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| | New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,
Beinecke MS 297 | | Description: ff. iii + ix + 293 + iii - Eighteenth century. Near Eastern. Brown goatskin with a deeply impressed medallion containing a crown, sword, sceptre, eagle, bull and I. K., N. B., originally gilt. Title gold-tooled. Spattered edges. - Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 7673). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957. - Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 297. | | Notes:-Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of Unidentified Geography, translated into modern Greek from Latin by Demetrius Notaras. With Dedication to Chrysanthus Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1707-33). | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 0 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BeineckeMS297_47 | | Language: Greek Century: 18th | | View a detailed description: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms297.htm |
| | Part 1: | | Description: - paper - 160 x 103 (123 x 79) mm. | | Country: | Cardinal point: | | Region: Constantinople | City: | | Assigned Date: [ca. 1720-30] | Searchable Date Range: 1720 - 1730 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Script: The text was written by two scribes in similar styles of minuscule. Scribe 1 (pp. 1-238) is the same scribe (Constantine Raphael Byzantinus) as that designated as Scribe 1 in Beinecke MSS 294, 295 and 300, etc.; Scribe 2 copied pp. 239-586. A third person supplied the Table of Contents at the beginning of the codex (pp. i-xv). | | Notes: No ornamentation or rubrication. Binding: Eighteenth century. Near Eastern. Brown goatskin with a deeply impressed medallion containing a crown, sword, sceptre, eagle, bull and I. K., N. B., originally gilt. Title gold-tooled. Spattered edges. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: | | Title: Unidentified geography. | | Subjects: Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, ca. 1663-1731.; Geography.; Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.; | | Language(s): Greek | |
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