Leyde. Universiteitsbibliotheek, VGQ 6

Source

Digital Collections (Leiden University Libraries)

Library

Leiden University Libraries

Shelfmark

• VGQ 6

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q147954

Date

• Origin unknown, 14th century

Language

• Ancient Greek

Title

• Tragoediae (Greek)
• Aeschyli tragoediae tres
• Prometheus vinctus
• Septem in Thebas
• Septem contra Thebas
• Sophoclis tragoediae tres
• Persae
• Aiax
• Ajax
• Electra
• Oedipus tyrannus
• Prometheus / Aeschylus, and other text(s), VGQ 6
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Agent

• Preferred form

  • Sophocle (0496?-0406 av. J.-C.)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Sophocles.

  Other form

  • Sophocle
  • SOPHOCLES
  • SOPHOCLE
  • Sophocles
  • Sophocles, ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.
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  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdatacdfcec1058aa1cdad4d128d4057cb9a6c047d46a

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q15422

• Preferred form

  • Eschyle (0525?-0456 av. J.-C.)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Aeschylus.

  Other form

  • ÆSCHYLUS
  • ESCHYLE
  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Aeschylus
  • Aeschilus
  • Aeschyles
  • Eschyles
  • Aeschylus, v525-v456
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  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdatad9ff08672b62f0dd4b44d395bef69868a4145553

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q4359

• Preferred form

  • Isaac Vossius (1618-1689)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • Vossius, Isaac (1618-1689)

  Other form

  • VOSSIUS (Isaacus)
  • Isaac Vossius (1618-1689)
  • Vossius, I. (1618-1689)
  • Vossius, I.(1618-1689)
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  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdatae93820c20973d51275798b81d01ae452e4060c94

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  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q7801

Description

• Form:
  1 volume, 42 leaves : pen-flourished ornaments and initials, drawing ; c.255x175 mm
  Content:
  Contains tragedies by Aeschylus and Sophocles, with interlinear glosses and scholia in separate columns (1-3), all in Greek: (ff. 1r-8r Prometheus vinctus / Aeschylus. Incomplete (first leaves missing). - (ff. 8v-15r) Septem contra Thebas / Aeschylus. With preceding introduction and list of characters. - (ff. 15r-21r) Persae / Aeschylus. With preceding introduction and list of characters. - (f. 21v) Vita Sophoclis. - (ff. 21v-29v) Ajax / Sophocles. With preceding introduction and list of characters (21v-22r). - (ff. 29v-36r) Electra / Sophocles. With preceding introduction and list of characters (29v). - (ff. 36v-42r) Oedipus tyrannus / Sophocles. With preceding introduction and list of characters (36v). - (f. 42v) Various notes in later hands; drawing of a sailing ship.
  Note:
  Paper damaged due to insects and wear, water stained; ff. 1 and 40 severely mutilated. - Double leaf 19/20 in Persae misbound, causing disorder of text (ed. Dindorf 1851): vss. -614 (f. 18v), 799-1024 (f. 19r-v), 615-798 (f. 20r-v), 1025- (f. 21r).
  Binding: Post-medieval binding (18th century).
  Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
  Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
  Description (De Meyier 1955): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:111485
  Also described by Pinakes.
  Part of the library of Isaac Vossius, which was bought from his heirs in 1690.
  Part of:
  Vossius, I. (1618-1689)
  Subject (temporal):
  Middle Ages
  14th century

Rights

• Leiden University Libraries

License

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Digitisation

• http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:4169883

Manifest URL

• https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/iiif_manifest/item:4169883/manifest

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