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MS. Holkham Gr. 96

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Diktyon no.: 48164

Plutarch, Parallel Lives

Contents

Language(s): Greek

Plutarch, Parallel Lives
1. (fol. iii(v))

List of Lives in Latin by a later hand (possibly of 16th c.).

Language(s): Latin
2. (fols 1r-21v)

Lycurgus, ed. B. Perrin, Plutarch's lives, vol. 1, Cambridge, Mass, 1914 (repr. 1967), pp. 204–302; fol. 1r: a later hand added the name in Latin as: Lygurgi.

3. (fols 22r-42v)

Numa, ed. B. Perrin, Plutarch's lives, vol. 1, pp. 306–382; fol. 22r: a later hand added the name in Latin as: Numae.

4. (fols 42v-61r)

Solon, ed. K. Ziegler, Plutarchi vitae parallelae, vol. 1.1, 4th edn., Leipzig, 1969, pp. 82–123; fol. 42v: a later hand added the name in Latin as: Solonis

5. (fols 61r-76v)

Publicola, ed. K. Ziegler, Plutarchi vitae parallelae, vol. 1.1, pp. 124–152; fol. 61v: a later hand added the name in Latin as: Publicolis

6. (fols 76v-94v)

Aristides, ed. K. Ziegler, Plutarchi vitae parallelae, vol. 1.1, pp. 249–287. A later hand added the name in Latin as: Aristidis.

7. (fols 94v-114r)

Cato maior, ed. K. Ziegler, Plutarchi vitae parallelae, vol. 1.1, pp. 287–324.

8. (fols 114r-132r)

Themistocles, ed. K. Ziegler, Plutarchi vitae parallelae, vol. 1.1, pp. 157–197.

9. (fols 132r-157v)

Camillus, ed. K. Ziegler, Plutarchi vitae parallelae, vol. 1.1, pp. 197–248.

10. (fols 157v-171r)

Cimon, ed. K. Ziegler, Plutarchi vitae parallelae, vol. 1.1, pp. 332–359.

11. (fols 171r-183v)

Lucullus, ed. K. Ziegler, Plutarchi vitae parallelae, vol. 1.1, pp. 359–419.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: iii + 183 + ii at the end foliated as 184–185.
Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 200 mm.

Collation

1 × 2 (ii), iii is pasted to fol. 1, 22 × 8 (176), 1 × 8 (183; 1 unfoliated folio after fol. 178), 1 × 2 (185).

Layout

29 lines per page

Hand(s)

Μανουὴλ Γρηγορόπουλος, RGK I, 249; RGK II, 342; RGK III, 411; Álbum de copistas de manuscritos griegos en España, I, 49 Gregoropulus, Manuel (accessed 12 February 2020). Old attribution to Γεώργιος Γρηγορόπουλος, father of Μανουήλ, was erroneous. See R. Stefec, ‘Der Codex Seitenstettensis des Plutarch’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 156 (2013) 180, fn. 29.

Decoration

Nice decorative initial only on fol. 1r, as the rest remained unfinished.

Additions: fol. iii(v): left corner, in pencil: 76.

Binding

Typical Holkham binding of brown leather, with Coke family ostrich crest in gilt in the centre of the upper cover; Date: early nineteenth century. Rebound by John Jones of Liverpool (worked for Holkham 1816–1823. The spine lettered in gilt: /PLUTARCHI VITSÆ PARALLELSÆ GR.–//MS. SÆC. XII./; in pasted black leather: MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 96.

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership Notes: Ownership Notes: front paste down (top, right in black ink): signature of Th(oma)s William Coke. fol. 1r: erased notes on top and bottom.

Catalogue Nrs: paste down (in pencil): MS. Holkham Gr. 96; fol. 1(r) (in pencil): No 275 D6B.5. (= Old Catalogue Nrs: Olim Holkham Hall, Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 275)/ Ms. Saec XV.

Record Sources

Description by Dimitrios Skrekas (2020), with the support of the Leventis Foundation, the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, the Yerolemou Trust and the Michael Marks Charitable Trust.

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-08-21: New description by D. Skrekas.