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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 403: Euripides, Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 403: Euripides, Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae

Description

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.

Abstract/Contents

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

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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<br />(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<br />(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<br />(37r) νεπιος και καλιφρον stultus et insipiens<br />(69r) Similarly on f. 69r are the words βιβλιος and ὀ Θωμας<br />(42r) The second hand begins after l. 490<br />(42r) ὀργ̀η γ̀αρ ά̔μα<br />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<br />(73v) Εὐριπίδου Φοίνισσαι<br />(73v) ̑̓Ω τ̀ην ἐν ά̓στροις
    Note
    On f. 82r in the Western hand<br />(82r) ανθρωπος. (homo) βελτιστε. φιλος<br />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 (!)<br />ff. 119r-120v blank
TJames
261
Stanley
Q. 7
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 403

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