MS 275
Photius, ca. 820 - ca. 891 I, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Lexicon. manuscript.
Other title: Index bibliothecae Vaticanae quam postea magna librorum accessione auctam aiunt.
Parallel title: Lexikon
Bibliotheca
Oxford, England, 1710s.
1 volume (350 pages) : paper ; 41 x 27 cm.
Devised title. Referred to as 'Lexicon Gr.' in Topham Finding Aid 4, fol. 80r.
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.
Place and date of production inferred from the ascribed copying by Joseph Bowles for Richard Topham.
The main text is paginated, 1-344.
Written in two columns; ruled in pencil throughout.
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.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Previous Eton shelfmarks: Bg.1.6, Bf.1.1.
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.
Greek language, Medieval and late Dictionaries.
Greek language Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
England Oxford
grc
B46719