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MS. D'Orville 73

Summary Catalogue no.: 16951

Contents

1. (p. 1)
Euripides, Hecuba

With scholia

Language(s): Greek
2. (p. 89)
Euripides, Orestes

With scholia

Language(s): Greek
3. (p. 239)
Sophocles, Ajax

With scholia

Language(s): Greek
4. (p. 359)
Sophocles, Electra

With scholia

Language(s): Greek

A note of the 16th century on p. vii states that the scholia are by Thomas Magister (Theodulus)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
xviii + 490 pages
Dimensions (binding): 8.25 × 6 in.

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

See MS. D'Orville 133, Item 2, for an eighteenth-century collation of Item 3, Ajax, from this manuscript

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 (May 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 56

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)