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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

Subject

History, Ancient Manuscripts.

Added entry--name

Xenophon Anabasis.

Added entry--name

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

Language code

grc

Identifier

B50104
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