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Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1353

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Additional Information

  • Appr. Date: 15th c. (15th c. (1462))
  • Genres: Letters
  • Illustrations: No

Notes

Letters ascribed to (many with replies of alleged addressees):
Fols. 1r-40v: Phalaris of Agrigentum.
Fols. 40v-41r: Abaris, the Hyperborean (Scythicus).
Fols. 41r-43r: Anacharsis.
Fols. 43v-53v: Chion of Heraclea (Ponticus).
Fols. 54r-57v: Euripides.
Fols. 58r-72v: Hippocrates and others (replies).
Fols. 71r-72r: Democritus.
Fols. 72v-79v: Heraclitus (and King Darius).
Fols. 80r-91v: Apollonius, of Tyana.
Fols. 91v-93r: Lysis of Tarentum.
Fol. 93r-v: Melissa.
Fols. 93v-94r: Myia.
Fols. 94r-97r: Theano.
Fols. 97r-99v: Musonius Rufus.
Fols. 100r-112v: Diogenes (fols. 100-105 inserted later, in a denser and slightly less ornate script).
Fols. 112v-114r: Cratetus.
Fols. 114v-127r, 129v: Plato (fols. 121-126 inserted, in a larger and less ornate script).
Fols. 127r, 147v-148v: King Philip II.
Fols. 127r, 147r-v: Alexander the Great.
Fols. 127r, 128v, 147r: Aristotle.
Fol. 127v: Heraclides.
Fol. 127v: Eurybiades.
Fols. 127v-128r: Heurippes.
Fol. 129r: Anaximenes.
Fol.129r-v: Archytas.
Fols. 129v-130r: King Antigonus.
Fol. 130r: Zeno.
Fol. 130r-v: Periander.
Fol. 130v: Thrasybulos.
Fol. 130v: King Amasis.
Fols. 131r-146r: Isocrates (written in a slightly different script).
Fols. 150r-162v: Demosthenes.
Fols. 163r-170v: Aeschines.
Fols. 163v-164r: Ctesiphon.
Fols. 171r-180v: Brutus of Rome (in a different writing).
Fols. 181r-182r: Libanius.
Fols. 182r, 211v-212v, 213r-214r, 221r-v: Emperor Julian.
Fol. 214r-v: Basil the Great.
Fols. 215-226r: Various authors (Thales, Solon, Pisistrates, Epimenides, Chelon, Pittakos, Cleobulos, Arcesilaus, Epicurus, Alexandros the Great, Darius, Velissarius, etc.).
Fols. 227r-241r: Sinesius.
(Not listed in Pinakes).

Copied and owned by Lascaris, Constantine, 1434-1501?.
Fol. 214v: Κτῆμα ποθεινὸν Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ Λάσκαρεως ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἐν Μεδιολάνῳ ἐκγραφὲν ,αυξβ΄ (in a lighter/red? ink): Τὰ δὲ ἐντεῦθεν ὕστερον ἐν Μεσήνῃ ἐκγεγράφατο. Δὶς ἐδέθη.
Fol. 241v: Κωνστανίνου Λασκάρεως πόνημα καὶ κτῆμα.

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