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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Coisl. 99

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Additional Information

  • Appr. Date: 9th c. (9th c. (869))
  • Genres: Philosophical
  • Illustrations: No

Notes

Bodleianus Clarkianus 39 (Summary Catalogue no. 18400).  Parchment, 418 folios, anno 869.  Plato's Tetralogies 1-6.

From the collection of Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), professor of mineralogy at Cambridge and noted world traveler (his travel accounts in eleven volumes saw at least four editions, as well as translations into French and Dutch). See Clarke and Otter in our Bibliography: respectively, "Clarke: Travels" and "Clarke: Life" in our Online Resources. The former link goes to one of his discussions of acquiring manuscripts and the latter to a discussion of his donation to the Bodleian Library.

For bibliography, see the Πίνακες entry in Online Resources and "Bodley: This Collection". Scroll down the latter to this manuscript for more information and updated bibliography, as well as a medium-quality image of fol. 1r, also linked to as "Image" in our Online Resources.  Much better-quality photographs are at "Images", though at the time of this writing the 890 of them are not arranged in a very friendly way. (For older information on color reproductions, Ohlgren (1977) Abstract no. 119.)

The scribe is John the Calligrapher (Ἰωάννης καλλιγράφος), who copied this for Arethas. For John, see Vogel & Gardthausen in the Bibliography and Online Resources, and Gaisford's catalogue entry in both those places.

Discussion and image in Wilson's Mediaeval Greek Bookhands, no. 14 with its accompanying plate.

Gaisford's entry, despite its age, is the most extensive we know of and to be recommended, but see Madan's as well (no. 18400). Bodleian exhibition volume (anno 1966) no. 5.

Bibliography

  • Die griechischen Schreiber des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (Open in Zotero)
  • Greek Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: An Exhibition Held in Conjunction with the XIIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Open in Zotero)
  • Mediaeval Greek Bookhands: Examples Selected from Greek Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (Open in Zotero)
  • A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodelian Library at Oxford (Open in Zotero)
  • Illuminated Manuscripts: An Index to Selected Bodleian Library Color Reproductions (Open in Zotero)
  • Catalogus sive notitia maniscriptorum qui a cel. E. D. Clarke comparati in biblioth. Bodl. adservantur (Open in Zotero)
  • Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa (Open in Zotero)
  • The Life and Remains of the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke, Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge (Open in Zotero)