Libanius Middle 14th cent.
MS. Barocci 4
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Libanius Middle 14th cent.
Shelfmark
MS. Barocci 4
Date
Middle 14th cent.
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper, Oriental and Western, some leaves watermarked (one design unidentified, the others may be no. 3356 in Mošin–Traljić (AD 1334), and no. 3588 ibid. (AD 1362)).
Physical extent
viii + 222 leaves.
Hands
Two scholarly hands. A: fols. 1r–8v, B: fols. 9r–211v. Copious glosses by A, a few marginalia by B. It is possible that the sheets written by A are a fragment of a separate book, which B made the beginning of his own text.
Decoration
Rubrication: a penwork heading on fol. 1r in brown and carmine; titles and initials in faded carmine or vermilion.
Binding
Binding of brown-stamped brown leather, 18th cent. (?).
Provenance
fols. viii recto and 211v: κτῆμα Γεωργίου κόμητοϲ τοῦ Κορινθίου.
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