Dionysios Periegetes, Theognis, Pindar; 16th century

Title

Dionysios Periegetes, Theognis, Pindar; 16th century

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 85

Date

16th century (early)

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper

Physical extent

ii + 113 leaves + iii (foliated as 114–116).

Hands

A) fols 1r-49r: Ζαχαρίας Καλλιέργης, See RGK I 119, RGK II 156, RGK III 197; Álbum de copistas de manuscritos griegos en España, Vol. I: Biblioteca de El Escorial, 13, 013- Callierges, Zacharias; (accessed at 22.10.19). 16th c. Related bibliography: R. Barbour, ‘Summary Description of the Greek Manuscripts from the Library at Holkham Hall’, Bodleian Library Record 6 (5) (1960) 608; V. Chatzopoulou, ‘L'étude de la production manuscrite d'un copiste de la Renaissance au service de l'histoire des textes: le cas du Crétois Zacharie Calliergis’, Revue d'histoire des textes 7 (2012) 18; A. Diller, The Textual Tradition of Strabo's Geography : With Appendix, The Manuscripts of Eustathius' Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes, Amsterdam, 1975, p. 202, fn. 63; I. Tsavari, Histoire du Texte de la Description de la Terre de Denys le Périégète, Ioannina, 1990, and ed. I. Tsavari, Διονυσίου Ἀλεξανδρέως Οἰκουμένης Περιήγησις: Κριτικὴ ἔκδοση, Ioannina, 1990). See also K. Jensen, Printing Greek: A European Enterprise, Oxford, 1992, p. 6, no. 7, where it is stated that the MS ‘was written by Kallierges in the first years of the sixteenth century, and is probably from Kallierges’s years in Padua'. All these correct the erroneous attribution to Janus Lascaris made in D. C. C. Young, ‘A Codicological Inventory of Theognis Manuscripts’. Scriptorium 7 (1953) (1) 26 https://doi.org/10.3406/scrip.1953.2460 : ‘Ho is a carefully written and revised copy by Lascaris from q, handsomely decorated, probably about 1494’.

B) fols 51r-113r: The same hand as in Bodleian MSS D’Orville 187 and Arch. Seld. B. 17 (fols 90-end).

Decoration

Decorative headpieces in the beginning of certain sections: fols 1r, 25r, 51r. Also decorative initials employed by both the scribes. Titles written in Epigraphische Auszeichnungmajuskel (fols. 1r, 25r). Large decorative initial on fol. 25r. Between fols 51r-113r, in several cases initials and titles were omitted for later completion, which never happened (fols 69r, 71r, 73r).

Binding

Holkham binding of green leather, with Coke family ostrich crest in gilt in the centre of the upper cover; Date: early nineteenth century. Rebound by John Jones of Liverpool (worked for Holkham 1816–1823. The spine lettered in gilt: /DIONYSIUS/THEOGNIS/ PINDARI/OLYMP. /; in pasted black leather: MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 85/

Provenance

For date see above, Hands.

Old Catalogue Nrs: paste down: MS. Holkham Gr. 85; fol. i(r): No 265 (sup lin 7) 267 D2 B.3, Olim Holkham Hall, Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 267.