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Alternative title

Euripides

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 120

Date created

[ca. 1400-1499]

Language

Greek, Modern (1453- ), Latin

Material

Paper

Layout

text 22 and 19 lines to a page

Height (mm)

215

Width (mm)

147

Collation

1(10)-12(10).

Writing

in two good hands

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-121 + iii

Research

The MS. was used by Porson for his text of the Hecuba. It is described by Paley, Eurip. III xxxii, and a facsimile of a few lines is given

Additions

At top of f. 1r a small erasure and, in Roman hand of cent. xvi: Liber quondam Theodori Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis.

Summary

CCCC MS 403, in Greek, is one of the books believed in Parker's time to have come from Canterbury and ultimately from Theodore of Tarsus (d. 690), archbishop of Canterbury. It is a typical late fifteenth-century paper copy of the three most commonly studied plays of Euripides, Hecuba, Orestes (wrongly entitled Electra) and Phoenissae, with Palaeologan scholia. It is written by two hands (A: ff. 1-41v; B: ff. 42-118r).

Contents

Hecuba -- Orestes -- Phoenissae

M.R. James Date

xv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zm494yr4194/MS_403.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vf175bx8349/403.pdf

Contains

• Euripides, Hecuba. 1r-30r

  Author

  Euripides

  Note

  (1r) In red capitals

  Rubric

  (1r) ΕὐριπίδουἙκάβη
  (1r) προλογίζει εί̓δωλον πολυδ́ωρου

  Incipit

  (1r) ́̔Ηκω νεκρω̑ν κευθμω̑να, κ.τ.λ.

  Explicit

  (30r) στερρ̀α γ̀αρ ἀνάγκη

  Rubric

  (30r) Τέλος

  Note

  (2r) Scholia begin on f. 2r

• Euripides, Orestes. 30r-72v

  Author

  Euripides

  Rubric

  (30r) δρα̑μα δέυτερον εὐριπίδους

  Incipit

  (30r) Ὀρέστης τ̀ον φόνον του̑ πατρ̀ος μεταπορευόμενος

  Explicit

  (30r) καθαρέντι (!) δ̀ε του̑ φόνου ά̓ργους ά̓ρχειν

  Incipit

  (30v) Ἡ μ̀εν σκην̀η του̑ δράματος ὑπόκειται ἐν ά̓ργει

  Explicit

  (30v) πάντες φαυ̑λοι η̑̓σαν

  Rubric

  (30v) Τ̀α του̑ δράματος πρόσωπα
  (31r) ΕὐριπίδουἨλέκτρα (l. Ὀρέστης)

  Incipit

  (31r) Οὐκ έ̓στιν οὐδ̀εν, κ.τ.λ.

  Note

  Scholia

  Incipit

  (31r) Πάθος ... σ́ωματος τ̀ο τραυ̑μα κὰι ἡ πληγ̀η

  Note

  At top of f. 37r in a Western hand, lined through
  (37r) νεπιος και καλιφρον stultus et insipiens
  (69r) Similarly on f. 69r are the words βιβλιος and ὀ Θωμας
  (42r) The second hand begins after l. 490
  (42r) ὀργ̀η γ̀αρ ά̔μα
  Ends

  Explicit

  (72v) κὰι μ̀η λήγοις στεφανου̑σα

  Note

  Scholia end

  Explicit

  (72v) ὁλοσχερω̑ς κὰι τω̑ν μίκτων

• Euripides, Phoenissae. 73r-118r

  Author

  Euripides

  Rubric

  (73r) Δρα̑μα τρίτον Εὐριπίδους

  Incipit

  (73r) Ἐτεοκλη̑ς παραλαβ̀ων τ̀ην τω̑ν Θηβω̑ν βασιλείαν

  Explicit

  (73r) τ̀ην δυστυχίαν ἐλεήσας

  Rubric

  (73r) Τ̀α του̑ δράματος πρόσωπα
  (73v) Εὐριπίδου Φοίνισσαι
  (73v) ̑̓Ω τ̀ην ἐν ά̓στροις

  Note

  On f. 82r in the Western hand
  (82r) ανθρωπος. (homo) βελτιστε. φιλος
  Ends

  Explicit

  (118r) κὰι μ̀η λήγοις στεφανου̑σα

  Rubric

  (118r) Τέλος του̑ εὐριπίδου

  Note

  Scholia end

  Explicit

  (118r) ἀντίχαριν οὐκ έ̓χουσαν

  Note

  On f. 118v in the Western hand: anser χήν, cornu πέρας (!)
  ff. 119r-120v blank

TJames

261

Stanley

Q. 7

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 403

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