Harley MS 5604

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Date
15th century-16th century

Title
Heron, Geoponica.

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Harley MS 5604, ff 1-20v

Heron, Geoponica with diagrams.

Harley MS 5604, ff 20v-164

Geoponica in 20 Books. Codex F in Needham's 1704 edn.

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Languages
Greek, Ancient

Physical Description
  • Paper (w.m. Crossbow in double circle with star). ff. 164. 330 x 230 (225 x 125) mm. Ruling Leroy 20D1, 28-30 lines. B.M. binding (18th cent.).
  • Scribe (ff. 34-41v) identified as Ioannes Seueros Lakedaimonios (Repertorium I 181), not Antonios Episkopopoulos (Repertorium I 24).

Ownership
Owned by Sir John Cotton, 3rd Bart. Presented to the Harleian Library by William Hanbury, a Trustee of the Cotton Library, 26 Aug. 1723 (f. 1*; Diary p.252 n.2; Fontes p.178).

Bibliography
  • A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p.280;
  • Geoponica sive Cassiani Bassi Scholastici de re rustica eclogae, ed. H. Beckh, Leipzig 1895pp.17-19, 55-59;
  • Beckh Geoponica p.xxxviii.
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