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Tragoediae (Greek) : Prometheus / Aeschylus, and other text(s), VGQ 6

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Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:4169883
Title	Tragoediae (Greek)
Subtitle	Prometheus / Aeschylus, and other text(s), VGQ 6
Content	Contains tragedies by Aeschylus and Sophocles, with interlinear glosses and scholia in separate columns (1-3), all in Greek: (ff. 1r-8r Prometheus vinctus / Aeschylus. Incomplete (first leaves missing). - (ff. 8v-15r) Septem contra Thebas / Aeschylus. With preceding introduction and list of characters. - (ff. 15r-21r) Persae / Aeschylus. With preceding introduction and list of characters. - (f. 21v) Vita Sophoclis. - (ff. 21v-29v) Ajax / Sophocles. With preceding introduction and list of characters (21v-22r). - (ff. 29v-36r) Electra / Sophocles. With preceding introduction and list of characters (29v). - (ff. 36v-42r) Oedipus tyrannus / Sophocles. With preceding introduction and list of characters (36v). - (f. 42v) Various notes in later hands; drawing of a sailing ship.
Creator/other	Sophocles. Aeschylus. Vossius, Isaac (1618-1689)
Shelfmark	VGQ 6
Subject (topical)	Reading culture classical literature/philosophy (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 14th century
Note	Paper damaged due to insects and wear, water stained; ff. 1 and 40 severely mutilated. - Double leaf 19/20 in Persae misbound, causing disorder of text (ed. Dindorf 1851): vss. -614 (f. 18v), 799-1024 (f. 19r-v), 615-798 (f. 20r-v), 1025- (f. 21r). Binding: Post-medieval binding (18th century). Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294 Description (De Meyier 1955): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:111485 Also described by Pinakes.
Reference	Aubreton 1949 = R. Aubreton, Démétrius Triclinius et les recensions médiévales des Sophocle, 1949, 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), Christodoulos 1977 = G.A. Christodoulos, ed., Ta archaia scholia eis Aianta tou Sophokleous. Athens 1977, De Meyier 1949 = K.A. de Meyier, 'Notes sur quelques manuscrits de Pierre Bourdelot conservés à Leyde'. In: Scriptorium 3 (1949), p. 257-259, De Meyier 1955 = K.A. de Meyier, Codices Vossiani Graeci et Miscellanei. Leiden 1955, Dindorf 1851 = G. Dindorf (ed.), Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta. Vol. 3. Scholia graeca ex codicibus aucta et emendate (Oxford 1851). Herington 1972 = C.J. Herington (ed.), The older scholia on the Prometheus bound. Leiden 1972, Pellegrin 1986 = E. Pellegrin, 'Catalogue des manuscrits de Jean et Pierre Bourdelot. Concordance'. In: Scriptorium 40 (1986), p. 202-232 Pinakes = Pinakes. Textes et manuscrits grecs Senguerdius & 1716 = W. Senguerdius & al., Catalogus librorum tam impressorum quam manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden 1716, Turyn 1944 = A. Turyn, 'The Manuscripts of Sophocles', Traditio 2 (1944), p. 1-41, Turyn 1952 = A. Turyn, Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Sophocles. Urbana 1952, West 2015 = M.L. West, Studies in Aeschylus. Berlin 2015, p. 330-332
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Part of	Vossius, I. (1618-1689)
Language	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Country	No place, unknown, or undetermined
Form	1 volume, 42 leaves : pen-flourished ornaments and initials, drawing ; c.255x175 mm
Extent	97 scans
Published/created	Origin unknown, 14th century