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Date

15th century

Title

Aratus, Phaenomena

Content
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Aratus, Phaenomena (TLG 0653.001), with marginal scholia by Theon.
Phaenomena (TLG 0653.001)

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Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Vita Arati (TLG 4161.005).
Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Vita Arati (TLG 4161.005)

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Hipparchus, In Arati et Eudoxi phaenomena commentariorum libri iii (TLG
1431.003), iii, 3-5.23.
In Arati et Eudoxi phaenomena commentariorum libri iii (TLG 1431.003)

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Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, De zodiaco (TLG 4161.008) 529.10.
Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, De zodiaco (TLG 4161.008)

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Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Proemium in Arati phaenomena (TLG
4161.013).
Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Proemium in Arati phaenomena (TLG
4161.013)

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Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Excerpta varia de phaenomenis Arati (TLG
4161.010).
Vitae Arati et Varia de Arato, Excerpta varia de phaenomenis Arati (TLG
4161.010)

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Adamantius Judaeus, De ventis (TLG 0731.002):
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De ventis (TLG 0731.002)

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Languages

Greek, Ancient

Physical
Description

Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff (iv) + 77 + (iv).
Dimensions: 242 x 152 mm.
Ruling: 185 x 120 mm; 38 lines per page.
Scribal features: The Medici family arms are found in the illuminated
border on the first page.
Binding: Full purple goat leather binding ('alla greca'); wooden boards;
evidence of lost fastening, four metal pins mark on the grooved edges of
the front board and remaining of removed double laced leather straps on
the back board.
Scribes: Copied in Italy for a member of the House of Medici by Demetrios
Damilas ( , Repertorium 1A, no. 93).

Ownership

Belonged to the Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., bishop of Lichfield (d.
1839). Purchased from the library of Samuel Butler, 5 July 1841.

Bibliography

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum,

1841-1845 (London, 1850), 1841, p. 15.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds
Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 20.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten
800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien, 3 vols (Vienna, 1981), no. 93.

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