Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.8
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12203
Contents
Language(s): Greek
f. 29v is blank
Vita Tzetziana e codd. Laur. gr. 31.3, Ambros. gr. C 222 inf., Vat. gr. 1345
A. Colonna, 'De vita Oppiani antiquissima', in: Bollettino del comitato per la preparazione dell'edizione nazionale dei classici greci e latini 12 (1964), p. 40
TLG 4172.006
The text starts at U.C. Bussemaker, 'Scholia et paraphrases in Nicandrum et Oppianum', in: Scholia in Theocritum, ed. F. Dübner, Paris 1849, pp. 260-364, p. 260 l. 5; it does not correspond precisely to the printed edition
- ff. 3r-10r Scholia on book 1
- ff. 10v-16r Scholia on book 2
- ff. 16r-20v Scholia on book 3
- ff. 21r-25r Scholia on book 4
- ff. 25r-29r Scholia on book 5
TLG 5032.002
K. Wendel, Scholia in Theocritum vetera, Leipzig 1914, pp. 1-352, sections Aa and Ba
TLG 5038.001
The text, as in other manuscripts, is attributed to Theodosius Alexandrinus , but is is believed to be spurious, see Uhlig (1883), p. XXXIX
See, attributed to the same Theodosius, G. Uhlig, Grammatici Graeci, 1.1, Leipzig 1883 (repr. Hildesheim 1965), pp. 105-132 (TLG 0072.001): only the beginning however is the same
f. 30v is blank
Physical Description
Collation
The quires are sewn tightly, and there are no signatures or catchwords, therefore the collation has been reconstructed with the help of the watermarks.
- one endleaf f. i
- Quires 1-210 ff. 2-21
- Quire 38 ff. 22-29
- Quire 412 ff. 30-41
- Quire 52 ff. 42-43
Condition
Layout
A single column of 39-42 lines. 260 × 135-140 mm.
Hand(s)
ff. 2r, 3r-29r, 30r, 31r-40v Hand A: the text has been written entirely in a minuscule script slightly slanting to the right, by a scribe who probably had a western-European origin, as showed, besides the script, by the fact that he wrote a colophon in Latin.
The text is written in brown ink.
Additions
On f. 1r the shelfmark ‘ Kk.5.8’ is written in pencil.
On f. 2r, in the upper part of the leaf, right, is written the shelfmark ‘ Kk.5.8’ in brown ink.
On f. 2v, there is a list of the contents of the manuscript in the hand which recurs in the manuscripts owned by J.B. Hautin (see Provenance): ‘ Scholia in Oppiani halieutica Theodosius grammaticus de prosodia’.
Binding
Modern western binding. Paper over couched-laminate boards. Leather spine tooled in gold with title ‘ Miscellanea Graece M.S.’ and shelfmark only partially readable ‘Kk.5.6… ’.
342 × 240 × 53 mm.
A leather page marker is placed on f. 30 to open the book where a new text begins.
The boards are loose. The textblock split in four parts, the spine is broken.
History
On f. 30r the scribe wrote a colophon with the date of November 1592, which refers only to the second text of the manuscript; however, since the first text has been written by the same hand on the same kind of paper (see Watermarks), it can be assumed that the whole manuscript originated around 1592. It was probably copied in France, as the watermarks suggest.
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript was owned by a certain 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) : on f. 2v there is a small table of contents, written by the hand, which occurs in almost all Hautin's manuscripts (see also Jackson 2006, p. 30).
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 978 in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now MS Oo.7.50(2), compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735) 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)
The Greek Manuscripts of John Moore and Etienne Baluze Codices Manuscripti, Jackson, Donald F. (56/57, 29-42, 2006)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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