Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

A catalogue of Western manuscripts and papyri at Cambridge University Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum and selected Cambridge colleges

Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.4.40

Diktyon no.: 12154

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Introduction: The manuscript is a copy, written by the Dutch philologist and historian Theodore Rycke (1640-1690; latinized Theodorus Ryckius), of the alphabetical index of authors and works of the Greek manuscripts of the Vatican Library. The index is based on the "Grande Inventario" of the Vaticani Graeci 1-1486 by Leone Allacci (ca. 1586-1669), drawn up between 1614 and 1630 (tom. 1-2 now Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatt. gr. 2668-2669 olim Sala Cons. MSS 321-322 rosso; tom. 3 Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 2664 olim Sala Cons. MSS 323 rosso). Between 1667 and 1669, Lorenzo Porzio (1604-1676; scriptor Graecus in the Vatican Library from 1654 to 1676), wrote the alphabetical index in three volumes, now collected in Vat. gr. 2665 (olim Sala Cons. MSS 42 (1-3) rosso: tom. 1, tom. 2, tom. 3). Rycke's copy appears in an abridged form and the classmarks and folios of the manuscripts have not been noted consistently. Dr Matteo Di Franco

Language(s): Greek and Latin

Lorenzo Porzio, Index of the Greek manuscripts in the Vatican Library
Rubric: f. 1r Catalogus Librorum MSS Graecorum qui in Bibliotheca Vaticana reperiuntur. A Theodoro Ryckio Romae Scriptus
Incipit: f. 1r Σὺν θεῷ Ἀβάμων Ἀβάμωνος διδασκάλου ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς τὴν Πορφυρίου
Explicit: f. 111r καὶ μετὰ τῶν ἐξηγήσεων διαφόρων πατέρων δηλαδὴ Θεοδωρήτου, Ἡσυχίου, Κυρίλλου, Θεοδότου. Σὺν θεῷ

ff. 111v-115v blank.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: ff. 1r-115v Western paper, folded in quarto. Watermark: Cock over triple mount in a circle ( 40 × 40 mm. ) in the middle of the folio.
Extent: Codex: 2 + 111 + 4 leaves., 233 × 178 mm.
Foliation: The leaves are foliated in pencil in Arabic numerals in the upper right-hand corner, recto.

Collation

The quires have been sewn very tightly and the structure is difficult to determine confidently. Catchwords present on about half of the leaves, with no relation to quires; also present on rectos on ff. 99r-104r.

Condition

The corners of the textblock are worn and rounded. Tears along the foredges, brittle at the very edges.

Layout

ff. 1r-111r: written space 230 × 175 mm. Two columns, 36 to 41 lines per column.

Hand(s)

Manuscript written by Theodore Rycke (1640-1690) in 1669.

Additions

A note in pencil on f. [i] recto: ‘Rycke was in Rome in 1669’. Title in black ink on f. 1.

Binding

17th century, couched-laminate board binding covered in quarter mid-brown calfskin with marbled paper. Abridged title is tooled in gold on the spine. Left inner joint is partially split, the right inner joint is fully split.

246 × 184 × 22 mm.

History

Origin: The manuscript was copied in Rome; by Theodore de Rycke (1640-1690), a Dutch philologist, in 1669, as stated on the title on f. 1r.

Provenance and Acquisition

It was probably part of the Hautin library; it did not belong to Jean-Baptiste Hautin (who died in 1640), but was acquired by one of his descendants.

John Moore (1646-1714), bishop of Ely . Perhaps acquired after 1697 or later. The manuscript is neither listed in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697) nor in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now CUL MS Oo.7.50.2, compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735) after the publication of Bernard's catalogue.

Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I : donation bookplate engraved by John Pine (1690-1756) in 1736 on the left pastedown.

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description (2019) draws on A catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1856, p. 239

Availability

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Bibliography

    A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge, (Cambridge, 1, Cambridge University Press, 1856) The Greek Manuscripts of John Moore and Etienne Baluze Codices Manuscripti, Jackson, Donald F. (56/57, 29-42, 2006)

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