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MS. Barocci 50

Summary Catalogue no.: 50

Grammatical and poetical texts, including:

Language(s): Greek

Musaeus, Hero and Leander

Language(s): Greek

Ps.-Homer, Batrachomyomachia

Language(s): Greek

Physiologus

Language(s): Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Ornamental headpieces, strips and decorated initials. (Hutter i. 10, Abb. 57–9)

History

Origin: 10th century, first half ; Byzantine, Constantinople

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Greek Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues I, repr. 1969, with corrections, from the ed. of 1853). Decoration, localization and date follow Hutter (1977–1982).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 5

Quarto Catalogue, Col. 70

Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 71–72

Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 73–74

Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 75–76

Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 77–78

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile of part 1)
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile of part 2)
Digital Bodleian (11 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Irmgard Hutter, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften, I-III, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 3 vols. in 4 (Stuttgart, 1977–82), i, 10, Abb. 57–9