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Beinecke MS 532
Basilius, Saint, the Great, abp. of Caesarea, 330(ca.) - 379. De legendis
gentilium libris. Bound with various treatises on grammar and rhetoric,
including works of Constantinus Lascaris, Georgios Choeroboskos, Manuel the
Rhetorician, Theodorus Prodromus, Maximus Planudes, Corinthus, Phrynichus, and
Tryphon, and several literary texts, including the Aurea carmina of Pythagoras,
Hymni Orphici, Epistolae of Michael Apostolios and Synesius Cyrenaeus, and the
Dialogus of Theophylactus Simocatta, and a printed text: Porphyrius, Liber
Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris, Rome, 1518. Greek manuscript.
Italy, 13th-16th centuries. Vellum and paper. 664 ff. (206 x 148 mm.)
irregular format. Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological
tables at end. Bound in brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing.
Comments: The printed text, which is not foliated, is bound between ff. 454
and 455. It is missing the final page of the first quire (Cf. Gfp 83. n518).
ff. 2r-14v (vellum) St. Basilius, De legendis gentilium libris.
ff. 75r-104v; 196r-199r Constantinus Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium.
ff. 107r-129r Georgios Choeroboskos, Grammatica.
ff. 134r-136r Manuel the Rhetorician, Opusculum.
ff. 137r-160v Theodorus Prodromus, Erotemata.
ff. 178r-195v Michael syncellus, De constructione libellus.
ff. 202r-233v Maximus Planudes, De constructione libellus.
ff. 236r-262r Corinthus, De dialectis.
ff. 282r-293v Phrynichus, Eclogae nominum et verborum Atticorum.
ff. 296r-297v Tryphon, De passionibus dictionum.
ff. 344r-353r Constantinus Lascaris, De pronominibus.
f. 455r Pythagoras, Aurea carmina.
ff. 455r-460v Hymni Orphici.
ff. 463r-471r Michael Apostolios, Epistolae.
ff. 473r-574r Synesius Cyrenaeus, Epistolae.
ff. 575r-587v Theophylactus Simocatta, Dialogus.
ff. 619r-636v; 651r-664r Astronomical Tables.
Monastery of St. Anastasia. Bookplate of Edouard Le Barbier, Rouen (1856).
Purchased from Edwin Engelberts, 10 April 1973, with funds from the E.J.
Beinecke Legacy.