The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

R.16.35

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Shelfmark	R.16.35
Manuscript Title	Homer, Iliad
Alternative Title	Homeri Ilias
James Number	983
Date	1530s
Century	15^th 16^th
Physical Description	12 lines to a page. Well written. The edges of the leaves have circles painted on them in red, in one of which is the word ΟΜΗΡΟΣ. The paper contains various watermarks: Scale (Watermark height: 50 mm, width: 50 mm) in the middle of the folio comparable to Briquet 2519, dated 1533. Cardinal’s hat with a cloverleaf within the hat, tassel cloverleaf-shaped (Watermark height: 65 mm, width: 45 mm) in the middle off the folio, without correspondence to the main repertoires. Anchor (Watermark height: 65 mm, width: 30 mm) in the middle of the folio comparable to Briquet 484, dated 1530. Cardinal’s hat (Watermark height: 45 mm, width: 40 mm) in the middle of the folio comparable to Piccard Online 32086, dated 1529. Fleur de Lys ( Watermark height: 50 mm, width: 35 mm) in the middle ofthe folio comparable to Briquet 7293, dated 1533.
Provenance	Given by Dr Richard Bentley, in 1757. Richard Bentley, rector of Nailstone from 1745 to 1786 was literary executor for his uncle Richard Bentley (1662-1742), Master of Trinity. In the volume is a note by Walter Leaf M.A. (formerly Fellow), dated 25 May 1884, to the effect that the MS. is known as the Codex Mori having belonged to John More [Moore], Bishop of Ely: "It was collated (very carelessly) by Barnes, whose readings have been followed by Heyne and La Roche. It is one of the best of the second class of MSS. of the Iliad, but appears to be more carelessly written in the later books. See La Roche, Homerisch Textkritik, Leipzig 1866, p.466, no.62."
Donor	Bentley, Richard (c1704-1786), Rector of Nailstone, Fellow Of Trinity (1728)
Size (cm)	33 x 21
Folio	4 + 669 ff.
Material	Paper
Language	Greek
Collation	a⁴ \| α⁸-ιζ⁸ ιη⁶ ιθ⁸-πδ⁸ (wants 8).
Manuscript Summary	This manuscript is a complete copy of Homer's Iliad, with hypotheses, copied by Andreas Donos (Ἀνδρέας Δῶνος) in 1530s. The manuscript was also meant to contain the scholia, as the folios have been ruled to receive them. By comparison with the reading of the Codex Mori used by Joshua Barnes for his 1711 edition, Walter Leaf identified R.16.35 in 1884 as the codex used by the philologist and belonging to the bishop of Ely John Moore (1646-1714; cf. note f. [b] recto). The manuscript, however, does not appear in the list of John Moore's manuscript in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697), or in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now CUL MS Oo.7.50.2, compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735) in 1715. Notes regarding the watermarks and executive summary were contributed by Dr Matteo Di Franco.
IIIF Manifest URL	https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.16.35/manifest.json
Online Since	26/04/2021