Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Annotations

Authors

• Demosthenes
• Aeschines
• Isocrates

Other related names

• Reuchlin, Johann, 1455-1522, editor
• Piovano, Giuliano Attilio, 1881-, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1242
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943751833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/238773914
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4375183

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Greek, with Greek and Latin annotations

Origin

Date

after 1543

Place

Paris?

Summary

Two student texts of the Attic orators Demosthenes and Aeschines from the prosecution of Athenian orator Ctesiphon, edited by German humanist Johann Reuchlin, published in Paris by Christian Wechel in 1543, together with an edition of Isocrates' Encomium Helenae published in Paris by Joannes Lodoicus (Jean Loys) in 1538. 64 pages of Demosthenes's oration On the crown have extensive interlinear annotations in Latin and marginal annotations in Greek. The opening of the Helen is annotated in the same manner.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; title for book on printed title page (p. 1) is Tōn tēs Hellados exochōn rhētorōn Aischinou kai Dēmosthenous logoi antipaloi.
   

Extent

90 leaves : 231 x 166 (168 x 91) mm. bound to 232 x 167 mm

Collation

Paper, 90; 1-19⁴ 20⁶ 21-22⁴; [1], 2-162, [163-180]; contemporary printed pagination, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contract in Latin on parchment, lacking beginning, probably in a French hand (Martayan Lan).

Script

Annotations in a minuscule hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Giuliano Attilio Piovano (bookplate on verso of vellum reinforcement, G. A. Piovano, with motto Panta kai ouden, and inscription "All' amico Piovano con franca amicizia, [G. Vitalis?], Torino, XXII Settembre del MCMXII, p. 180).
   
• Sold by Martayan Lan (New York), 2008.
   

Subjects topical

• Oratory--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Orations
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Hybrid book
• 16th century
• France
• Annotated
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Peri staseo?s tou kata Kte?sipho?ntos logou, p. 1
• 7 — Aischinou rhe?toros kata Kte?sipho?ntos, p. 7
• 77 — Aibaniou hupothesis tou peri tou stephanou logou, p. 77
• 79 — De?mosthenous ho peri tou stephanou logos, p. 79
• 165 — Isokratous Helene?s enko?mion, p. 165

Decorations

• Front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Front cover
• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside front cover
• 1 — Printed emblem, p. 1
• 2 — Inhabited initial (printed), Initial C, p. 2
• 4 — Inhabited initial (printed), Initial Eta, p. 4
• 7 — Inhabited Initial (printed), Initial Tau, p. 7
• 79 — Inhabited initial (printed), Initial Pi, p. 79
• 164 — Printed emblem, p. 164
• 165 — Printed emblem, p. 165
• 180 — Owner signature, p. 180
• Inside back cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside back cover
• Back cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Back cover