MS. D'Orville 188

Summary Catalogue no.: 17066

1. (fol. 1)

Astronomical calculations, chiefly of eclipses

Rubric: Σύνταγμα Ψηφιφορικὸν καὶ σύνοδος πανσέληνος. 'Εκλειψις ήλίου καὶ σελήνης. Εὔρεσις ἀκριβής. Τονηθεȋσα [sic] παρα τού ἱερωτάτου μητροπολίτου ϴεσσαλονίκης καὶ έξάρχου πάσης θετταλίας κυρίου 'Iσηδώρου

Language(s): Greek

2. (fol. 15)

Glosses on Oppian, Halieutica

From i. 126 (''Ραδινόν τό λεπτόν') to v. 546. Printed, see below, Provenance.

Language(s): Greek

3. (fol. 18)

Bartholomew of Edessa (?), Contra Muhammed

Rubric: Κατά Μωαμεδ

Incipit: Kατὰ Σαρακινὢν οἴ καλούνται 'Iσμαηλἴται.

Daniel J. Sahas, 'Bartholomeus of Edessa on Islam: A Polemicist with Nerve!', in id., Byzantium and Islam: Collected Studies on Byzantine-Muslim Encounters (2022), 383-402, at 383.

Language(s): Greek

4. (fol. 24v)

Bartholomew of Edessa, Confutatio Agareni

Rubric: 'Ελγχος 'Αγαρηνοὔ πρὸς Χριστιανόν ούκ ἔχει ἀρχὴν τὸ ἀμφίβολον

Incipit: 'O Χριστιανός. Καὶ οὔτως εὗρον ταύτα ἐν τῷ Κουρανίω σου γεγραμμένα

Final rubric: Tέλος τού βιβλίου τού ἀκαθάρτου Μονχαμέτ

See Sahas, as cited above.

Language(s): Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: iii + 64 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 6.375 × 4.5 in.

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

This volume originally contained a treatise of Methodius Περί τών ἐθνών ἀποδημίας κτλ. (18 leaves) and a treatise Περὶ των οβ' 'Ερμηνευτών. There is a full account of this MS. and of art. 2 in particular in the Miscellaneae Observationes Criticae, vol. ix, tom i (1738), pp. 100-139.

Gabriel Severos (-1616): E. Elia, R. Piccione, 'A Rediscovered Library. Gabriel Severos and His Books', in R. Piccione (ed.), Greeks, Books and Libraries in Renaissance Venice, (Berlin - Boston, De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 33-82, at 35 n. 13.

Owned and annotated by 'Ianus Rutgersius' (Johannes Rutgers, 1589-1625) in 1608.

In 1738 it appears to have been in the public Library at Amsterdam (Miscellaneae Observationes Criticae, cited above): i.e. the library of the Athenaeum Illustre.

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804