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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3457

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.113

Title:

Erotemata

Erotemata

Author:

Calcondila, Demetrio, 1423-1511

Dimitrios Chalkokondyles WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Nicholas, Della Torre

Nicholas Della Torre WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

grc

Ancient Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 56 leaves : parchment ; 147 x 110 (106 x 65) mm bound to 16 cm, in box 18 cm

Former Owner(s):

Freeman, Gladys

Gladys Freeman WIKIDATA

Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936

George Arthur Plimpton WIKIDATA

Reichner, Herbert, 1899-1971

Herbert Reichner WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Greek.
Title devised and romanized by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Tietisyllabe...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 56 + i (first and last are free flyleaves conjugate with pastedowns, and final flyleaf is also a text page); i + 1-78 + i ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right recto each quire, numbers first flyleaf as 1 and final flyleaf as 58, those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 20 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
Script: Written in a humanistic Greek bookhand, possibly the hand of Nicholas della Torre, in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One-line red capitals throughout, blank space for initial left unfilled on fol. 1.
Binding: Original blind-stamped leather over boards, interlace blindstamps, lacking clasp, partially rebacked, pachment pastdowns conjugate with front and rear flyleaves, housed in green cloth clamshell box, label on spine (author misidentified): "Constantinus/ Lascaris/ Grammar" and "MS. Q. Med. 113".
Origin: Written in Italy around the year 1480, possibly by the scribe Nicholas della Torre (see 1940 correspondance from Kirsopp Lake to owner Herbert Reichner, laid-in).
Provenance: According Bond and Faye, the manuscript was "described in [a] catalogue of an Italian family of Messina as once belonging to Lascaris," although the source of this assertion is unknown. Later owned by Gladys Freeman, from whom it was acquired by George Plimpton (New York, NY), his MS 7 (Census 2:1755), and passed to Herbert Reichner.
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to BPL by Herbert Reichner in 1943.
Call number: MS q Med.113.
Former call number: MS 1541.

Keyword:

Wooden boards

Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Blind tooled bindings

Clasps

Manuscripts, Medieval

Inscriptions

Greek language--Grammar

Early works

Greek language--Alphabet

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444793

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qj72tc94h/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library