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Elegies
Creator
Title
Elegies.
Created
Greece, [between 1800 and 1900]
Physical Description
ff. 2 : vellum ; 480 x 55 mm.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Notes
Script: Written in Greek capital script in boustrophedon, that is from right to left and from left to right alternatively, a method of writing that was no longer practiced in the third century when these scrolls were purported to have been written.
Preserved in a small wooden cylinder.
In Greek.
Record created by Beinecke staff.
Provenance
Sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1854 by Constantine Simonides who is thought to have written them. Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1976.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on 2 vellum scrolls of Tyrtaeus, Elegies, with figure-poems of Dosiadas, Simmias, Besantinus, and Theocritus (attrubuted author), and hymns of Mesomedes and Arion. Said to be third century, but actually 19th-century forgery.
Publications
A.N.L. Munby, Portrait of an Obsession (N.Y. 1967), p. 208-209; C.E. Lutz, "A Forged Manuscript in Boustrophedon," Yale University Libary Gazette 53 (1978) 28-44.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2010
References
Tyrtaeus, Elegies. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Tyrtaeus, Elegies. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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