Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.27
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12210
Contents
Language(s): Greek
- f. 96v Part II
- f. 112r Part III
TLG 4019.004
Physical Description
Collation
At the beginning of the manuscript, after a later endleaf, there are 5 quaternions and a binion with a missing folio (without loss of text). The quires have been sewn very tightly; where the signatures are missing, it is therefore not possible to determine the structure with confidence.
- f. [i]
- Quires 1-58 ff. 1-40( α-ε)
- Quire 6 4-1 ff. 41-43( ζ)
- ff. 44-147 [ii]-[iii]( η)
Condition
Layout
ff. 1r-147v A single column of 23 lines. 205 × 110 mm.
Hand(s)
ff. 1r-147v Hand A: the text has been written by an anonymous scribe, whose script can be dated in the first half of the 16th century. It is a minuscule, fairly regular in size, slightly slanting to the right, characterized by a shading effect due to the presence of thicker and slender lines. A certain rigidity, the forms of some letters, in particular of beta (see f. 91v l. 18), epsilon, tau, eta, appear tο be influenced by the Latin script, therefore it could be the Greek script of a western European hand, considering also that the scribe ends his work with a Latin word, ‘ finis’ (f. 147v).
The text is written in brown ink.
Hand a: in the margins there are passim corrections and additions by a contemporary hand, a minuscule script with "baroque" features, showing numerous ligatures, comparable to the scripts of Greek scribes working in Fontainebleau in the 16th century, such as Konstantinos Palaiokappas and Iakobos Diassorinos.
Additions
Hand A wrote a few notes in the margins, e.g. f. 64r.
Hand a wrote in the margins corrections, additions and variants to the text, e.g. ff. 36v, 54v.
In the margin of f. 120v, under an addition to the text by hand a, there is a Latin annotation ‘Haec inclusa superflua sunt, licet in exemplari sint Regio’. The ‘Regius exemplar’ is probably to be identified as MS Par. gr. 1822, from which MS Kk.5.27 derives (Westerink 1956, p. vii) and which was part of the French Royal Library in Fontainebleau.
There is another Latin annotation, by another hand, on f. [ii] verso.
On some leaves there are black marks, rather faded, pointing at the text: one seems to be an annotation. See ff. 16r, 66v, 102v.
On the left pastedown and on the upper margin, right, of f. 1r is written the manuscript's shelfmark.
Binding
Modern western binding. Paper over couched-laminate boards. Leather spine tooled in gold with title ‘ Olimpiod: In Alcibiadem’ and shelfmark ‘ Kk.5.27’.
299 × 226 × 34 mm.
History
The text was copied in the 16th century, as script and watermarks indicate, certainly after 1535, when Angelos Bergikios signed the exemplar of the manuscript (Westerink (1956), p. vii), MS Par. gr. 1822.
Provenance and Acquisition
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 972 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)
Olympiodorus, Commentary on the first
Alcibiades of Plato, (Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1956)
The Greek Manuscripts of John Moore and Etienne
Baluze Codices Manuscripti, , (56/57, 29-42, 2006)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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