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Plimpton MS 003 | | Description: ff. 335 (modern foliation); ff. 208 - Two volumes - Bound since in 1936 in wooden boards; formerly bound, ca. 1835, in English Russia leather. - Owned, s. XVI, by the Franciscan house of S. Francesco della Vigna, Venice; Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805); Rev. Walter Sneyd; E. Rahir, Paris; Herman C. Hoskier (sale, London 1908), Joseph (Giuseppe) Martini Cat. 9 (1912); George A. Plimpton. - De Ricci, pp. 1754-7155. | | Acknowledgments: - Dr. Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann kindly supplied the information for this description. | | Number of Parts: 2 - Number of Images Available: 6 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/PlimptonMS003_20 | | Language: Greek Latin Country: Italy Century: 15th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1r - 332v | | Description: - Paper - 280 x 190 mm - 30-31 lines. | | Country: Italy | Cardinal point: | | Region: Veneto | City: Venice | | Assigned Date: s. XVex | Searchable Date Range: 1485 - 1499 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Scribe(s): Damiano Guidotto | | Script: Humanistic minuscule. | | Other Decoration: | | Notes: Copied from the editio princepsof Homer (Florence, not before 13 Jan. 1488/89; Hain-Copinger 8772; Goff H-300); foliation begins afresh with each new text. Greek | | Number of Texts: 7 |
| | Text 1: ff. 2r-3v | | Author: Demetrios Chalcondyles | | Title: Δημήτριος ὁ Χαλkονδύλης τοῖς ἐντευξομένοις εὐ (sic) πράττειν. | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: (f. 2r) Μάλιστα μὲν τιμᾶν τε καὶ ἄγασθαι… Prefatory treatise written for the editio princeps of Iliad and Odyssey (Florence, 1489) | | Explicit: (f. 3v) …δυνατοὶ ἂν εἶεν οὕτω τυγχάνειν. | | Notes: ff. 1-3v, D. Chalcondyles, dedication to Piero dei Medici & preface; ff. 4-8v, 33-37v, Pseudo Herodotes, Life of Homer; ff. 37v-40v, 9-32v, 41-63, Pseudo Plutarch, Life of Homer; ff. 63-65v, Dio Chrysostom, De Homero; ff. 66-70 blank; f. 70v, D. Guidotto. | | Status of text: Quires 2-4 (ff. 9-32v) misbound. | 
| f. 2v (first set)
Part of Demetrius Chalcondyles, prefatory treatise on Homer, mentioning Florence on lines 3-4.
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| | Text 2: ff. 4r-8v, ff. 33r-37v | | Author: Pseudo Herodotus | | Title: Vita Homeri (Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνασῆσος ἐξήγησις περὶ τῆς τοῦ Ὁμήρου γενέσιος καὶ βιοτῆς.) | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: (f. 4r) Ἡρόδοτος ὁ Ἁλικαρνασεὺς περὶ Ὁμήρου γενέσιος… | | Explicit: f. 37v) γέγονεν Ὅμηρος ἔτεσιν ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα ὀκτώ. | |
| | Text 3: ff. 37v-40v, 9r-32v, 41r-63r | | Author: Pseudo Plutarch | | Title: Vita Homeri (Πλουτάρχου εἰς τὸν βίον τοῦ Ὁμήρου.) | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: (f. 37v) Περιττὸν ἴσως δόξειέ τισι πολυπραγμονεῖν… | | Explicit: (f. 63r) …τὰ ἔπη μεταθέντες καὶ συνείροντες. | |
| | Text 4: ff. 63r-65v | | Author: Dio Chrysostom | | Title: Oratio 53, De Homero (Περὶ Ὁμήρου λόγος ἠγαίωνος (sic) Χρυσοστόμου.) | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: (f. 63r) Ὁ μὲν Δημόκρητος (sic) περὶ Ὁμήρου φησὶν… | | Explicit: (f. 65v) ὑπερορᾷ πατὴρ τῶν ἀνθρώπων καλεῖσθαι.Τέλος. | |
| | Text 5: f.70v | | Author: Damiano Guidotto | | Title: Ἐπιγράμματα εἰς τοῦ Ὁμήρου… (see full text in the colophon in Notes) | | Title:
Epigrams
| | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: Ἕσπετε τοῦδε μόνως λαοί… | | Explicit: …ἀεὶ φαίδιμον ἡμετέροις. | | Notes: Colophon: Ἐπιγράμματα εἰς τοῦ Ὁμήρου ἔναισιν (sic, for αἴνεσιν) διὰ τὸν Δαμιάνον Γουίδοτον τὸν ἕνετον πεποιημένα καὶ τοῦτο τὸ βιβλίον καὶ τῆς Ὀδυσσείας γεγραφότα | |
| | Text 6: f.71r | | Title: Hypothesis in the First Book of the Iliad (Ὑπόθεσις α' τοῦ Ὁμήρου ῥαψωδίας.) | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: Χρύσης ἱερεὺς Ἀπόλλωνος… | | Explicit: παιδὸς τιμωρίαν αἰτεῖται. | |
| | Text 7: ff. 71r-332r | | Author: Homer | | Title: Iliad ( Ἰλιάδος α' Ὁμήρου ῥαψωδίας) | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: (f. 71r) Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ… | | Explicit: (f. 332r) … τάφον Ἕκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο. Τέλος τῆς τοῦ Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάδος. | |
| | Part 2: ff. 1r-206v | | Description: - Paper - 280 x 190 mm - 30-31 Lines | | Country: Italy | Cardinal point: | | Region: Veneto | City: Venice | | Assigned Date: s. XVex | Searchable Date Range: 1485 - 1499 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Scribe(s): Damiano Guidotto | | Script: Humanistic minuscule | | Other Decoration: | | Notes: Copied from the editio princeps of Homer (Florence, not before 13 Jan. 1488/89; Hain-Copinger 8722; Goff H-300) Greek | | Number of Texts: 2 |
| | Text 1: f. 1r | | Author: Eustathius Thessalonicensis | | Title: Hypothesis to the first book of the Odyssey (Ὑπόθεσις α' Ὁμήρου Ὀδυσσείας) | | Title:
Commentarii ad Homeri Odysseam
| | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: Θεῶν ἀγορὰ γίνεται… | | Explicit: …μνηστήρων γίνεται εὐωχία. | |
| | Text 2: ff. 1r-206r | | Author: Homer | | Title: Odyssey (Ὀδυσσείας α Ὁμήρου) | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: (f.1r) Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε Μοῦσα… | | Explicit: (f. 206r) …δέμας ἠδὲ καὶ αὐδήν. Τέλος Ὁμήρου Ὀδυσσείας σὺν Θεῷ. | |
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