Unidentified geography

Description

Title: Unidentified geography
Published / Created: [ca. 1720-30]
Publication Place: Constantinople
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of Unidentified Geography, translated into modern Greek from Latin by Demetrius Notaras. With Dedication to Chrysanthus Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1707-33).
Description: In Greek.
Script: The text was written by two scribes in similar styles of minuscule. Scribe 1 (pp. 1-238) is the same scribe (Constantine Raphael Byzantinus) as that designated as Scribe 1 in Beinecke MSS 294, 295 and 300, etc.; Scribe 2 copied pp. 239-586. A third person supplied the Table of Contents at the beginning of the codex (pp. i-xv).
No ornamentation or rubrication.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Near Eastern. Brown goatskin with a deeply impressed medallion containing a crown, sword, sceptre, eagle, bull and I. K., N. B., originally gilt. Title gold-tooled. Spattered edges.
Provenance: Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 7673). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
Extent: ff. iii + ix + 293 + iii : 160 x 103 (123 x 79) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, ca. 1663-1731.
Subject (Topic): Geography
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, ca. 1663-1731
Geography
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Unidentified Geography. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.