Eusebius of Caesarea, Origen, Zacharias Mytilenaeus, Aeneas of Gaza, Theophilos of Antioch — 16th century, between 1539 and 1546; Italy, Venice

Title

Eusebius of Caesarea, Origen, Zacharias Mytilenaeus, Aeneas of Gaza, Theophilos of Antioch — 16th century, between 1539 and 1546; Italy, Venice

Shelfmark

MS. Auct. E. 1. 11

Place of origin

Italy, Venice

Date

16th century, between 1539 and 1546

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

286 leaves, folio

Hands

Copied by Bartholomeo Zanetti (RGK I, no. 31, cf. 74, reporting erroneous attribution to Georgios Truphon); additions on fols. 35r-v, 38r, 121v, 122r, 181v, 272r written by Nikolaos Sophianos according to RGK I no. 318.

Binding

Stamped red and black leather with gold ornament, re-backed; sides inlaid with plaquettes by Valerio Belli Vicentino (d. 1546); bound in Venice for Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (see Provenance) about 1545-6 (see A. Hobson, 'Two Venetian bindings for Diego Hurtado de Mendoza', The Book Collector 24 (1975), 33-6).

Acquisition

Presented by sir Ralph Winwood in 1604; probably acquired by Winwood in Venice, as suggested by Hobson.

Provenance

The manuscript is an apograph of Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, gr. Z. 496 (coll. 843) and was copied for Diego Hurtado de Mendoza while he was ambassador at Venice (1539-1546): see Margherita Losacco, 'Théophile d’Antioche, Ad Autolycum: tradition manuscrite et histoire du texte', in Le livre manuscrit grec: écritures, matériaux, histoire: actes du IXe Colloque international de paléographie grecque, Paris, 10-15 septembre 2018, ed. M. Cronier and B. Mondrain (Paris, 2020), 699- at 716, with references to earlier studies. Probably the manuscript borrowed by Johannes Frisius for the editio princeps of Ad Autolycum (Basle, 1546) and also that used for the 1546 Venice edition of the Ammonius (ibid., p. 718).