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Hands and Scribes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Extract

In pi. 48 of his Facsimilés de manuscrits grecs des XVe et XVIe Siècles M. Otnont gives a specimen of what purports to be the hand of Valeriano Albini. The MS. from which it is reproduced, Paris, gr. 1687, has at f. 158v τατην δ ββλον Οαλερίανοσ фορολɩβɩεὺσ Άλβνου Ενετὺσɩ, ν τψ το αϒοὐΕνετɩου μοναστηρψ εˣϒραΨε, εˣτη του κυρίον ᾑμων … αϕμ … (Omont, p. 15), which might be thought warranty enough. Unfortunately MS.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1928

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References

1 The same hand is in MS. St. John's Coll. 32.

2 The Bodleian MS. Auct, T. II. 12 has at f. 15 Ουαλερɩˈανοσ ⋯ Αλρίνου κανονɩκοσ τησ Σωτηροσ ημων ταυτην εˣϒραψε βίβλον. but the hand in which this subscription and ff. 2–86 are written is, in fact, that of George Cocolus, for whose habit of taking over the subscription of his exemplar cp. Vogel - Gardthausen, p. 78, notes 5 and 6.

3 This MS. was written Ααυρεντɭψ τψ Αιθοσιδηρψ, who seems to be Sanodo‘s ‘Zuan Lorenzo di Saxoferrato.’ professor of medicine at Pauda in 1518 and the following years (Favaro, Lo studio di Padova … N. Arch. Venet. N.S. XXXVI. [1918] 113). Professor Fologno, to whom I owe this reference, also suggests that Μεσοβωτησ is a Grecised form of the Paduan family name Mezzabatti.