| New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
| Plimpton MS 003 |
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| | Description:
— ff. 335 (modern foliation); ff. 208
— Two volumes
— Bound since in 1936 in wooden boards; formerly bound, ca. 1835, in English Russia leather.
— Owned, s. XVI, by the Franciscan house of S. Francesco della Vigna, Venice; Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805); Rev. Walter Sneyd; E. Rahir, Paris; Herman C. Hoskier (sale, London 1908), Joseph (Giuseppe) Martini Cat. 9 (1912); George A. Plimpton.
— De Ricci, pp. 1754-7155. |
| | Acknowledgments: Dr. Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann kindly supplied the information for this description. |
| | Number of Parts: 2
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1: ff. 1r - 332v
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| Description:Paper280 x 190. 30-31 lines. |
| Country:Italy | Cardinal point: northeastern |
| Region: Veneto | City: Venice |
| Assigned
Date: s. XVex
| Searchable Date
Range: 1485-1499 |
| Dated by
scribe: No | Inscribed Date: |
| Document: No | Number of Scribes:
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| Scribe: Damiano Guidotto |
| Alphabet: Greek |
| Script: Humanistic minuscule. |
| Notes: Copied from the editio princeps of Homer (Florence, not before 13 Jan. 1488/89; Hain-Copinger 8772; Goff H-300); foliation begins afresh with each new text. |
| Number of Texts: 7 |
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| Author: Demetrios Chalcondyles |
| Title: Δημήτριος ὁ Χαλkονδύλης τοῖς ἐντευξομένοις εὐ (sic) πράττειν. |
| Docket: Prefatory treatise written for the #editio princeps# of Iliad and Odyssey (Florence, 1489) |
| Incipit: (f. 2r) Μάλιστα μὲν τιμᾶν τε καὶ ἄγασθαι… |
| Explicit: (f. 3v) …δυνατοὶ ἂν εἶεν οὕτω τυγχάνειν. |
| Language(s): Greek |
| Notes: ff. 1-3v, D. Chalcondyles, dedication to Piero dei Medici & preface; ff. 4-8v, 33-37v, Pseudo Herodotes, Life of Homer; ff. 37v-40v, 9-32v, 41-63, Pseudo Plutarch, Life of Homer; ff. 63-65v, Dio Chrysostom, De Homero; ff. 66-70 blank; f. 70v, D. Guidotto. |
| Status of Text: Quires 2-4 (ff. 9-32v) misbound. |
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7: ff. 37v-40v, 9r-32v, 41r-63r |
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| Author: Pseudo Plutarch |
| Title: Vita Homeri (Πλουτάρχου εἰς τὸν βίον τοῦ Ὁμήρου.) |
| Incipit: (f. 37v) Περιττὸν ἴσως δόξειέ τισι πολυπραγμονεῖν… |
| Explicit: (f. 63r) …τὰ ἔπη μεταθέντες καὶ συνείροντες. |
| Language(s): Greek |
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| Author: Pseudo Herodotus |
| Title: Vita Homeri (Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνασῆσος ἐξήγησις περὶ τῆς τοῦ Ὁμήρου γενέσιος καὶ βιοτῆς.) |
| Incipit: (f. 4r) Ἡρόδοτος ὁ Ἁλικαρνασεὺς περὶ Ὁμήρου γενέσιος… |
| Explicit: f. 37v) γέγονεν Ὅμηρος ἔτεσιν ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα ὀκτώ. |
| Language(s): Greek |
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| Author: Dio Chrysostom |
| Title: Oratio 53, De Homero (Περὶ Ὁμήρου λόγος ἠγαίωνος (sic) Χρυσοστόμου.) |
| Incipit: (f. 63r) Ὁ μὲν Δημόκρητος (sic) περὶ Ὁμήρου φησὶν… |
| Explicit: (f. 65v) ὑπερορᾷ πατὴρ τῶν ἀνθρώπων καλεῖσθαι.Τέλος. |
| Language(s): Greek |
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| Author: Damiano Guidotto |
| Title: Ἐπιγράμματα εἰς τοῦ Ὁμήρου… (see full text in the colophon in Notes) |
| Title: Epigrams |
| Incipit: Ἕσπετε τοῦδε μόνως λαοί… |
| Explicit: …ἀεὶ φαίδιμον ἡμετέροις. |
| Language(s): Greek |
| Notes: Colophon: Ἐπιγράμματα εἰς τοῦ Ὁμήρου ἔναισιν (sic, for αἴνεσιν) διὰ τὸν Δαμιάνον Γουίδοτον τὸν ἕνετον πεποιημένα καὶ τοῦτο τὸ βιβλίον καὶ τῆς Ὀδυσσείας γεγραφότα |
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| Title: Hypothesis in the First Book of the Iliad (Ὑπόθεσις α’ τοῦ Ὁμήρου ῥαψωδίας.) |
| Incipit: Χρύσης ἱερεὺς Ἀπόλλωνος… |
| Explicit: παιδὸς τιμωρίαν αἰτεῖται. |
| Language(s): Greek |
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| Author: Homer |
| Title: Iliad ( Ἰλιάδος α’ Ὁμήρου ῥαψωδίας) |
| Incipit: (f. 71r) Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ… |
| Explicit: (f. 332r) … τάφον Ἕκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο. Τέλος τῆς τοῦ Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάδος. |
| Language(s): Latin |
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| Description:Paper280 x 190. 30-31 Lines |
| Country:Italy | Cardinal point: northeastern |
| Region: Veneto | City: Venice |
| Assigned
Date: s. XVex
| Searchable Date
Range: 1485-1499 |
| Dated by
scribe: No | Inscribed Date: |
| Document: No | Number of Scribes:
1 |
| Scribe: Damiano Guidotto |
| Alphabet: Greek |
| Script: Humanistic minuscule |
| Notes: Copied from the #editio princeps# of Homer (Florence, not before 13 Jan. 1488/89; Hain-Copinger 8722; Goff H-300) |
| Number of Texts: 2 |
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| Author: Eustathius Thessalonicensis |
| Title: Hypothesis to the first book of the Odyssey (Ὑπόθεσις α’ Ὁμήρου Ὀδυσσείας) |
| Title: Commentarii ad Homeri Odysseam |
| Incipit: Θεῶν ἀγορὰ γίνεται… |
| Explicit: …μνηστήρων γίνεται εὐωχία. |
| Language(s): Greek |
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| Author: Homer |
| Title: Odyssey (Ὀδυσσείας α Ὁμήρου) |
| Incipit: (f.1r) Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε Μοῦσα… |
| Explicit: (f. 206r) …δέμας ἠδὲ καὶ αὐδήν. Τέλος Ὁμήρου Ὀδυσσείας σὺν Θεῷ. |
| Language(s): Greek |
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