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Detailed record for Arundel 526
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| Author |
Manuel Chrysoloras |
| Title |
Erotemata |
| Origin |
Italy, Central or N. (Florence or Milan) |
| Date |
between c. 1450 and 1470 |
| Language |
Greek |
| Script |
Greek minuscule |
| Scribe |
Demetrios Sgouropoulos |
| Decoration |
Foliate red headpiece (f. 1). Large and small red or dark red initials with red or dark red penwork decoration. Simple red initials. Some text in red ink. |
| Dimensions in mm |
155 x 110 (110/15 x 60) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 55 (+ ff. 53*, 54*-**) (+ unfoliated modern paper flyleaves) |
| Collation |
i-v10 (ff. 1-50); vi8 (ff. 51-55 (includes ff. 53*, 54*-54**). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1963; mounted on guards. |
| Provenance |
Written by Demetrios Sgouropoulos (see Gamillscheg and Harlfinger 1981 no. 101).
Dr. Johannes Tröster, Canon of Regensburg (inscription dated 1470, f. 55).
Erased inscription, f. 54v.
Added lines of Hildebert, bishop of Le Mans's epigram of Lucretia's last words in Latin in between the last quarter of the 16th century and the first quarter of the 17th century humanistic cursive book script, f. 55.
Willibald Pirckheimer (b. 1470, d. 1530), humanist, councillor of Nuremberg, and diplomat (inscription, f. 1).
Purchased with the Pirckheimer library from Hanns Hieronymus Imhoff by Howard in 1636.
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 1; its bookplate, f. 54**v).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Notes |
f. 55 is a parchment flyleaf with a Latin inscription, and an epigram in humanistic script. |
| Select bibliography |
Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), III, no. 3443.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: The British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 155.
H. Omont, ‘Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum’, Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), 314-350 (pp. 330-31).
Niklas Holzberg, Willibald Pirckheimer: Griechischer Humanismus in Deutschland, Humanistische Bibliothek, ed. by Ernesto Grassi, series I: Abhandlungen, vol. 41 (Munich, Fink, 1981), pp. 41, 90.
Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, ed. by Ernst Gamillscheg and Dieter Harlfinger, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik, 3-1, ed. by Herbert Hunger (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981- ), I: Handschriften aus Bibliotheken Grossbritanniens, 3 vols, no. 101.
Niklas Holzberg, Willibald Pirckheimer: Griechischer Humanismus in Deutschland (Munich: Fink, 1981), p.
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, 9. |
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f. 1
Decorated headpiece and initial |
f. 40v
Decorated initial |
f. 41
Decorated initials |
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