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Shelfmark

MS 275

Author

Photius, ca. 820 - ca. 891 I, Patriarch of Constantinople.

Title

Lexicon. manuscript.

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Other title: Index bibliothecae Vaticanae quam postea magna librorum accessione auctam aiunt.

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Parallel title: Lexikon

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Bibliotheca

Publication, distribution, etc.

Oxford, England, 1710s.

Physical description

1 volume (350 pages) : paper ; 41 x 27 cm.

Note

Devised title. Referred to as 'Lexicon Gr.' in Topham Finding Aid 4, fol. 80r.

Note

According to Paul Quarrie, a copy by Joseph Bowles of the Codex Galeanus now at Trinity College, Cambridge (see Quarrie, 'Richard Topham of Windsor and his library', Evtopia, 2:1 (1993), p. 13) . No internal evidence to show that Bowles was copyist.

Note

Place and date of production inferred from the ascribed copying by Joseph Bowles for Richard Topham.

Note

The main text is paginated, 1-344.

Note

Written in two columns; ruled in pencil throughout.

Note

Topham stamp on first page of text and on rear board: bequeathed to Eton College by Richard Topham in 1736. Listed by him in Finding Aid 4, fol. 80r.

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Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.

Note

Previous Eton shelfmarks: Bg.1.6, Bf.1.1.

Binding

18th century mid-brown reverse calf; blind tooled double fillet border; second blind tooled triple fillet frame with swag and flower rolls; blind tooled flower roll on board edges; brown morocco spine label with gold tooled title and triple fillet; six raised bands; deckled edges.

Subject

Greek language, Medieval and late Dictionaries.

Subject

Greek language Dictionaries Early works to 1800.

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England Oxford

Language code

grc

Identifier

B46719
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