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Life of Oppian, etc
Title
Life of Oppian, etc.
Created
Salamanca, 1580.
Physical Description
ff. i + 176 + ii : paper ; 289 x 201 (215 x 103) mm.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Notes
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Croix latine 5683 and Main 11292.
Script: Written by Andreas Darmarius in Salamanca and dated 17 November 1580.
Headings and simple initials in red. A few diagrams to illustrate text, mainly geometrical figures showing the elements of the cosmos (ff. 31r-32v), but also one stemmatic diagram illustrating the divisions of fishing (f. 72v).
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Limp vellum case; remains of tawed skin ties. Lettering in ink on spine.
In Greek.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957 (MS 42).
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Oppian. 2) Summary of the poem in art. 1. 3) Scholia on Oppian, Halieutica, attributed to Tzetzes. 4) Paraphrasis of Oppian, Cynegetica, attributed to Tzetzes.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 48, no. 269. Ziskind Catalogue, p. 42.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 08, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 269.
Life of Oppian, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Life of Oppian, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Spain - 16th century.
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