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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barocci 131

Additional Information

  • Appr. Date: 13th c. (13th c. (ca. 1250-1280))
  • Genres: Varia
  • Illustrations: No

Notes

Bodleianus Baroccianus 131.  (Madan Summary Catalogue no. 131 = old Bodley no. 1134.)  Bombycine paper, thirteenth century (ca. 1250-1280), 4*+536  folios.  Several hands. Water-damaged.

John Tzetzes, Michael Psellus, Constantine Manasses, Theodore Prodromus, Michael & Nicetas Choniates ("Acominatus"), Leo the Deacon, Manuel Holobolus, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Gregory of Corinth (Περὶ τῶν Διαλέκτων), &c. &c. &c.

For detailed list of contents, see Coxe's entry in Bibliography. Barbour & Wilson make the following modifications:

§4 μοναχὸν > Μονομάχον
§43 Note: printed in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 1897, p. 528.
§43 μουσιπνοίᾳ > μου συμπνοίᾳ
§123  Note: printed Ioannis Sykutris, Ἐπετηρὶς Ἑταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν 1 (1933) 426-30.
§154 Note: printed in Byz. Zeitschr. 1897, p. 531.

See also Wilson in JÖB in the Bibliography.

For discussion of the five manuscript hands, see Mediaeval Greek Bookhands, nos. 58-62 and the accompanying plates (of fols. 82r, 107r, 244r, 452v and 505v).

For further bibliography, see No. 27 in Greek Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (anno 1966; see Bibliography – also that volume's Plate no. IX for an image from fol. 190r) and at the bottom of the Πίνακες entry.

Bodley's website (see "Images" in Online Resources) has high-quality photographs of apparantly the whole of this precious codex, though at the time of this writing it's arranged in a very peculiar way that makes it difficult to find a given page.

Fol. 176v-178r  Protothroni cujusdam epistolæ ad varios (Coxe §§53-63).

Contains the following Iter Psellianum numbers:

EP.1, 44, 47, 50, 51, 78, 101, 108, 134, 139, 155, 158, 160, 185, 187, 228, 229, 252, 274, 279, 282, 229, 252, 274, 279, 282, 320, 328, 337, 340, 341, 342, 343, 366, 369, 373, 393, 417, 440, 446, 450, 461, 467, 474, 483, 493, 523.

THE.17, 74, 77, 89, 97, 143, 145, 162.

PHI.4, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 46, 49, 51, 55, 68, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 103, 104, 108, 109, 110, 125, 126, 127-137, 142-153, 160, 165, 166, 171.

GRA/RHE.11, 13, 14, 18.

CET.DISC.1. 15. 20.

ORA.8, 30, 36, 41, 45, 55, 57, 62.

POE.102.

See "Bodley: This Collection" in Online Resources for information including the Madan entry (labeled "Vol. 2 Part 1") and Coxe entry (given by column numbers).

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