Elegies

Description

Title: Elegies
Creator: Tyrtaeus
Published / Created: [between 1800 and 1900]
Publication Place: Greece
Abstract: Manuscript on 2 vellum scrolls of Tyrtaeus, Elegies, with figure-poems of Dosiadas, Simmias, Besantinus, and Theocritus (attrubuted author), and hymns of Mesomedes and Arion. Said to be third century, but actually 19th-century forgery
Description: In Greek.
Script: Written in Greek capital script in boustrophedon, that is from right to left and from left to right alternatively, a method of writing that was no longer practiced in the third century when these scrolls were purported to have been written.
Preserved in a small wooden cylinder.
Provenance: Sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1854 by Constantine Simonides who is thought to have written them. Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1976.
Extent: ff. 2 : 480 x 55 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: vellum ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Tyrtaeus.
Subject (Topic): Greek poetry
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Tyrtaeus
Greek poetry
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Tyrtaeus, Elegies. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.