| New York, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division |
| NYPL Spencer Greek 050 |
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— ff. 75
— Nineteenth-century brown morocco leather over pasteboard by C. Smith; gold-stamped with Grolieresque interlace ornament. Gilt fore edge.
— Probably belonged to Rev. Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778-1841), Drury's sale, London, 1827; Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 23609; purchased by NYPL at Sotheby's auction on July 1, 1946, lot 26a, in London.
— Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, "Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America. Part II: The New York Public Library," Manuscripta 50.1 (2006) 21-76, here 63-68. |
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| Description:Parchment200 x 120. One col.; spacious margins; written in 20 lines on pages without miniatures (number of lines on pages with miniatures differs greatly); interlinear space 6mm. |
| Country:Italy | Cardinal point: |
| Region: | City: Florence |
| Assigned
Date: s. XV4/4
| Searchable Date
Range: 1475-1499 |
| Dated by
scribe: No | Inscribed Date: |
| Document: No | Number of Scribes:
1 |
| Scribe: Demetrios Damilas, a.k.a. "Librarius Florentinus" |
| Alphabet: Greek |
| Script: Humanistic |
| Figurative Decoration: 135 high-quality miniatures. |
| Other Decoration: Borders, ornamented initials in squares. |
| Notes: Copied ca. 1478-1490: time during which scribe was known to live in Florence. The first quire has only six folios and is signed with a letter stigma (no. 6), which means that the manuscript has lost the first five quires and part of the sixth. |
| Number of Texts: 2 |
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| Author: Aesop |
| Title: Αἰσώπου μῦθοι |
| Title: Fables |
| Incipit: Ἀετὸς καὶ ἀλώπηξ φιλιωθέντες |
| Explicit: τοιαύτης ἀπονέμουσι χάριτας (end of fable Λύκος καὶ Γέρανος) |
| Language(s): Greek |
| Notes: Lacunae: between ff. 16v and 17r: κἄν ἐμὲ λάθητε τὸν// <ἀνα>//λισκομένους ὁρῶντες ἒφασαν…; between ff. 24v and 25r:…οἰκείαν ἐπιγνοίη ζητοῦσα// //οὗτος ἐστὶν ὅν ἀπώλεσεν…; between ff. 36v and 37r:…ὑπ' ἐκείνων ἀπόλλυνται. ὗς καὶ κύων; btw. ff. 73v and 74r |
| Status of Text: Fables 1-138 |
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| Author: Ignatios the Deacon |
| Title: Tetrasticha iambica |
| Incipit: Σῦς εἷλκε τις μῦν, ἒργον |
| Explicit: ὅτι τὸ ἀμφίβολον |
| Language(s): Greek |
| Notes: Bk 1, poem 8: Σῦς καὶ μῦς; Bk 1, poem 19: Ὄνος; Bk 1, poem 22: Στρουθὸς. Lacuna between ff. 40v and 41r:Ἐπιθύμιον, Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι τὸ ἀμφίβολον// χελιδὼν καὶ κορώνη |
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