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Strategemata
Creator
Title
Strategemata.
Created
Italy, [between 1450 and 1500]
Physical Description
ff. i + 170 + i : paper ; 309 x 215 (220 x 119) mm.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Notes
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Ange 660.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a compact calligraphic minuscule.
Tables before each chapter, headpieces, headings, small initials and some marginal notations are in red.
Binding: Date? Pink paper case with an inked label.
In Greek.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillips (no. 10452). Purchased from Laurence Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of Polyaenus, Strategemata. Beinecke MS 250 omits a passage in Book 6, chapters 29 through 45, and the text ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 46, no. 250. Ziskind Catalogue, p. 52.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 250.
Polyaenus, Strategemata. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Polyaenus, Strategemata. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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