Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.7
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12202
Contents
Language(s): Greek
TLG 0716.001
f. [16a]r-[16a]v are blank; on f. [16a]r there is a note attesting that nothing is missing in the text, ‘ Nihil deest, verte folium μέμνηται’ (μέμνηται is the first word of f. 17r)
Physical Description
Collation
The manuscript is formed by three quires.
- Quires 1-28 ff. 1-16
- Quire 3 ff. [16a]-21, the structure is difficult to ascertain; the position of the watermarks shows that it is not a ternion
Condition
Layout
ff. 1r-16v, 17r-20v A single column of 30 lines. 225 × 130 mm.
Hand(s)
ff. 1r-16v, 17r-20v Hand A: the text has been written by Manuel Provataris (active 1546-1570) (Μανουὴλ Προβατάρης, RGK I, 254; on him see also RGK II 350, III 418).
The text is written in brown ink; titles and initials in red.
Decoration
Thick initials in red ink, see f. 1r.
Additions
On f. 1r, in the upper margin, there is a possession note, written in red ink, of Jacob Mentel (see Provenance).
On f. 1r, in the upper margin, right, is written the shelfmark, ‘ Kk-5-7’.
Binding
Modern western binding. Paper over couched-laminate boards. Leather spine tooled in gold with title ‘ Miscellanea Graece M.S.’ and shelfmark only partially legible ‘Kk.5.6… ’.
342 × 240 × 53 mm.
The boards are loose. The textblock split in four parts, therefore the spine is broken.
History
The text was copied by Manuel Provataris in Italy around the middle of the 16th century, which the watermarks confirm.
Provenance and Acquisition
As stated in a note on f. 1r, the manuscript was part of the library of the Parisian physician Jacques Mentel (1597-1671) : ‘ Ex Bibliotheca Jacobi Mentelii V.P.C’. Near the note, probably by another hand, in red, there is a date, ‘ 1670 mense maii’. Mentel died in Paris in 1671, so the date of 1670 could indicate the time when the manuscript was acquired from his collection (see D.F. Jackson, The Greek Manuscripts of John Moore and Etienne Baluze, in Codices Manuscripti 56/57 (2006), pp. 29-41: 30).
Cambridge, University Library, Mm.1.17 was also owned by Mentel (see ownership inscription on f. 1r). That manuscript was previously owned by J.B. Hautin (probably to be identified with Jean Baptiste II Hautin, son of the French scholar and numismatist Jean-Baptiste Hautin (ca. 1580-1640) ), and it may be that MS Kk.5.7 was also owned by him.
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 977 in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now MS CUL Oo.7.50(2), compiled by Thomas Tanner after the publication of Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I (1660-1727) : donation bookplate engraved by John Pine (1690-1756) in 1736 on the left pastedown.
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Bibliography
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A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the
library of the University of Cambridge, (Cambridge, 3: Gg-Kk, Cambridge University Press, 1858)
Specimen eines Repertoriums der griechischen
Kopisten Jahrbuch der österreichischen
Byzantinistik, Gamillscheg, ErnstHarlfinger, Dieter (27, 293-322, 1978)
Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten,
800-1600 Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für
Byzantinistik, Gamillscheg, ErnstHarlfinger, Dieter (Wien, I. Grossbritannien, Verlag der Österreichischen
Akademie der
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The Greek Manuscripts of John Moore and Etienne
Baluze Codices Manuscripti, Jackson, Donald
F. (56/57, 29-42, 2006)
Byzantine medical manuscripts: towards a new
catalogue, with a specimen for an annotated checklist of
manuscripts based on an index of Diels' catalogue Byzantion: Revue internationale
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Byzantines, Touwaide, Alain (79, 453-595, 2009)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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