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Argonautica Orphica (Greek), and other text(s)
Hymni Orphica
Hymns
Hymni Homerici
Homeric hymns
Amor fugitivus
Epigramma
Carmen de Herone et Leandro
painted initial, pen-flourished initial
Creator
- Pseudo-Homer
- Moschus
- Musaeus Grammaticus
- Proclus
- Moschus
- Musaeus Grammaticus
- Proclus
Subject
- classical literature/philosophy (MMDC)
- Pseudo-Orpheus
- Middle Ages
- Reading culture (medieval)
- Reading culture
- Pseudo-Orpheus
- Reading culture
Type of item
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscript
Medium
- parchment (animal material)
- Parchment
Creator
- Pseudo-Homer
- Moschus
- Musaeus Grammaticus
- Proclus
- Moschus
- Musaeus Grammaticus
- Proclus
Subject
- classical literature/philosophy (MMDC)
- Pseudo-Orpheus
- Middle Ages
- Reading culture (medieval)
- Reading culture
- Pseudo-Orpheus
- Reading culture
Type of item
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscript
Medium
- parchment (animal material)
- Parchment
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Creation date
- [second half 15th century]
- 1450-1500
- 15th century
- 1450/1500
- 15th century
Places
- Apennine Peninsula
- Italy
- Italy
Current location
- Leiden University Library
Provenance
- First mentioned in the Leiden catalogue of 1852 (Geel 1852).
- Owned by Nic. Cl. Fabri de Peiresc, see the inscription "de peiresc" on f. 1r and the stamp imprints with his monogram at the end or beginning of the texts. – Anthony Askew, whose books were auctioned by Leigh, Sotheby a.o. (London) on 7 March 1785; see McKendrick (2020).
- Askew, Antonius, (1722-1774)
- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, (1580-1637)
Identifier
- Shelfmark: BPG 74 C
Extent
- 1 volume, 111 leaves
- 230x160 mm
Format
- books
- Book
Language
- grc
- Ancient Greek
- grc
Is part of
- Art of Reading in the Middle Ages: previously digitised item
- In collection: Bibliotheca Publica Graeca
Is referenced by
- Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), p. 94
- De Meyier 1965 = K.A. de Meyier, Codices Bibliothecae Publicae Graeci. Leiden 1965, p. 137-138
- Geel 1852 = J. Geel, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum qui inde ab anno 1741 bibliothecae Lugduno Batavae accesserunt. Leiden 1852, nr. 28
- McKendrick 2020 = S. McKendrick, 'Collecting Greek manuscripts in eighteenth-century England: the origins, scope and legacy of the collections of Richard Mead and Anthony Askew'. In: Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 25 (2020), part 1, p. 85-109
- Montani 1991 = A. Pontani, 'La biblioteca di Manuele Sofianòs'. In: D. Harlfinger & G. Prato (eds), Paleografia e codicologia greca (Atti del II Colloquio internazionale Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-20 ottobre 1983). Alessandria, 1991, p. 551-569, i.c. p. 569
- Pinakes = Pinakes. Textes et manuscrits grecs
- Vian 1979 = F. Vian, 'La tradition manuscrite des "Argonautiques Orphiques"'. In: Revue d'histoire des textes 9 (1979), p. 1-46, i.c. p. 17-19
Has Met
- Anthony Askew
- Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-02-02T16:01:23.761Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-02-29T09:55:44.806Z
Table of contents
- Contains, all in Greek: (ff. 1r-32r) Argonautica Orphica. – (ff. 32v-59v) Orphic hymns. – (ff. 59v-62v) Hymns / Proclus. – (ff. 63r-104v) Homeric hymns III-XXXIII. – (ff. 105r-v) Amor fugitivus / Moschus of Syracuse. – (f. 105v) Epigrams. – (ff. 106r-111v) Carmen de Herone et Leandro / Musaeus Grammaticus.