Beinecke MS 244                                                      Italy, s. XV^^med
Xenophon, De re equestri (in Greek)

          ff. 1r-17v    [Greek]. [Greek]. [Greek].

          Knox has collated Beinecke MS 244 with the OCT for Chapters 1-8
     (Ziskind Catalogue, pp. 54-56).

          Paper (watermarks: balance within a circle, surmounted by three
     small circles and a star, is not similar to those in Briquet and
     Harlfinger), ff. ii (paper) + 17 + xxxiv (paper), 210 x 136 (152 x 92)
     mm. Written in 23 long lines; frame-ruled in hard point.
          I^^10, II^^8 (-8). No catchwords or signatures.
          Text is written by a single scribe.
          Title and first letter of text in red.
          Binding: s. xix. Tan calf with gold-tooled title and arms of Henry
     Drury, by C. Lewis (worked 1800-40).

          Written in Italy in the mid-15th century; early provenance
     unknown. Supposedly from the Meerman Library (the codex does not appear
     in the Bibliothecae Meermannianae, v. 4). Collection of Henry Drury
     (1778-1841; arms on cover and signature on f. i recto); his sale
     (Evans, Feb. - March 1827, lot 4678, on spine) to Thorpe for Sir Thomas
     Phillipps (no. 3337; stamp on f. i recto). Purchased from Laurence
     Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957 (MS
     61).

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 45, no. 244. 
	     Ziskind Catalogue, pp. 54- 56.

     Barbara A. Shailor