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MS. D'Orville 72

Summary Catalogue no.: 16950

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Aristophanes, Plutus

With scholia.

Language(s): Greek
2. (fol. 44)
Aristophanes, Nubes

With scholia.

Language(s): Greek
3. (fol. 94v)
Euripides, Hecuba

With scholia.

Language(s): Greek
4. (fol. 138)
Euripides, Orestes

With scholia.

Language(s): Greek
5. (fol. 200)
Sophocles, Ajax

With scholia.

Language(s): Greek
6. (fol. 250)
Sophocles, Electra

With scholia.

Language(s): Greek
7. (fol. 310b)
Hesiod, Works and Days

With scholia.

1-646, 675-780 (άλέασθαι) only, a leaf or two being lost.

Language(s): Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: ii + 338 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.125 × 6.125 in.

Hand(s)

Written by Demetrios Xanthopoulos in 1450/1 (RGK I, no. 98): inscription, fol. 309v (reproduced Summary Catalogue IV p. 56, where the date is give as 1441).

History

Origin: 1450/1

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) from the Summary Catalogue (1897) with additional reference to published literature as cited.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 55
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 56

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-01: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.