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MS. Rawl. G. 93

Summary Catalogue no.: 14821

Contents

Aristotle, De virtutibus

In Greek with a Latin version by Georgius Hermonymus dedicated to John Sherwood, bishop of Durham (d. 1494). Later English glosses with dedicatory epistle to Margaret, countess of Cumberland.

Language(s): Latin, Greek, and Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

The Greek text was written by G. Hermonymus. Latin text in humanist script.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 794, pl. LIX:

Fine marginal drawing based on a portrait of Louis XII.

Borders.

Initials.

History

Origin: 1484–1494 ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Greek Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues I, repr. 1969, with corrections, from the ed. of 1853) and supplementary sources.
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 359
Quarto Catalogue, Col. 712

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.