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MS. Auct. T. 5. 25

Summary Catalogue no.: 30332

Imberios et Margarona Byzantine verse novel, unrhymed version; pr. Lambros, Collection de romans grecs (188), pp. 239ff, with discussion of the manuscript at pp. cx-cxiii. Michael Jeffreys and Elizabeth Jeffreys, 'Imberios and Margarona: the manuscripts, sources and edition of a Byzantine verse romance', Byzantion 41 (1971), 122-160

Language(s): Modern Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 39 leaves, small quarto

History

Origin: 16th century, beginning (c. 1515–16)

Provenance and Acquisition

Summary Catalogue nos. 30328-30332 (Gr. misc. 282, 284-7 = MSS. Auct. T. 5. 20, Auct. T. 5. 22-5) were acquired together with S.C. 28475 (Misc. 283 = MS. Auct. T. 5. 21) from Payne and Foss in 1840 for £3 3s. (see Summary Catalogue V p.789). Lambros, op. cit., p. cxi argued that Misc. 282-7 were originally a single manuscript, with the date 1515-16 (cf. Jeffreys and Jeffreys, op. cit., p. 126) on Misc. 283, fol. 120v. The same folio has the ex libris of Zigaïtès ‘archiereos’

Acquired 1840; see above.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Matthew Holford (July 2022) from 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), with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Quarto Catalogue I, col. 821 (Misc. 287)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 789