Shelfmark
MS 275
Author
Photius, ca. 820 - ca. 891 I, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Title
Lexicon. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Other title: Index bibliothecae Vaticanae quam postea magna librorum accessione auctam aiunt.
Varying form of title
Parallel title: Lexikon
Varying form of title
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.
Note
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.
Added entry--name
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Oxford
Language code
grc
Identifier
B46719