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Alternative title

Hesiodus, Cebes, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 178 + 8

Date created

[ca. 1500 - 1599]

Language

Greek, Modern (1453- ), Latin

Material

Paper

Layout

20 lines to a page

Height (mm)

141

Width (mm)

102

Collation

a(8) 1(8)-9(8) 10(10)-12(10) 13(8) 14(8) 15(10) 16(10) 17(8)-21(8).

Writing

very neatly written

Foliation

ff. a + i-viii + 1-178 + b

Provenance

On flyleaf: Dno Danieli Rogersio Joannes Oliuarius dono dabam pridie calend. Martii 1564.

Binding

Stamped binding with two double panels: the legends are: Domine exaudi orationem meam et clamor meus ad te ueniat and De profundis clamaui ad te domine exaudi uocem meam.

Summary

CCCC MS 248 is a sixteenth-century miscellany of ancient Greek texts popular in the Renaissance, including Homerocentones, Hesiod, Cebes, Theognis, pseudo-Pythagoras and Phocylides, copied from printed editions. It also contains a Latin translation of the life of St Nicholas of Myra. It was presented to Daniel Rogers (c. 1539-91) by Joannes Olivarius, who may himself have been the scribe, in 1564.

Contents

Homerocentones -- Extract from the Suda lexicon on the divinity of Jesus Christ -- Four letters of Anastasia and Chrysogonus -- Works and Days -- Theogony (1-50) -- Pinax -- Elegies -- Golden Verses of Pythagoras -- Sentences -- Life of St Nicholas of Myra, in the Latin translation of Leonardus Justinianus

M.R. James Date

xvi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wb937bc3019/MS_248.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gq312bq6812/248.pdf

Contains

• Homerocentones. 1r-61r

  Nasmith

  Ομηροκεντρα ἁ και κεντρωνες quibus prefixa est επιστολη Πετρου Κανδιδου του μοναχου Αλδω τω Μανουκιω. 1r-61r

  Rubric

  (1r) Πέτρος Κάνδιδος ὁ μοναχ̀ος Ἄλδῳ τῳ̑ Μανουκίῳ ευ̑̓ πράττειν

  Incipit

  (1r) Τ̀α λεγ́ομενα ὁμηρόκεντρα μεγάλῃ τῃ̑ σπουδῃ̑

  Explicit

  (1v) ὑπ' ἐμου̑ μεταδοθείη. Ἐῤῥωσο

  Note

  (1v) Text
  Probably copied from the Aldine edition of 1504, in which appeared the Latin version by P. Candidus

• Extract from the Suda lexicon on the divinity of Jesus Christ. 61v-67v

  Nasmith

  Μαρτυριον ιουδαιου τινος περι του Ιησου Χριστου ὁτι υιος του θεου εστιν. 61v-67v

  Incipit

  (61v) Ἐν τοι̑ς χρόνοις του̑ εὐσεβεστάτου βασιλέως Ἰουστινιανου̑ γέγονεν ἀνθρωπός τις

  Explicit

  (67v) ἀποκεκρυμμένον μυστήριον ἐθάῤῥησεν

  Note

  From Suidas, s.v. Ἰησου̑ς Χριστός

• Four letters of Anastasia and Chrysogonus. 67v-72v

  Nasmith

  Επιστολαι τεσσαρες Αναστασιας και Χρυσογονου. 67v-72v

  Incipit

  (67v) Τῳ̑ ἁγίῳ ὁμολογητῃ̑ Χριστου̑ Χρυσογόνῳ

  Note

  From Suidas, s.v. Χρυσόγονος
  ff. 70v-72v blank

• Hesiod, Works and Days. 73r-91v

  Nasmith

  Ησιοδου του Ασκαιου εργα και ημεραι. 73r-91v

  Author

  Hesiod

  Incipit

  (73r) Μου̑σαι πιερίηθεν

• Hesiod, Theogony (1-50). 91v-92v

  Nasmith

  Του αυτου θεογονια. 91v-92v

  Author

  Hesiod

  Incipit

  (91v) Μουσάων ἑλικωνιάδων

  Note

  To line 50

  Explicit

  (92v) Ὰὐτις δ' ἀνθρ́ωπων τ̀ε γένος κρατερω̑ν τε γιγάντων

• Cebes, Pinax. 93r-107r

  Nasmith

  Κεβητος θηβαιου πιναξ. 93r-107r

  Author

  Cebes

  Incipit

  (93r) Ετυγχάνομεν περιπατου̑ντες

• Theognis, Elegies. 107v-137v

  Nasmith

  Θεογνιδος μεγαρεου σικελιωτου γνωμαι ελεγειακαι. 107v-137v

  Author

  Theognis

  Incipit

  (107v) Ω̑̓ ́ἀνα λητου̑ς υἳε

• Golden Verses of Pythagoras. 138r-139v

  Nasmith

  Χρυσα επη του Πυθαγορου. 138r-139v

  Note

  Note
  (138r) Vulgo doctioribus persuasum est haec aurea Carmina non esse Pythagorae sed Philolai. Io Picus in prooemio Heptapli sui

  Incipit

  (138r) Ἀθανάτους μ̀εν πρω̑τα

• pseudo-Phocylides, Sentences. 139v-146v

  Nasmith

  Φωκυλιδου ποιημα νουθετικον. 139v-146v

  Author

  pseudo-Phocylides

  Rubric

  (139v) Στίξοι εἰς τ̀ον Φωκυλίδην

  Incipit

  (139v) Ὁ Φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπη̑ ζήσας βίον κ. τ. λ.

  Rubric

  (140r) Εἰς τ̀ον αὐτ̀ον ́ἑτεροι

  Incipit

  (140r) Ταυ̑τα δίκῃς ὁσίῃσι θεου̑ κ. τ. λ.

  Note

  Text

  Incipit

  (140r) Μήτε γαμοκλοπέειν

  Explicit

  (145r) μέχρι γήραος οὐδῳ̑

  Rubric

  (145r) τέλος σ̀υν θεῳ̑ τω̑ν Φωκ. ἐπω̑ν

  Note

  ff. 146v-147v blank

• Life of St Nicholas of Myra, in the Latin translation of Leonardus Justinianus. 147r-175v

  Nasmith

  Leonardi Justiniani patricii Veneti, beati Nicolai Myrensis episcopi vita e Graeco in Latinum translata. 147r-175v

  Rubric

  (147r) Leonardi lustiniani patricii Veneti in beati Nicolai myrensis episcopi vitam e graeco in latinum tralatam ad Laurentium eius fratrem Vrbis Venetiarum patriarcham Praefatio

  Incipit

  (147r) Cum aetatis nostrae ingenia

  Explicit

  (149v) quam uiuens quisquam in terris prodesset

  Rubric

  (149v) Incipit vita etc.

  Incipit

  (149v) Pataram rerum scriptores tradunt

  Note

  In 22 chapters ending

  Explicit

  (175r) triumphares cum Christo in gloria per immortalia secula seculorum. Τέλος τῳ̑ θεῳ̑ χάρις

  Note

  Printed by Aldus in Poetae Christiani, 1502
  On 176v: Suidae de hoc diuo testimonium. Nicolaus Myrarum Lyciae ardens - ab omni necessitate liberare. Τέλος

TJames

vac.

Stanley

Lib. ab Al. 29

Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/yz268db3875

MS 248

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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