Cleomedes, On the circular movement of heavenly bodies, and an Anonymous Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Title

Cleomedes, On the circular movement of heavenly bodies, and an Anonymous Treatise on the Astrolabe.

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 102

Date

16th century

Language

Latin

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper

Hands

One scribe.

Decoration

Decorative head-pieces preceding each sections: (in red ink): fol. 1r, fol. 23r, fol. 43r

Binding

Typical Holkham binding of brown 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: / CLEOMEDIS/OP./ GR.–//MS./; in pasted black leather: MS. /HOLK./ Gr. 102/

Provenance

Ownership Notes: fol. 1r in black ink: signature of Thomas William Coke.- ; right bottom: in pencil note with a date 1690. Catalogue Numbers: Catalogue Nrs: Seidel, quarto, no. 54, p. 17. 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. 17: ‘Cleomedis, Autoris Græci, Commentarius de Sphæra ac Syderibus eorumque motibus Græcè’. See also R. Förster, 'Handschriften in Holkham', Philologus 42 (1884) 161–162 and 164. Förster identifies part of the description in Seidel’s catalogue, folio, n. 195, p. 77 (namely of MS. Holkham Gr. 67, olim cod. CCXCVII), as referring to the MS Holkham Gr. 102 (olim cod. CCXCI): … Est Codex egregius Graecus in charta bombycina non inelegander conscriptus ante plus quam quingentos, ut videtur, annos’’, but while omitting the rest of the reference from Seidel’s catalogue, because it describes MS. Holkham Gr. 67: Perpauca quædam Folia passim, tum in medio tum in fine, desiderantur, he fails to explain how the entry makes a mixture of two codices and more importantly why the MS under question has a separate entry in Seidel’s catalogue (n. 54, p. 17); 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. 24: From the A. E. Seidel sale (Berlin, 1718, no. 54). 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. 102/ bottom left: 662. b.; fol. ii(r): D2B.9 No 286 (sup lin 291) (= Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 291).