A collection of geographical, military, and other treatises

Title

A collection of geographical, military, and other treatises

Shelfmark

MS. Savile 8

Summary

A collection of geographical, military, and other treatises:

Fol. 1. Νικηϕόρου του̑ Βλεμμίδους γεωγραϕία συνοπτική, followed (fol. 14) by the same author's ε'τέρα ι'στορία ... προ'ς βασιλέα ο'ρθόδοξον. This MS. is not in Heisenberg's list, Nic. Blemm. curriculum vitae ..., p. lxii.

Fol. 16. Περι' ϕωτός, πυρός, ϕωστήρων ... etc., (fol. 19v) περι' ου'ρανου̑, (fol. 21) του̑ αυ'του̑ περι' γη̑ς.

Fol. 25. Γεωργίου του̑ Κωδίνου παρεκβολαι' ε'κ τη̑ς βίβλου του̑ χρονικου̑ περι' τω̑ν πατρίων τη̑ς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως (as in Migne, Patrol, gr. clvii, 435-611), followed (fol. 40) by τω̑ν α'πο' κτίσεως κοσμου̑ ε'τω̑ν μέχρι ... Κωνσταντίνον, κτλ.. (as in Migne, ib. 635-51), (fol. 46) by a versified list of patriarchs of Constantinople from Metrophanes to Isaiah, and (fol. 47) by a description of the church of St. Sophia (as in Migne, ib. 613-34). This MS., which in art. 3 resembles Paris. gr. 1726, is not in Preger's lists, Scriptores originum Constantinop.

Fol. 55. 'Αθηναίου περι' μηχανημάτων.

Fol. 63v. Βίτωνος κατασκευαι' πολεμικω̑ν ο'ργάνων. This MS. is not in Wescher's list, Poliorcétiques grecs, p. xliii.

Fol. 69. 'Ιουλίου 'Αϕρικάνου πρός πολεμίων (!) παρασκευαί, i.e. the Κεστοί. This MS. is not in Vieillefond's list, Fragments des Cestes, p. xliv.

Fol. 104. Leonis Tactica. This MS. is not in Vári's list, Leonis Imp. Tactica, p. xi.

Date

Written in the late 16th or early 17th century in the same hand as the 1st half of MS. Auct. E. 3. 16

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

234 Leaves

Custodial history

Labelled '8'