Sibylline Oracles, Books I-VIII. 477, with a collation of the MS by Andreas Erasmus Seidel with Sibyllina oracula de graeco in latinum conversa et in eadem annotationes. Sebastiano Castalione interprete, Basel, 1546.

Title

Sibylline Oracles, Books I-VIII. 477, with a collation of the MS by Andreas Erasmus Seidel with Sibyllina oracula de graeco in latinum conversa et in eadem annotationes. Sebastiano Castalione interprete, Basel, 1546.

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 100

Date

16th century

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper

Physical extent

v + 186 leaves, + iii at the end foliated as 188–189.

Hands

a) fols 1r-179v: Ἀντώνιος Ἐπισκοπόπουλος, RGK I, 24; RGK II, 33; RGK III, 37; Álbum de copistas de manuscritos griegos en España, I, 36, Episcopulus, Antonius (accessed 28 April 2020).

b) fol. iv: b) hand of 16th c.

c) fols v(r)-v(v): hand of 16th c. not to be confused with that of Ἀντώνιος Ἐπισκοπόπουλος

d) fols iiir, 180r-185r: Andreas Erasmus Seidel

Decoration

fol. 1r: Small head-pieces in red ink in the beginning of the work. Decorative letters, indicating beginning of a new book: fols 1r, 26r, 42r, 93v, 105r, 138r, 140r, 150r.

Binding

Holkham binding of blind-tooled dark blue 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: /ORACULA /SIBYLLINA/ GR.–//; in pasted black leather: MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 100

Provenance

Ownership Notes: fol. iii(v): note written by A. E. Seidel, see below. Seidel mentions that he had purchased the MS in 1689 from a certain Monastery in the diocese of Thessalonica. fol. iv(r) right bottom in black ink: signature of Thomas William Coke. fol. 179v: βίβλος τῆς ἱερᾶς μονῆς τῆς θεοτόκου τοῦ γδερνέτου (γελερνέτου Barbour). On the monastery see http://digitalcrete.ims.forth.gr/sites_display.php?id=1720 (accessed 27.4.2020). Catalogue Nrs: Seidel, quarto, no. 86. See Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae Seidelianae Catalogus librorum bibliothecae Seidelianae: pro parata pecunia divendendorum quorum auctio hic Francofurti ad Viadr. die 23. Febr. 1712, Frankfurt 1712; Bibliotheca Insignis & Numerosa Viri Piè Defuncti, Generosissimi & Doctissimi Dni. Dni. Andr. Erasmi de Seidel ...: Continens Non Solum Libros Manuscriptos Variar. Materiar. & Lingvar. Nempe Germanicae, Latin. ... Sed Etiam Typis Excusos in Aliis, Praeter Jam Dictas, Linguis Materiis, & Gacultaib. Non Postremos, Quorum Aucito Habebitur Die I.Mo & Seqq. Augusti ... Laurentius, 1718, p. 20: ‘ Ein sehr altes Griechisches Buch aus einem Thessalonischen Kloster, handelde von denem Oraculis Sybillinis, de Graecis, de DEO, de Sanctis, de Iudicio, de Impostore Demone Anti-Christo etc’. See also R. Förster, 'Handschriften in Holkham', Philologus 42 (1884) 161. See also S. de Ricci, A handlist of manuscripts in the library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall: abstracted from the catalogues of William Roscoe and Frederic Madden (Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's Transactions, 7, Oxford, 1932), p. 22: Bought in 1689 in a monastery in the diocese of Thessalonica by A. E. Seidel (his sale, Berlin, 1718, no. 86). However S. de Ricci was unable to see Seidel’s sale catalogue(s). See S. de Ricci, p. xi, esp. fn. 1.

front paste-down (in pencil), fol. i (v): MS. Holkham Gr. 100; Olim Holkham Hall, fol. ii(r): No 264 (sup lin. 6) D2B.2 ( = Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 266).