Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.28
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12211
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Physical Description
Collation
[i] | 1-118 | 12-158 | [ii]
Condition
Binding
Early modern western binding. Marbled paper over couched-laminate boards. Spine covered with leather, tooled in gold, with title and shelfmark.
Two small pieces of the spine, in the upper and lower part, are missing.
278 × 190 × 24 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript was owned by a certain Johannes Capella (fl. 16th century) , whose name can be read at f. 1r although it was deleted. The name of Johannes Capella appears also in the MSS Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Scal. 71, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 2516 and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 2262. Jackson (2006) identifies him as a Frenchman living during or soon after the lifetime of Angelos Bergikios (early 16th century-1569).
Given that in the manuscript there are notes by a hand found also in manuscripts which were part of John Moore's collection, and which were previously owned by a J.B. Hautin, Kk.5.28 could possibly have this provenance as well; it could have been owned by a person probably to be identified with Jean Baptiste II Hautin, son of the French scholar and numismatist Jean-Baptiste Hautin (ca. 1580-1640) .
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 985 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 f. 1r.
Part 1 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.28, ff. 1r-88v]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
TLG 0358.001
Book 1 ends at R.G. Hoche (ed.), Nicomachi Geraseni Pythagorei Introductionis arithmeticae libri II, Lipsiae 1866, p. 70 l. 15
Physical Description
Collation
Part 1 consists of 11 quaternions with one endleaf
- Quires 1-118 ff. 1-88
Condition
Layout
A single column of 19 lines. ca. 130 × 78 mm.
Hand(s)
The text was written by Angelos Bergikios (Ἄγγελος Βεργίκιος, first quarter of the 16th century-1569, RGK I, 3; on the scribe see also RGK II, 3; RGK III, 3) in an elegant and accurate minuscule script, with "baroque" features, slanting slightly to the right. The script shows many ligatures and ornamental features, such as curling flourishes at the strokes' end.
The text is written in grey ink; titles and initials in red.
Hand a: a hand datable probably in the 16th century added marginal annotations in grey ink along the text on ff. 1r-4v. The script is an informal minuscule, slanting to the right, with regular features, probably by a western European hand. It appears to be the same scribe who wrote ff. 36r and vii recto in MS Kk.5.31 (Hand C) and two marginal annotations in MS Ff.6.32 (hand a), as shown by some common features and forms, such as, for example, the ligature epsilon-ny with epsilon in the form of a single rounded stroke, and the ligature formed downward with a loop, kappa traced without removing the pen from the leaf, sometimes with a prolonged curl at the end, the ligatures with omega and alpha from below.
Decoration
On f. 1r there is a plaited frieze in red ink.
Initials in ekthesis in red ink are decorated with a vegetal motif with pearls, see e.g. f. 1r
Additions
Hand a wrote additions, corrections and scholia in the margins at ff. 1r-2r and additions and corrections at ff. 2v-5v in brown ink. They are frequently preceded by abbreviated forms of ‘γράφεται’, see e.g. f. 2r. The scholia are also accompanied by signs such as ‘*’, letters ‘α, β’, placed before them and in the text to indicate the corresponding passage e.g. ff. 1r, 2r.
On f. 1r, above the frieze, is written the name of a former owner, Johannes Capella (see Provenance).
On f. 1r, in the upper margin, a later librarian wrote the manuscript shelfmark ‘ Kk-5-28’.
History
Part 2 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.28, ff. 89r-119v]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
TLG 0358.002
ff. 119r-119v are blank
At f. 89r the chapters are numbered in the margin in red ink from ‘ α΄’ to ‘ ε΄’, and the initial of each one is written in red ink and placed in ekthesis; at f. 89v instead there are no rubrics
At f. 89v there are no rubrics
At f. 112v (ed. K. von Jan, Musici scriptores graeci (Lipsiae, 1899), p. 271 l. 16 [=par. 3]) the scribe separated the text from the previous part and wrote a title in red ink: Τοῦ αὐτοῦ Νικομάχου
Physical Description
Collation
Part II consists of 4 quaternions
- Quires 12-158 ff. 89-119
Quire signatures in Greek numerals by the hand of the scribe, in black ink, on the first leaf of each quire, recto, lower margin, centre, original to the production of the manuscript, from β΄ ( f. 97r) to γ΄( f. 105r)
Condition
Layout
A single column of 19 lines. ca. 130 × 78 mm.
Hand(s)
The text was written by Angelos Bergikios (Ἄγγελος Βεργίκιος, first quarter of the 16th century-1569, RGK I, 3; on the scribe see also RGK II, 3; RGK III, 3) in an elegant and accurate minuscule script, with "baroque" features, slanting slightly to the right. The script shows many ligatures and ornamental features, such as curling flourishes at the strokes' end.
The text is written in black ink; titles and initials in red.
Hand b: another hand added in the margins corrections, alternative readings, annotations and some diagrams, using a grey ink. The script is a minuscule, with features and forms similar to those of Bergikios'. This hand wrote also the pagination on ff. 94v-118v, as it is shown by the coincidence of the forms of the numerals, cfr. e.g. in the pagination and in the marginal annotations ‘4’ and ‘5’ on ff. 109v and 110r.
Decoration
On f. 89r there is a linear frieze with vine leaves in red ink. On f. 109r there is a small undulating linear frieze with leaves in red ink.
Initials in ekthesis in red ink are decorated with a vegetal motif with pearls, at ff. 109r, 112v.
Minor initials in red ink at f. 89r
Additions
Hand b wrote annotations in the margins alongside the text in grey ink. These are indications of topics mentioned in the text (see e.g. f. 93v), corrections of words or passages underlined in the text (see e.g. f. 94r), diagrams (see e.g ff. 93v, 98v, 99r, 99v).
History
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Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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