Shelfmark
MS 100
Author
Justin Martyr, Saint
Title
S. Justini Martyris, etc., quaedam Graece. manuscript
Publication, distribution, etc.
Italy, 1534.
Physical description
1 volume (70 leaves) : paper ; 32.5 x 23 cm.
Note
Manuscript in Greek with marginal notes in Greek and Latin, containing: St Justin Martyr, Epistola ad Zenam et Serenum (f. 1) ; Athenagoras, Legatio pro Christianis (f. 8) ; Athenagoras, De resurrectione (f. 34) ; Tatian, Oratio ad Graecos (f. 52).
Note
Titles of individual works from M. R. James as cited in the references below, with corrections.
Note
The scribe is named as Valeriano of Forlì in the colophon at the end, dated 1534.
Note
The manuscript has been investigated by Gebhardt and Harnack; see Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur as cited by M. R. James, who notes that all manuscripts of the apologetic works of Justin, Athenagoras and Tatian go back to the Parisian MS Grec 451, written by Baanes for Arethas of Caesarea, A.D. 914.
Note
The foliation above does not include endleaves.
Note
31 long lines.
Note
Collation as given by James: a⁸ bc¹⁰ d⁴ e⁶-g⁶ h¹⁰ i¹⁰.
Note
Copy of a manuscript at Bologna (plut. xxii); the unknown scribe is mentioned by Gardthausen (Griechische Paläographie, p. 341) and Graux (Essai sur les origines du fond grec de l'Escurial, pp. 189, 267).
Note
Presumably written in Italy and no doubt given to Eton by Sir Henry Wotton.
Note
The Eton manuscript was used by William Worth for his edition of Tatian (Oxford, 1700), and Dechair's Athenagoras (1706); it was collated twice for Otto, the second time by Dr Gwynne.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.1.9.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 100
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 88
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 100
Provenance
No doubt given by Sir Henry Wotton, provost of Eton 1624-1639, whose collection of manuscripts, many acquired in Venice, was left to the college.
Subject
Apologetics Manuscripts.
Subject
Manuscripts, Greek.
Added entry--name
Athenagoras, active 2nd century - ? Apologia pro Christianis.
Added entry--name
Athenagoras, active 2nd century - ? De resurrectione.
Added entry--name
Tatian, ca. 120 - 173 Oratio ad Graecos.
Added entry--name
Valeriano, da Forlì, scribe.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir former owner.
Added entry--name
Worth, William, 1677 - 1742 associated name.
Added entry--name
Dechair, Edward, ? - 1749 associated name.
Added entry--name
Otto, Johann Karl Theodor von, 1816 - 1897 associated name.
Added entry--title
On the resurrection of the dead.
Added entry--place
Italy.
Language code
grc grc lat
Identifier
B50024