Shelfmark
MS 139
Author
Uniform title
[Iliad]
Title
Homer, Iliad (in Greek). manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Homeri Iliadis libri V. Graece
Publication, distribution, etc.
Italy, ca. 1200-ca. 1340?
Physical description
1 volume (76 leaves) : parchment ; 30.5 x 22.5 cm.
Note
Books 1-5 of the Iliad in Greek, ending at book 5, verse 84.
Note
M. R. James dated the manuscript to the 13th century; in the interleaved, annotated copy of his Descriptive catalogue at ECL (MS 932) this is corrected to the 12th century in a note recording the findings of T. W. Allen who saw the manuscript in June 1913. A further note by N. G. Wilson dated 28 June 1978 dates the hand to ca. 1300-1340.
Note
The first part of the scholia are in the same hand as the text; from the middle of book 2 (f. 35v) the scholia are continued by a smaller darker hand giving extracts from Eustathius inter alia. This hand is dated by T. W. Allen to possibly the 13th century and by N. G. Wilson to the second half the 15th century, as cited above.
Note
Written space not recorded by M. R. James.
Note
The lines per page vary from 8 or less at first, to 22 lines on a full page; up to 55 lines of scholia.
Note
Collation: 1-8⁸ 9⁸ wants 5-8 (cancelled).
Note
Title in gold on f. 1; in book 2, the space for a heading is left blank on f. 23.
Note
Initials in red.
Note
On blank f. 76v there is a 16-line inscription carefully scribbled over and partially obscured by the bookplate.
Note
The hand is described in the note by N. G. Wilson as cited above, as a well known style of the Palaeologan period.
Note
Secundo folio not recorded by M. R. James.
Note
Presumably written in Italy.
Note
Much stained in parts.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.4.12.
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), 139
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 78
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 139
Provenance
No doubt bequeathed to Eton by Sir Henry Wotton in 1639.
Subject
Homer Iliad
Subject
Manuscripts, Greek.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy.
Language code
grc
Identifier
B50101