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Composite manuscript (palimpsest), two parts (Greek): 1. (lower script) Tragedies / Sophocles. – 2. (upper script) Viae dux / Anastasius of Sinai, and other text(s)
Tragedies
Tragoediae
Sophoclis Tragoediae
Aiax
Electra
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Trachiniae
Philoctetes
Oedipus Coloneus
…
pen-flourished initials
Creator
- Anastasius Sinaita
- Sophocles
- Sophronius of Jerusalem
- Sophocles
- Anastasius Sinaita
Subject
- classical literature/philosophy (MMDC)
- Middle Ages
- Reading culture (medieval)
- Reading culture
- Reading culture
Type of item
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscript
Medium
- Part 1: Parchment
- Part 2: Parchment
- parchment (animal material)
- Parchment
Creator
- Anastasius Sinaita
- Sophocles
- Sophronius of Jerusalem
- Sophocles
- Anastasius Sinaita
Subject
- classical literature/philosophy (MMDC)
- Middle Ages
- Reading culture (medieval)
- Reading culture
- Reading culture
Type of item
- manuscripts (documents)
- Manuscript
Medium
- Part 1: Parchment
- Part 2: Parchment
- 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
- Part 1: [second half 10th century]
- Part 2: [13th or 14th century]
- 0950-1350
- 10th century
- 13th century
- 14th century
- 0950/1350
- 14th century
- 13th century
- 10th century
Places
- Part 1: Origin unknown
- Part 2: Origin unknown
Current location
- Leiden University Library
Provenance
- First mentioned in the Leiden catalogue of 1612 (Heinsius 1612), p. 89: "Questiones Cyrilli & contra Nestorianos, in membrana".
- Possibly owned by Bonaventura Vulcanius, according to Vürtheim (1926).
- Vulcanius, Bonaventura, (1538-1614)
Identifier
- Shelfmark: BPG 60 A
Extent
- 1 volume, 147 leaves
- 220x155/160 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
- Heinsius 1612 = [D. Heinsius], Catalogus librorum bibliothecæ lugdunensis. / Præfixa est Danielis Heinsii bibliothecarii ad nobiliß. & ampliß. Academae curatores oratio, [Leiden 1612], p. 89
- Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), p. 92
- Christodoulou 1977 = G.A. Christodoulou (ed.), Ta archaia scholia eis Aianta tou Sofokleous. Athena 1977, p. 3, 32*, 93*
- Dawe 1978 = R.D. Dawe, Studies on the text of Sophocles. Vol. 3. Leiden 1978, p. 1
- De Meyier 1965 = K.A. de Meyier, Codices Bibliothecae Publicae Graeci. Leiden 1965, p. 85-86
- Duivenvoorden & 2017 = J. Duivenvoorden & al., 'Hidden library. Visualizing fragments of medieval manuscritps in early-modern bookbindings with mobile macro-XRF scanner'. In: Heritage Science 5 (2017), 6 (10 pp.), p. 7-8.
- Giannachi 2007 = F.G. Giannachi, 'La colometria del palinsesto di Sofocle (Leid. B.P.G. 60 A)'. In: Bollettino dei Classici, 3rd series, 28 (2007), p. 53-76.
- Irigoin 1951 = J. Irigoin, 'Le palimpseste de Sophocle'. In: Revue des études Grecques 64 (1951), p. 443-455.
- Irigoin 1977 = J. Irigoin, 'Quelques réflexions sur le concept d'archétype'. In: Revue d'histoire des textes 13 (1977), p. 237
- Mondrain 2010 = B. Mondrain, 'Jean Irigoin et la paléographie Grecque'. In: A. Bravo García & I. Pérez Martin (eds.), The legacy of Bernard de Montfaucon. Three hundred years of studies on Greek handwriting. Turnhout 2010, p. 601-611, i.c. p. 606
- …
Has Met
- Bonaventura Vulcanius
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
- Part 1 contains, in Greek: Tragedies / Sophocles. With scholia. Incomplete. Verses transcribed by Scheltema (1949): Aiax, vss. 355-706, 751-794, 839-927, 973-1014, 1104-1192, 1282-1370, 1415-end. – Electra, argum. I, II, vss. 1-20, 61-227, 270-309, 358-649, 746-841, 941-1034, 1129-1409, 1450-1494. – Oedipus Rex, 32-128, 219-267, 316-605, 744-940, 1039-end. – Antigone, argum., vss. 1-698, 753-803, 912-963, 1016-1164, 1216-1307. – Trachiniae, argum. ex Apollodoro, 1-8, 150-243, 385-1126, 1175-end (followed by a poem about the works of Hercules). – Philoctetes, argum., vss. 1-145, 194-239, 528-1121, 1226-1370, 1468-end. – Oedipus Coloneus, argum., vss. 1-152, 246-653, 745-835, 917-964, 1012-1059, 1388-1435, 1481-1576, 1624-1671.
- Part 2 contains, in Greek: (ff. 1r-119r) Viae dux / Anastasius of Sinai. – (ff. 119v-141r) Epistula synodica [to Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople] / Sophronius of Jeruzalem. – (ff. 141r-143r) Definitiones variae de Trinitate. – (ff. 143r-146v) Sermo prosphoneticus concilii sexti ad imperatorem. – (f. 147r) note. – (f. 147v) Two Greek alphabets.