Miscellaneous Texts
MS. Holkham Gr. 106
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Title
Miscellaneous Texts
Shelfmark
MS. Holkham Gr. 106
Date
15th c. ;
fols 92r-99v: hand of 16th-17th c.
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper
Hands
fols 34r-42v, 54r-60v, 76r-89r, 100r-126v, 130r-137r, 140r-165r: Δημήτριος ὁ Καστρηνός, see D. Speranzi, ‘Libri, umanisti, biblioteche. Quasi un’introduzione’, in S. Martinelli Tempesta, F. Gallo (eds), Libri e biblioteche di umanisti tra Oriente e Occidente , p. 5, fn 11, and Fr. Manfrin and D. Speranzi, ‘Un Platone mediobizantino tra Oriente e Occidente. Il Tub. Mb 14, Palla Strozzi e i ‘visti’ di Francesco Da Lucca’, in S. Martinelli Tempesta, F. Gallo (eds), Libri e biblioteche di umanisti tra Oriente e Occidente , p. 60, Addendum (D.S.).
fols 46r-53v: Γρηγόριος ἱερομόναχος, PLP 4605, pupil of Georgios Gemistos Plethon. See Fr. Manfrin and D. Speranzi, ‘Un Platone mediobizantino tra Oriente e Occidente. Il Tub. Mb 14, Palla Strozzi e i ‘visti’ di Francesco Da Lucca’, p. 60 and C. Giacomelli and D. Speranzi, ‘Dispersi e ritrovati. Gli Oracoli caldaici, Marsilio Ficino e Gregorio (iero)monaco’, Scripta12 (2019) 122. This corrects the previous erroneous attribution of the fols to Ἀνδρόνικος Χαλκεόπουλος, see RGK I 20e.
fols 70r-72v: Ματθαῖος Καμαριώτης, RGK I, 269; RGK II, 365, and Álbum de copistas de manuscritos griegos en España, I, 15. http://webs.ucm.es/info/copistas/copista.html?num=15Camariotes, Matthaeus (accessed 1 July 2020)
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Binding
Typical Holkham binding of black 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: /MISCELLANEA/ GRAECA//M.S./ SÆC. XV./; in pasted black leather: MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 106
Provenance
Ownership Notes: fol. iii(v), fol. 169v: ex-libris of Markos Mamounas, see A. Cataldi Palau, ‘La vita di Marco Musuro alla luce di documenti e manoscritti’, Italia medioevale e umanistica, 45 (2004) 358, fn. 291: fol. iii(v): βίβλος Μαμουνᾶ ἦν εὖτε τάδ᾽ἐγράφετο/ ex-libris of George Count of Corinth: το νῦν δ᾽ εἶναι γεωργ ίουκόμητος τοῦ κορινθίου: fol.169v: Μάρκ ου Μαμουνᾶ, καὶ τῶν φίλων. fol. 1r: right bottom: T. Coke; fol. 171v: dated note by Fr. da Luccathat he has seen the MS (for similar notes written by him, see https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/copiste-possesseur-autre/4372/): Visto per mi Francescho da Lucca. Feci alle (sic) 1460 a dì 30 di marzo . See Fr. Manfrin and D. Speranzi, ‘Un Platone mediobizantino tra Oriente e Occidente. Il Tub. Mb 14, Palla Strozzi e i ‘visti’ di Francesco Da Lucca, in S. Martinelli Tempesta, F. Gallo (eds), Libri e biblioteche di umanisti tra Oriente e Occidente , Accademia Ambrosiana, Classe di studi greci e latini, Fonti e studi 31, Milan, 2019, p. 60, Addendum (D.S.).
Catalogue Nrs: front paste-down (in pencil): MS. Holkham Gr. 106/ bottom left: 662. b; fol. i(r): Holk Cat. No 107 123(post cor. 293) D1 B.18 (= Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 293).
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Plato
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Georgios komes o Korinthios (d. before 1560)
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Hippocrates, v460-v370
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Timaeus Locrus, pseudo
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Matthaeus, Camariota, -1490
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Plato, pseudo
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Δημήτριος ὀ Καστρηνός, 15th century
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Isaac, Argyrus, -1373
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Hero, of Alexandria
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Γρηγόριος ἱερομόναχος, 15th century
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Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, 1697-1759
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Gemistus Plethon, George, active 15th century
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Gregoras, Nicephorus, 1295-1359 or 1360
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Demetrius Cydones, approximately 1324-approximately 1398
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Moschopoulos, Manuel, approximately 1265?-
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Francesco, da Lucca, 15th century
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Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais
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Mamounas, Markos, 15th-16th century
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Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, 1225-1274
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Lysis, Tarentinus, 4th cent. BCE (?)