Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, PER F 6

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  • PER F 6
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  • Part 1: Apennine Peninsula, 15th/16th century - Parts 2, 4: Apennine Peninsula, 15th century, second half - Part 3: Greece, 15th century, c. 1456
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  • Ancient Greek
Title
    • Composite manuscript, four parts (Greek)
    • Liber de Podagra
    • Funebris oratio in laudem Basilii Magni Caesareae in Cappadocia episcopi
    • De inventione Sanctae Crucis
    • Vita Barlaam et Joasaph
    • Historia animalium
    • Physiognomonica
    • Bibliotheca historicarpts
    • Collectio historiarum
    • Macedonica
    • Consolatio ad Apollonium
    • Hellenica
    • Anabasis
    • Alexandri anabasis
    • Historia Indica
    • 2. (ff. 11-85): Excerpts from Aristotle, Anastatius Sinaita and other authors / by Georgius Gemistus Pletho. - 3. (ff. 86-173) Hellenica / Xenophon. - And other part(s), PER F 6
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  • Content:
    Preceded by a table of contents (on f. IIr), part 1 contains: (ff. 1-10): Geographical note (1r); Liber de Podagra / Demetrius Pepagomenus. Excerpt (1r-2r); Funebris oratio in laudem Basilii Magni Caesareae in Cappadocia episcopi (orat. 43) / Gregory of Nazianzus, excerpt (2r-v); De inventione Sanctae Crucis / Alexander (Monachus) of Cyprus (3r-4r), excerpt; Vita Barlaam et Joasaph / John of Damascus, excerpt (4v-5r); psalm commentary, incomplete (5v-10v).
    Part 2 contains: (ff. 11r-29v) Excerpts by Georgius Gemistus Pletho from: Historia animalium / Aristotle (11-17v); Physiognomonica / Aristotle (17v); Bibliotheca historica / Diodorus Siculus (18r-29v). - (f. 30r-v) Empty. - (ff. 31r-34v) Excerpt from Anastasius of Sinai. - (ff. 34v-41r) Various excerpts. - (ff. 41r-44r) Collectio historiarum quarum Gregorius Nazianzenus meminit invectiva adversus Julianum / Pseudo-Nonnus (Nonnus Abbas). Incomplete: 14-20, 22, 13, 23-26, 29-30, 35-36, 40-41, 46, 52, 64-66, 70-72 (Patrologia Graeca 37, 993-). - (ff. 44r-45v) Excerpts on geometry and chronology. - (ff. 46r-73v) Excerpts by Georgius Gemistus Pletho from: Bibliotheca historica / Diodorus Siculus; De gestis Graecorum post pugnam ad Mantineam (46r-63v); Macedonica / Appianus. Excerpt (64r-72v). Empty: f. 63ra, 72vb-73v. - (ff. 74r-v, 85v) Vita Barlaam et Joasaph / John of Damascus. Excerpts. - (ff. 75r-85v) Consolatio ad Apollonium / Plutarchus. Excerpt (75r-85v).
    Part 3 contains: (ff. 86r-173v) Hellenica / Xenophon.
    Part 4 contains: (f. 174-276v) Alexandri anabasis / Arrian. Empty: f. 166v. - (ff. 276v-294v) Historia Indica / Arrian. - (f. 294v) Bibliotheca historica / Diodorus Siculus, excerpt. - Also contains later added notes on ff. 295r-v, 297r298r. Empty: ff. 296r-v, 297v, 298v.
    Note:
    Origin: (part 3) Greece, according to Oleroff 1950.
    Date: (part 2) Produced c. 1456, according to De Gregorio 2000.
    Script: (part 3) Written by Demetrio Trivoli, who copied from codex Bibl. Laurent. plut. 69, nr. 15.
    Illustration: (f. 173v) Drawing of Alexander the Great on horseback.
    Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Leather (brown blind-tooled) over pasteboard; panel-stamped covers.
    Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
    Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
    Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
    Description (De Meyier 1946): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:489849
    Also described by Pinakes.
    Subject (temporal):
    Middle Ages
    15th century
    16th century
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