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Pindari Quaedam et Sopho[...] MS.
1420-1425
Greek manuscript on paper containing works by Pindar, Dionysius Periegetes, and Sophocles. Manuscript is bound in early nineteenth-century binding of half vellum and paste paper over paste board sewn in seven cords.
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Metadata
- Publisher
- [Constantinople ?], ca. 1420-1425]
- Language
- Ancient Greek
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Item Summary
Greek manuscript on paper containing works by Pindar, Dionysius Periegetes, and Sophocles. Manuscript is bound in early nineteenth-century binding of half vellum and paste paper over paste board sewn in seven cords.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Pindari Quaedam et Sopho[...] MS.
- Call Number
- Princeton MS. 218
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/h415pk90x
- Publisher
- [Constantinople ?], ca. 1420-1425]
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Date Created
- 1420-1425
- Extent
- 135 folios : paper ; 201 x 142 (150 x 55-75) mm. bound to 207 x 151 mm.
- Provenance
- In 1883, the manuscript was in the library of Baron Frédéric-Edouard de Turckheim à Dachstein (1829-1909), whose engraved bookplate is on the front pastedown. Shelfmark "B 334."
- Source Acquisition
- Purchase: Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, 2010. AM 2011-29.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Contents
- fols. 1r-38v, Pindar (c. 522-443 BC), Olympian Odes I-XIV, with interlinear glosses and occasional marginal commentaries. Cf. E. Abel, ed. Scholia recenta in Pindari Epinicia (Budapest, 1891), 52-428.
- fol. 38v, outer margin, biographical note on Dionysius Periegetes, "Dionysios ho Periēgētēs hyios Dionysiou Alexandreōs." Cf. K. Müller, Geographi Graeci minores (Paris, 1882), vol. 2, xvi.
- fols. 38v-67v, "Dionysiou Alexandreias Periēgētou." Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the World. E. Amato, ed., Descrizione della terra abitata (Milan, 2005); with interlinear glosses and marginal commentaries. Cf. Müller, vol. 2, 427-457.
- fols. 68r-69v, Anonymous Biography of Sophocles. W. Dindorf, ed., Scholia in Sophoclis tragoedias septem (Oxford, 1852), 1-8.
- fols. 69v-70v, Argument (summary) of Sophocles, Ajax. Dindorf, 25-28.
- fol. 70v, Anonymous note on comedy. Cf. W. J. W. Koster, Prolegomena de comoedia (Groningen, 1975), 16.
- fols. 70v-71r, Anonymous note on literary theory. Cf. C. Walz, ed., Rhetores Graeci (Stuttgart, 1832-6), vol. 3, 728.
- fols. 71r-102v, Sophocles (c. 497/6-407/6 BC), Ajax, with interlinear glosses and occasional marginal commentaries. Cf. Dindorf, 196-238.
- fols. 102v-103r, Argument (summary) of Sophocles, Electra. Dindorf, 29-30.
- fols. 103r-135v, Sophocles, Electra, with interlinear gloss and occasional marginal commentaries. Cf. Dindorf, 243-277.
- Notes
- Spine title.
- Ms. codex.
- Physical description: Manuscript is written on 21 lines per page in a brownish ink with interlinear glosses and marginal commentaries in the scribal hand in a red faded ink; nota bene hands and large ornamental initial letters on several pages.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 278
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1688ff48-cb14-41d2-a687-53729a6ba5ec/manifest