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Composite manuscript, six parts or fragments (Greek): 1. (ff. 1-74) Progymnasmata / Aphtonius of Antioch, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 75-79) Various texts on astronomy and natural history. - and other part(s), BPG 74 E

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Title	Composite manuscript, six parts or fragments (Greek)
Subtitle	1. (ff. 1-74) Progymnasmata / Aphtonius of Antioch, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 75-79) Various texts on astronomy and natural history. - and other part(s), BPG 74 E
Content	Part 1 contains, in Greek: (ff. 1r-47v) Progymnasmata / Aphtonius of Antioch. - (ff. 49r-52) Commentarius in Aristotelis Categoriae. - (f. 53r-v) De Octo partibus orationis / Michael Psellos. - (ff. 53v-57v) Commentarius in Apthonii Progymnasmata / John Doxopatres. - (ff. 59v-64v) Definitio artis logicae. - (ff. 65r-67v) De propositionibus poeticis. - (ff. 68r-74v) De epigrammatibus. - Empty: ff. 48r-v, 59r. Part 2 contains, in Greek: (ff. 75r-79r) Various texts on astronomy and natural history. Part 3 contains, in Greek: (ff. 80r-85v) Expositio in syntaxim Persarum / Georgius Chrysococcas. Incomplete. Part 4 contains, in Greek: (ff. 86r-93v) Astronomical treatise. Part 5 contains, in Greek: (ff. 94r-95v) Introductio in Isaaci Judaei Viam puram / Matthaeus Camariota. - (ff. 96r-107r) Expositio syntagmatis canonum astronomicorum Judaicorum / Georgius (or Michael?) Chrysococcas. - (ff. 108-132) Astronomical tables. Part 6 contains, in Greek: (ff. 133r-157v) Commentarius parvus in Ptolemaei canones / Theon of Alexandria. Incomplete.
Creator/other	Aphthonius (active 4th century-5th century) Camariota, Matthaeus Chrysococcas, Georgius (fl. 1340s) Johannes Doxapatres (11th century) Psellus, Michael (1018-1078/96) Theon Alexandrinus (4e E)
Shelfmark	BPG 74 E
Subject (topical)	Reading culture artes (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century
Note	Script: (part 1) Written by two scribes: ff. 1r-47v, 49r-52v, 65r-74v (A), and ff. 53r-58v, 59v-64v (B). - (part 2) Written by several scribes (difficult to distuingish). - (part 5) Written by two scribes: ff. 94r-107r, 109r-126v, 132r (D), and ff. 108r-v, 127r-131r (D). Binding: Post-medieval binding (18th century) Textual: (ff. 80r-85v) Greek adaptation of the Zīj-i Ilkhānī / Nasīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. - (f. 94r-95v) Astronomical treatise; Greek adaptation of: Orah Selulah (The Paved Way) / Isaac ben Salomon ben Zaddiq Alhadib. - (ff. 133r-157v) Scholia on Ptolemy's Tabulae manuales. Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Geel 1852): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290750 Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294 Description (De Meyier 1965): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:120465 Also described by Pinakes.
Reference	Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), De Meyier 1965 = K.A. de Meyier, Codices Bibliothecae Publicae Graeci. Leiden 1965, Diller 1972 = A. Diller, 'Joannes Canabutzes and Michael Chrysococces », Byzantion. Revue Internationale des Études Byzantines, 42, 1972, p. 257-258, Duhoux-Tihon 1987 = A. Duhoux-Tihon, 'Les tables astronomiques persanes à Constantinople dans la première moitié du XIVe siècle'. In: Byzantion 57 (1987), p. 471-487, Duhoux-Tihon = A. Tihon, 'Astronomie juive à Byzance'. In: Byzantion 87 (2017), p. 323-347, Geel 1852 = J. Geel, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum qui inde ab anno 1741 bibliothecae Lugduno Batavae accesserunt. Leiden 1852, McKendrick 2020 = S. McKendrick, 'Collecting Greek manuscripts in eighteenth-century England: the origins, scope and legacy of the collections of Richard Mead and Anthony Askew'. In: Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 25 (2020), part 1, p. 85-109 Pinakes = Pinakes. Textes et manuscrits grecs
Language	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Country	No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent	electronic resource
Published/created	Part 1: Origin unknown, 17th century - Parts 2, 5: Origin unknown, 16th century - Parts 3-4: Origin unknown, 15th century - Part 6: Origin unknown, 14th century, second half
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3299116
Published (digital)	Leiden University Libraries,