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MS. Barocci 137

Summary Catalogue no.: 137

Plutarch

Language(s): Greek

1. (fols. 1r–269r)

Plutarch, vitae

1a. (fols. 1r–12v)

Theseus

1b. (fols. 12v–17v, 21r–23v, 18r–20v, 24r–28v)

Romulus

Language(s): Greek

1c. (fols. 28v–41v)

Solon

1d. (fols. 41v–52r)

Poplicola

1e. (fols. 52r–64v)

Themistocles

1f. (fols. 64v–81r)

Camillus

On fol. 77v the scribe originally omitted 34. 3 κυκλωϲάμενοϲ – 34. 5 τοὺϲ πολεμίουϲ, and later added it in the margins of fols. 77v–78r

1g. (fols. 81r–95r)

Aristeides

1h. (fols. 95r–109v)

Cato

1i. (fols. 109v–119v)

Cimon

1j. (fols. 119v–143v)

Lucullus

1k. (fols. 143v–159r)

Pericles

1l. (fols. 159r–172r)

Fabius Maximus

Fols. 167 and 170 are bound upside-down and reversed

1m. (fols. 172v–186v)

Nicias

1n. (fols. (186v–205)

Crassus

1o. (fols. 205v–214v, 218rv, 216r–217v, 215rv, 219r–220r)

C. Marcius

1p. (fols. 220r–222v, 225rv, 224rv, 223rv, 226r–227v, 229rv, 228rv, 230r–234v, 236rv, 235rv, 237r–238r)

Alcibiades

1q. (fols. 238r–249r)

Demosthenes

1r. (fols. 249r–269r)

Cicero

—Fol. 269v blank.

2. (fols. 270r–317v)

Arrian, Alexandri Anabasis,

as far as 4. 27. 3 κατὰ ϲφᾶϲ, pr. A.G. Roos, Teubner 1907, vol. i. The original hand stops (fol. 295r) at 2. 10. 1 γνώμῃ δεδουλωμένοϲ. At fol. 310r the scribe omitted 3. 16. 3 καὶ τὴν πόλιν – 4. 2. 1 ὡϲ πρὸϲ τοὺϲ. Fols. 314v and 315r are blank, but there is no lacuna. From fol. 316v (4. 13) the text is abridged.

Language(s): Greek

—Fols. 318r–323v blank.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Oriental paper (except fols. 296–323, 15th cent., watermarked with design not in the repertoria).

Extent: i + 323 leaves.

Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 165 mm.

Dimensions (ruled): 175 × 110 mm.

Foliation: Foliated (i), 1–295, (296–323).

Collation

(fol. 1) i–iii 8, (fol. 25) iv 5 leaves, (fol. 30) v 8, (fol. 38) vi 7 leaves, (fol. 45) vii–xxviii 8, (fol. 221) xxix 7 leaves, (fol. 228) xxx 9 leaves, (fol. 237) xxxi–xxxiv 8, (fol. 269) xxxv 1, (fol. 270) xxxvi–xxxviii 8, (fol. 294) xxxix 2, (fol. 296) xl 8, (fol. 304) lxi 14. Quires numbered on the bottom right centre margin of the first recto.

Layout

29 ruled lines. Ruling type Leroy 32C1.

Hand(s)

One scribe.

Decoration

Rubrication: titles, headings and initials in vermilion and carmine.

Additions: Interlinear glosses of Renaissance date on fols. 1–6 and occasionally elsewhere.

Binding

Binding of blind-stamped brown leather over wood, late Byzantine style, 15th–16th cent.; five metal ornaments on each panel, remains of clasps. A piece of paper on the spine has the no. ‘137’ twice and ‘Plutarchi Vitae / Arriani de exped. Alex.’.

History

Origin: 14th century

Record Sources

Description by Nigel Wilson, c. 1970. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars prima recensionem codicum Graecorum continens, Quarto Catalogues I, 1883, repr. with corrections 1969).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 7

Quarto Catalogue, Col. 238

Quarto Catalogue, Col. 239