Shelfmark
MS 144
Author
Athanasius Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria
Title
S. Athanasii Synopsis, etc., Graece. manuscript
Publication, distribution, etc.
between ca. 1400 and ca. 1600.
Physical description
1 volume (vi, 424, viii leaves) : paper ; 29 x 22 cm.
Note
Manuscript on paper, in Greek.
Note
[1] Synopsis Sacrae Scripturae attributed to St Athanasius ; [2] Synopsis de prophetis, de apostolis, de LXXII discipulis of Pseudo-Dorotheus ; [3] Synopsis Chronikē apo Adam eōs Alexiou tou Komnēnou ; [4] Synodikon ; [5] Sophronii kata pasēs aireseōs liber ; [6] Anastasii per pisteōs liber ; [7] Gelasii Cyziceni syntagma tōn en Nikaia ; [8] Praktika tēs en Ephesō synodou ; [9] Nicephori Epistola ad Leonem.
Note
[1] The Synopsis Sacrae Scripturae attributed to St Athanasius was first printed at Heidelberg in 1600 among the works of Athanasius.
Note
The Eton MS is probably the copy used for the 1600 edition, where the source is described by the editor, Falckmann, as a codex "ex bibliotheca viri clarissimi Petri Neveleti Doschii" on the evidence of the inscription on f. 1. See M. R. James as cited in the references below.
Note
[2] The Synopsis de prophetis, etc., pseudo-epigraphically attributed to Dorotheus of Tyre, was first printed by Froben at Basel in 1557 in a collection in Latin of the works of the Ecclesiastical Historians, edited by Joachim Camerarius.
Note
[3] The Synopsis Chronikē only seems to extend as far as Cleopatra.
Note
[4] Synodikon : from the Apostolic Council to the Council of Nicaea.
Note
Watermarks include: pair of scales; pair of shears open ; demi lion in profile facing left a crescent star of six points; toothed wheel and crank. See interleaved, annotated copy of M. R. James's Descriptive catalogue as cited above.
Note
Paginated 1-336, then foliated 1-257.
Note
Collation by M. R. James in the interleaved, annotated copy of his Descriptive catalogue at ECL (MS 932): a⁶ (1 pasted down) 1-14⁸ 15⁴ 16-53⁸ 54⁴ b⁸ (7 pasted down, 8 wanting?).
Note
Quires 1-9, 15, 22-54 are by the scribe Doukas; quires 10-14 in another hand; quires 16-21 in double columns of 29 lines, in another hand.
Note
Varying numbers of lines to a page.
Note
Secundo folio not recorded by M. R. James.
Note
The inscriptions of several previous owners are transcribed by M. R. James from the first leaf: "Ioannis [Heruagii] beneficio D. Ioan. Gastii 1550"; "F. N. Neueleti" (corrected in MS 932 to "I. N." for Isaac Nicholas, and with note of erased inscription "Petri Neueleti ..."); "Ex libris Danielis Mauclerc doct. iur. Victoriacensis [of Vitry-le-François] 1665 (?1685)"; "Ex libris Jac. Mauclerc, M.D., 1700"; "Ex libris Joh. Hen. Mauclerc, M.D., 1748".
Note
Presented by Joh. Hen. Mauclerc to the Rev. R. Huggett, librarian of the college.
Note
Several letters and notes about the contents in the hand of Joh. Hen. Mauclerc, including note on the flyleaves on the two Johns of Ragusa; see interleaved, annotated copy of M. R. James's Descriptive catalogue as cited above.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.5.13.
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), 144
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 144
Provenance
Given to Roger Huggett, librarian at Eton College, by John Henry Mauclerc in or after 1748; previously owned by James Mauclerc (fl. 1700), Daniel Mauclerc (fl. 1665 or 1685); Isaac Nicolaus Nevelet; Pierre Nevelet; Johann Herwagen; Johannes Gast.
Binding
Boards covered in old patterned paper over paste-boards with leather reinforcements at head and foot, and marbled paper reinforecements at fore-edges; parchment spine with manuscript spine title in a 16th-century hand "MSS. Libri Græci, Rerum Ecclesiasticar."; two clasps.
Subject
Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Huggett, Roger, c1711 - 1769 former owner.
Added entry--name
Nevelet, Isaac Nicolaus, b. 1590 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Nevelet, Pierre, ca. 1550 - ca. 1610 former owner.
Added entry--name
Mauclerc, James former owner.
Added entry--name
Mauclerc, John Henry, 1700 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Gast, Johannes, ? - 1552 former owner.
Added entry--name
Herwagen, Johann, 1497 - 1559? former owner.
Language code
grc
Identifier
B50109