Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 403

  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, fonds principal, 403
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 403
    • CCCC MS 403
    • Corpus Christi College, Parker Library, MS 403
    • MS 403
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  • Languages : Greek, Latin
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in two good hands
  • Support Material : Paper
  • Composition :
    • ff. 120
  • Dimensions :
    • 147 x 215
  • Codicological details :
    • text 22 and 19 lines to a page
    • ff. i-ii + 1-121 + iii
    • 1(10)-12(10).

Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : CCCC MS 403, in Greek, is one of the books believed in Parker's time to have come from Canterbury and ultimately from Theodore of Tarsus (d. 690), archbishop of Canterbury. It is a typical late fifteenth-century paper copy of the three most commonly studied plays of Euripides, Hecuba, Orestes (wrongly entitled Electra) and Phoenissae, with Palaeologan scholia. It is written by two hands (A: ff. 1-41v; B: ff. 42-118r).


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : grec, latin


    Intervenants :

    Euripides - author

    1r-30r - Euripides, Hecuba

    Note : (1r) In red capitals

    rubric : (1r) ΕὐριπίδουἙκάβη

    rubric : (1r) προλογίζει εί̓δωλον πολυδ́ωρου

    incipit : (1r) ́̔Ηκω νεκρω̑ν κευθμω̑να, κ.τ.λ.

    explicit : (30r) στερρ̀α γ̀αρ ἀνάγκη

    rubric : (30r) Τέλος

    Note : (2r) Scholia begin on f. 2r


    30r-72v - Euripides, Orestes

    rubric : (30r) δρα̑μα δέυτερον εὐριπίδους

    incipit : (30r) Ὀρέστης τ̀ον φόνον του̑ πατρ̀ος μεταπορευόμενος

    explicit : (30r) καθαρέντι (!) δ̀ε του̑ φόνου ά̓ργους ά̓ρχειν

    incipit : (30v) Ἡ μ̀εν σκην̀η του̑ δράματος ὑπόκειται ἐν ά̓ργει

    explicit : (30v) πάντες φαυ̑λοι η̑̓σαν

    rubric : (30v) Τ̀α του̑ δράματος πρόσωπα

    rubric : (31r) ΕὐριπίδουἨλέκτρα (l. Ὀρέστης)

    incipit : (31r) Οὐκ έ̓στιν οὐδ̀εν, κ.τ.λ.

    Note : Scholia

    incipit : (31r) Πάθος ... σ́ωματος τ̀ο τραυ̑μα κὰι ἡ πληγ̀η

    Note : At top of f. 37r in a Western hand, lined through

    Note : (37r) νεπιος και καλιφρον stultus et insipiens

    Note : (69r) Similarly on f. 69r are the words βιβλιος and ὀ Θωμας

    Note : (42r) The second hand begins after l. 490

    Note : (42r) ὀργ̀η γ̀αρ ά̔μα

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (72v) κὰι μ̀η λήγοις στεφανου̑σα

    Note : Scholia end

    explicit : (72v) ὁλοσχερω̑ς κὰι τω̑ν μίκτων


    73r-118r - Euripides, Phoenissae

    rubric : (73r) Δρα̑μα τρίτον Εὐριπίδους

    incipit : (73r) Ἐτεοκλη̑ς παραλαβ̀ων τ̀ην τω̑ν Θηβω̑ν βασιλείαν

    explicit : (73r) τ̀ην δυστυχίαν ἐλεήσας

    rubric : (73r) Τ̀α του̑ δράματος πρόσωπα

    rubric : (73v) Εὐριπίδου Φοίνισσαι

    rubric : (73v) ̑̓Ω τ̀ην ἐν ά̓στροις

    Note : On f. 82r in the Western hand

    Note : (82r) ανθρωπος. (homo) βελτιστε. φιλος

    Note : Ends

    explicit : (118r) κὰι μ̀η λήγοις στεφανου̑σα

    rubric : (118r) Τέλος του̑ εὐριπίδου

    Note : Scholia end

    explicit : (118r) ἀντίχαριν οὐκ έ̓χουσαν

    Note : On f. 118v in the Western hand: anser χήν, cornu πέρας (!)

    Note : ff. 119r-120v blank

Texts in this manuscript

Data Source: Pinakes

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Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Additions: At top of f. 1r a small erasure and, in Roman hand of cent. xvi: Liber quondam Theodori Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis.
  • Research: The MS. was used by Porson for his text of the Hecuba. It is described by Paley, Eurip. III xxxii, and a facsimile of a few lines is given

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