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Carmina, etc
Creator
Title
Carmina, etc.
Created
Greece, [between 1800 and 1900]
Physical Description
ff. 5 ; vellum ; 175 x 25 mm; 120 x 45 mm.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Notes
Script: Written in extremely small letters which can scarcely be read with a magnifying glass.
Preserved in a small wooden cylinder labelled "Congreve Matches".
In Greek.
Record created by Beinecke staff.
Provenance
Purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps from Constantine Simonides (Phillipps MSS 13879 and 13880). Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1976.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscripts on vellum of Greek poetry. Purported to have been written in 277 B.C. and 33 A.D., but probably written in the 19th century. Miniature scrolls: Anacreon on 4 scrolls, Pythagoras on 1 scroll.
Publications
A.N.L. Munby, Portrait of an Obsession (N.Y. 1967) p. 209.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2010
References
Anacreon, Carmina. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Anacreon, Carmina. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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