Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.11.54
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12170
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Physical Description
Collation
The fragile condition of the book, the tightness of the binding, and the loss of some leaves do not allow the number of quires to be determined accurately.
Condition
In poor condition, with large spots, tears, and wormholes, paper edges are very soft and wrinkled; the text is illegible at various points, in both parts. Prior to recent conservation, the front board had become detached. A small scrap of paper that became detached from one of the leaves has been rehoused in melinex, and is kept at the front of the volume.
Binding
Binding with pale brown full leather covering over couched-laminate boards. The right board is loose, the left board is detached. There is decorative blind tooling on boards and board edges, gold tooling on spine.
The title (Lucianus &C. M.S.) is tooled in gold on the spine.
White paper is used as pastedowns with blank endleaves.
189 × 140 × 45 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
This manuscript was part of the library of Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi (1501-1550) : on f. 6v Ridolfi's designation is preserved (‘ nº 40 ’).
Part of the estate of the Queen of France, Catherine de Medici (see Muratore (2009)).
Apparently removed from the French Royal collection before 1622 (when Nicolas Rigault compiled his catalogue).
Probably removed by the numismatist and Rigault's collaborator Jean-Baptiste Hautin (1580?-1640) (some of whose manuscripts are known to have entered the collection of John Moore, but see Acquisition).
A certain date of accession is not known, however the manuscript is first recorded
among the
collections of Cambridge University Library in a catalogue compiled in 1754-56 by
Thomas Goodall (now Cambridge, University Library, MS Oo.7.53-55). The manuscript may have belonged to
John Moore (1646-1714)
, bishop of Ely, and it contains the donation bookplate engraved by
John Pine (1690-1756)
in 1736, in commemoration of the purchase and donation of Moore's library by
George I (1660-1727)
(left pastedown). However, it has not been possible to
identify this manuscript among Moore's collections as recorded in Bernard, Catalogi librorum
manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697) or in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts
(now MS Oo.7.50(2)) compiled by
Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)
after its publication, and these bookplates are not wholly reliable guides to a manuscript's
provenance and acquisition.
Endleaves: later additions [Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.11.54, ff. 1-5 and 139-142]
Contents
Language(s): Latin, Greek, and French
Description of the content in French: ‘ Recueil de Lucien et autres pieces ’
Physical Description
Part 1 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.11.54, ff. 6r-90v]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Listed in the index (f. 5v) as Mauricii Imperatoris Epitaphium
TLG 3135.002
The first three lines are an opening paraphrasis, not readable in full
A later hand added ‘ eschili tragediae et quidam luciani ’
TLG 0062.068
- ff. 7v-12r: dialogues 2-10 (ed. Macleod 1987)
- ff. 12r-13r: 14-16 (15-16 incomplete due to a loss of a leaf)
- ff. 13r-15r: 11-13 (11-12 incomplete due to a loss of a leaf)
TLG 0062.066
TLG 0062.016
- ff. 21v-22v: dialogues 13-14
- ff. 22v-24r: 19-20
- ff. 24r-24v: 6
- ff. 24v-26r: 10
- ff. 26r-27r: 8
- ff. 27r-28r: 15-17
- ff. 28r-28v: 21
- ff. 28v-29v: 18
- ff. 29v-30r: 22
- ff. 30r-30v: 9 (incomplete due to a loss of a leaf)
- f. 31r: 12 (incomplete due to a loss of a leaf)
TLG 0062.068
TLG 0062.067
- ff. 31v-34v: dialogues 26-29
TLG 0062.066
TLG 0062.032
- ff. 39v-40r: dialogues 4-5
- ff. 40r-40v: dialogues 9-10
TLG 0062.067
TLG 0062.005
Scholia on ff. 42v-44r
TLG 0062.001
Scholia on ff. 45v-46r
TLG 0062.001
Text incomplete: f. 48v ends at section 5 (ed. Macleod 1980) (καὶ τί τὸ θαῦμα ἐνῆν τῇ γραφῇ αὐτοῦ), f. 49r begins at section 8 (καὶ ὑποδέχεται πόλις ἡ ἀρίστη οὖσα οὐ κατὰ πίσαν)
TLG 0062.056
Missing title, preceded by hypothesis in the rubric
text incomplete: ends at section 20 (ed. Macleod 1980)
TLG 0062.051
Marginal and interlinear glosses, and scholia
TLG 2200.005
Text incomplete: f. 63v ends at paragraph 1 (ed. Keil) (στέρονται δὲ οἰκέται καὶ φίλοι καὶ πόλεις), f. 64r begins at paragraph 15 (παύσασθε ὦ ἄνθρωποι, οὐκ οἰκτρὸς ὁ παῖς, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀνὴρ)
TLG 0284.011
- ff. 64v-65r: 2 Amato = 7 Walz
- ff. 65r-65v: 3 Amato = 4 Walz
- f. 65v: 4 Amato = 6 Walz (defective at the end)
- f. 66r: 9 Amato = 8 Walz (defective at the begin)
- ff. 66r-67r: 5 Amato = 3 Walz
TLG 4239.003
TLG 2200.006
TLG 2200.006
TLG 2200.005
TLG 2200.006
TLG 2200.006
TLG 2200.006
TLG 2200.006
Scholia and glosses in ff. 75v-82v
TLG 2200.004
TLG 2200.006
TLG 2200.006
Text incomplete: ends at paragraph 39 (ed. Foerster)
TLG 2200.005
Physical Description
Condition
In poor general condition. Leaves have yellowed with age; large spots, tears, and wormholes; paper edges are very soft and crumpled.
Layout
ff. 6r-90v, written space 130-145 × 95-100 mm.
Hand(s)
Hand A-E: ff. 6r-6v
The extracts and short texts on ff. 6r-6v are written in mixed minuscules by five different hands: A f. 6r ll. 1-19, 6v l. 1-4; B f. 6r ll. 20-31; C f. 6v ll. 5-15, D f. 6v ll. 16-17; E f. 6v ll. 18-19.
Hand F: ff. 7r-90v
The core of the manuscript part is written in a informal mixed minuscule upright or slanting slightly to the right, in brown, dark brown, and black inks, with titles and initials in red ink.
This hand shows variations of ductus and density of text, so that it appears ordered in some parts and disordered in others. It is distinguished by a marked variation in letter size and several majuscule letters (beta, gamma, delta, eta, kappa, lambda, pi, phi), often enlarged, as well as the omega. The majuscule beta has has a bilobated shape along with a heart-like shape. Tau and gamma are often high. The iota mutum is rarely used. The ligatures are frequent, and those with tau and rho are overlapping.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings usually appear only at the end of lines, but occasionally elsewhere.
Decoration
The thick red-ink major initials mark the start of a new work from f. 7r.
History
Part 2 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.11.54, ff. 91r-138v]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Most of the text is a list of words ending in εια and ια (see: f. 91r l. 13 τὰ δὲ διὰ τοῦ ι γραφόμενα)
Text incomplete: contains proemium and historiae IV 1-62 (see ed. Nimmo Smith 1992); of some stories only the title is copied (e.g. hist. 50-55 in ff. 100r-110v). The readings trace this manuscript back to family m
CPG 3011.1
PG 36, 985-1017
TLG 3127.001
Defective at the beginning and end.
The text proceeds continously at l. 15 after the explicit of the previous item (Historia V 31 is marked as λα'). The manuscript contains historiae V 31-35 and 37 (see ed. Nimmo Smith 1992, appendix). The readings and the "extra" historia trace this manuscript back to family m
CPG 3011.2
PG 36, 1053-1058
TLG 3127.001
With lacunas
CPG 3011.3
PG 36, 1057-1065
TLG 3127.001
Defective at the end.
CPG 3011.4
PG 36, 1065-1069
TLG 3127.001
The treatise presents many similarities with Tryphon I, Περὶ παθῶν (TLG 0609.002)
TLG 4093.010
TLG 2709.004
Αccompanied by scholia and explanations
TLG 9102.007
ff. 124v, 125v-126v have been struck through
The same treatise is in CUL MS Dd.5.29.
Physical Description
Condition
In bad condition, the sheets are yellowed, stained and wrinkled; in several places the text is illegible. The edges are roughly trimmed.
Layout
ff. 91r-138v, written space 130 × 90 mm.
ff. 111r-112r: written space 120 × 95 mm.
Hand(s)
Hand G: ff. 91r-138v
The second part is written in a Fettaugen mode mixed minuscule slanting slightly to the right, in dark brown ink.
This hand presents the main characteristics of the Fettaugen mode, but it is performed without order and clarity, with numerous inclusions, large letters combined with others of smaller module.
Tails are flourished into the lower margins, and frequently on right-hand margins
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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