Shelfmark
MS 142
Author
Uniform title
[Cyropaedia]
Title
Xenophon, Cyropaedia, etc. (in Greek). manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Xenophontis Cyropaedeia et Anabasis Graece
Publication, distribution, etc.
ca. 1300-ca. 1399?
Physical description
1 volume (178 leaves) : paper ; 30.5 x 20.5 cm.
Note
Manuscript on paper, in Greek, of the Cyropedia of Xenophon (ff. 1-100), followed by thirty medieval iambic verses of a moralising tendency (f. 100v) and by the Anabasis of Xenophon (ff. 101-178).
Note
This manuscript was used for the text of Hutchinson's edition of the Anabasis in 1735, and is frequently quoted from Hutchinson, e.g. by J. G. Schneider in his edition (Oxford, 1821). It was collated for Hutchinson by John Burton, fellow of Eton.
Note
Hypothetical date suggested by M. R. James, as cited in the references below.
Note
The incipit and explicit of the iambic verses are printed by M. R. James; the colophon of the Anabasis is transcribed by him in the interleaved, annotated copy of his Descriptive catalogue at ECL (MS 932).
Note
Written space not noted by M. R. James.
Note
Collation from M. R. James: 1-10¹⁰ ; 1-7¹⁰ 8⁸ (8 blank).
Note
29 long lines.
Note
Written in a fine hand, described by M. R. James in an annotation in the interleaved, annotated copy of his Descriptive catalogue as small and 'flat', the epsilon lying back as in the 'Leicester' scribe's writing.
Note
Each book has a title ornamented in red.
Note
Secundo folio not recorded by M. R. James.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.4.15.
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), 142
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 126
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 142
Additional physical form available
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 288 or SN 0822.03
Provenance
No doubt bequeathed to Eton in 1639 by Sir Henry Wotton.
Subject
Xenophon Manuscripts.
Subject
History, Ancient Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Xenophon Anabasis.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir former owner.
Language code
grc
Identifier
B50104