Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.6.27
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12217
Contents
Language(s): Greek
cf. TLG 5037.001
followed by the list of characters of the play
All verso folios are blank
TLG 0003.001
Physical Description
Collation
Condition
Layout
ff. 4v-44r: A single column of 30-40 lines. 160 × 110 mm.
Hand(s)
The hypothesis and text of Ajax are transcribed by a western hand from the second half of the 17th century. Abbreviations and ligatures are almost completely absent; only the stigma for sigma-tau and omicron-ypsilon are present. The writing is characterized by my, traced from a u with the addition of a hook. The acute and grave accents are occasionally placed above the letter following the correct vowel. The writing could be that of the English author and translator Thomas Stanley (1625-1678) .
Additions
Fragments of an account book added on ff. 2r and 44v, dated 1683 and 1684.
On f. 49v is written ‘ciaconii de bello dacico’, probably a reference to Historia utriusque belli dacici a Traiano Caesare gesti (Rome, 1576) by Alphonsus Ciacconius (Alfonso Chacón, 1540-1599).
Binding
Binding of the late 17th or early 18th century in pale brown full leather covering over millboards.
The title is tooled in gold on the spine: Sophocles. There is decorative tooling on spine and on the board edge.
198 × 159 × 17 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 672 (left outside cover) in 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.
Additional Information
Record Sources
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, 3, Cambridge University Press, 1858)
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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Abbreviations
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