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- Title:
- [Christian topography].
- Alternative Title:
- Christian topography. 1682
- Date:
- 1682
- Creator:
- Cosmas, Indicopleustes, active 6th century.
- Contributor:
- Manuscript copy of:Biblioteca medicea laurenziana. Manuscript. Plut. 9. 28.
- Description:
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Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
Format: Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 1 column of 23 lines.
Script: The text is written in a western Greek scholar's hand, open and with considerable fluidity.
Decoration: Occasional penwork ornament and several schematic illustrations from the Laurentian manuscript.
Title cataloged from existing description.
Former shelfmark: Phillipps MS. 2581.
Copy of "Christian topography" from Biblioteca medicea laurenziana Plut. IX.28. The copyist has written: Die 21 junii 1682: Plut. 9. N. 28 Bibl. Laurent. Florentia titulus libri erat Topographia Christiana incerti authoris. There are marginal and interlinear notes which include alternate textual readings. Throughout the copyist has noted the order of the text of the Laurentian manuscript and provided short descriptions of the illuminations, including occasional outline drawings.
Binding: Parchment over boards.
- Location:
- Florence (Italy)
- Subject:
- Format:
- manuscripts (document genre)
- Language:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Extent:
- 182 leaves :paper, illuminations ; 223 x 160 (202 x 140) mm
- Digital Collection:
- Early Manuscripts collection
- Catalog Record:
- https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE006019588
- Provenance:
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- Source of acquisition: Purchase; Sotheby's sale of 25 June 1973, lot 1910; 1973.
- Ownership history: Provenance: Phillipps MS. 2581, bought of Thorpe, with his stamped crest.
- Ownership history: Provenance: Former owner: Gerard Meerman.
- Ownership history: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University).
- Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
- Identifier:
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- Call number: Greek MS 061
- 006019588
- duke:282444
- emsgk01061
- ark:/87924/r4g73744k
- 62e10a56-0910-4063-9351-9e6de175bc3c
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- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4g73744k
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