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MS 141

Author

Uniform title

[Geography. Books 1-10.]

Title

Strabo, Geographia (Books 1-10, in Greek). manuscript

Varying form of title

Title in M. R. James catalogue: Strabonis Geographicorum libri X. Graece

Varying form of title

Geographicorum libri X. Graece

Publication, distribution, etc.

Constantinople, ca. 1447.

Physical description

1 volume (300 leaves) : paper ; 29.5 x 21.5 cm.

Note

Books 1-10 of Strabo's Geography; the second volume of the MS containing books 11-16 is in the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence, Laur. 28.15.

Note

The Eton MS was used in Falconer's edition of Strabo (Oxford, 1807). See T. W. Allen, 'MSS. of Strabo at Paris and Eton', The Classical Quarterly 9:1 (Jan. 1915), pp. 15-26; Aubrey Diller, 'The scholia on Strabo', Traditio 10 (1954), pp. 29-50, where this manuscript is designated 'n'.

Note

Books 1-9 derived from a copy of the second half of the 10th century, now in Paris, gr. 1397 (see Diller, op. cit.).

Note

Watermark: pair of scissors.

Note

Written space not recorded in M. R. James.

Note

Collation from M. R. James: 1¹⁰ wants 1, blank, 2-8¹⁰ 9⁴ 10-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14⁶ + 6* 15¹⁰ 16¹⁴ 17-20¹⁰ 21¹² + 2 between 10 and 12 (end of book 7) 22-26¹⁰ 27¹⁰ (9 cancelled) 28⁸ 29-30¹⁰ 31¹⁰ (2 cancelled).

Note

28 long lines; the first page of text written in a larger hand (10 lines).

Note

The quires are marked on the upper right corner of the first leaf, and in the lower margin of the last leaf.

Note

The hand changes after f. 81 for two leaves, of which the first has 39 lines to the page and the second has 29 lines on the recto and 22 on the verso, but the writing is by the original scribe and the marginal notes do not differ from elsewhere in the books. The changes of hand are described in M. R. James as cited in the references below, and in T. W. Allen (1915) as cited above.

Note

There are cancelled leaves after ff. 122, 263 and 293; f. 300v is blank.

Note

Secundo folio not recorded by M. R. James.

Note

Rebound in the 18th century; at the beginning is a parchment leaf with a contents nots in Latin in a 17th-century hand.

Note

The scribe is Theodorus Agallianus, who copied out the Eton MS for Ciriaco d'Ancona in Constantinople in 1447 according to Diller.

Note

Unusually full marginal notes in pink, blue, green, yellow, purple and black ink, in four distinct hands: a small 15th-century hand, probably that of Agellianus, including notes on omissions in the archetype; a flowing hand mostly in yellow, sometimes restored in green, that of Ciriaco; a small somewhat shaky 15th-century hand correcting omissions; and a small stiff 16th-century hand, later than Ciriaco.

Note

Allen (op. cit., p. 26) suggests one of the later hands may be that of Pietro [i.e. Bernardo?] Bembo based on the provenance of other MSS at Eton with a similar provenance.

Note

Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.4.14.

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), 141

Citation/references note

Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 116

Cite as

Eton College Library, MS 141

Additional physical form available

Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 3860

Provenance

Belonged to Ciriaco d'Ancona, and probably later to Bernardo Bembo.

Provenance

No doubt bequeathed to Eton in 1639 by Sir Henry Wotton.

Binding

18th century calf.

Subject

Strabo Geography

Subject

Geography, Ancient Manuscripts.

Added entry--name

Ciriaco, 1391 - 1452 d'Ancona former owner.

Added entry--name

Added entry--name

Bembo, Pietro, 1470 - 1547 associated name.

Added entry--name

Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir former owner.

Added entry--name

Added entry--place

Turkey Istanbul.

Language code

grc

Identifier

B50103
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