand(s)
ff.1r-13v, 16r-21r, 27r-29v Hand A: the texts have been written in a minuscule script, quite regular in size, upright, which shows a tendency to realise ornamental hooks at the end of uprights. It is probably the script of a western European hand; the formation of some letters is rather hesitant; on ff. 27r-29v the scribe writes in Greek and Latin. The script can be dated to the 15th century and can be compared with the so-called Druckminuskel.
The text is written in brown ink; titles and initials in red.
Decoration
In the margins all around the text on f. 1r there are flowers and a strawberry with stems and leaves painted in blue, red, pink, violet and green.
Additions
On f. 1r another hand added in the upper margin a title, ‘ Ἑρμογένους τέχνης ῥητορικῆς σύνοψις’ and a note of unclear meaning, citing the city of Lupton (?) and the year 1579, ‘ Τω λυμπτον … (?) 1579’: it is maybe a note by an owner of the manuscript in the 16th century.
On f. i recto there are some annotations: ‘R.9.12’ (present shelfmark) and the title ‘ Ἑρμογένους τέχνης ῥητορικῆς σύνοψις’.
Binding
Western full leather cover over pasteboards. Blind tooling on the boards' edges. Gold tooling on spine with title, ‘ Hermogenis’. 258 × 110 × 15 mm.
History
The manuscript was copied probably in the 15th century, as the script and the watermark of the leaves of paper suggest.
Provenance and Acquisition
It was owned by George Wilmer (1583/84-1626) of West Ham, Essex, Fellow of Trinity College, and collector of customs revenues under James I.
Donated to Trinity College by Wilmer , probably around the years 1608-1614 (the date of acquisition is uncertain; for this hypothesis see P. Gaskell, Trinity College Library. The First 150 Years. The Sandars Lectures 1978-9 (Cambridge, 1980), p. 80 note 1). On the left pastedown is pasted the Trinity College bookplate.
Additional Information
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Bibliography
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The western manuscripts in the library of
Trinity College, Cambridge: a descriptive catalogue, James, M.R. (Cambridge, 2, Cambridge University Press, 1901)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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