Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.37
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12214
Contents
Language(s): Greek and Latin
Physical Description
Binding
Rebound in February 1962 by Douglas Cockerell and Son in Letchworth, according to a note inside the left board. Brown quarter leather and patterned paper covering over millboards, with plain pastedowns. There are two black leather labels on the spine with the classmark and the author's name ‘Constantinus Manasses’ tooled in gold. Labels from a previous binding, bearing the classmark and the author's name, tooled in gold, are pasted inside the left-hand board.
246 × 187 × 43 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by John Moore (b. 1646, d. 1714), bishop of Ely : number 996 in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now MS Oo.7.50(2), compiled by Thomas Tanner after the publication of Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697).
Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I .
Part 1 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.37, ff. 1-150]
Contents
TLG 3074.005
ff. 149v-150v are blank.
Physical Description
Collation
The manuscript consists of 19 quires, of which one is a ternion and the rest are quaternia.
- Quires 1-188 ff. 1-144
- Quire 196 ff. 145-150
Condition
Layout
A single column of 22-24 lines. 160 × 95 mm.
Hand(s)
The manuscript has been copied by Hand A, in a mixed minuscule script, upright or slanting slightly to the right, in brown ink, with only slight variation in letter size.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings usually appear only at the ends of lines, but occasionally in mid-line. Breathings are round and mute iota is absent. There is decorative use of the double dot, and accentuation of all nomina sacra , which occasionally appear in uncontracted form (e.g. f. 1v, line 11, ‘Θεοῦ’). Accents are sometimes joined to letters.
The modern eta, modern nu, sigma telikon and loop epsilon are present.
Punctuation used includes the middle and upper points, lower comma and full stop.
Decoration
A crude vegetative vignette in red ink precedes the beginning of the text (f. 1r).
A small major initial in red ink, with simple ornament, marks the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Minor initials in red ink mark the beginning of each section.
Vertical scrolling decoration and asterisks follow the end of the text (f. 149r)
Additions
History
Part 2 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.37, f. 97 bis]
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
A single column of 36 lines. 165-182 × 110-120 mm.
Hand(s)
The Latin text and Greek quotations are in an early modern Western hand.
History
Additional Information
Availability
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Bibliography
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A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge, (Cambridge, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1858)
Zu eliminierende Handschriften der Chronike Synopsis von Konstantinos Manasses. Erste
Auswahl Πλάτων: Δέλτιον της Εταιρείας Ελλήνων Φιλολόγων, Lampsidēs, Odysseus (32, 1980, 131-135)
Constantini Manassis Breviarium chronicum, (Athens, Institutum Graecoromanae Antiquitatis, Academiae Atheniensis, 1996)
The Greek Manuscripts of John Moore and Etienne Baluze Codices Manuscripti, , (56/57, 2006, 29-42)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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Abbreviations
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