• Pindari Quaedam et Sopho[...] MS.

Collections:

• Digitized Manuscripts
• Ancient and Modern Greek Collections at PUL
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• Hellenica

Date:

• 1420-1425

Language:

• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subject:

• Ajax (Greek mythological figure)—Drama
• Electra (Greek mythological figure)—Drama
• Geography, Ancient
• Greek drama (Tragedy)
• Greek poetry
• Poets, Greek
• Glosses

Description:

• Spine title.
• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: Manuscript is written on 21 lines per page in a brownish ink with interlinear glosses and marginal commentaries in the scribal hand in a red faded ink; nota bene hands and large ornamental initial letters on several pages.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9962377703506421

Call number:

• Princeton MS. 218

Extent:

• 135 folios : paper ; 201 x 142 (150 x 55-75) mm. bound to 207 x 151 mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Publisher:

• [Constantinople ?], ca. 1420-1425]

Title sort:

• Pindari Quaedam et Sopho[...] MS.

Created:

• 1420-01-01T00:00:00Z/1425-12-31T23:59:59Z

Location:

• HSVM Princeton MS. 218

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/h415pk90x

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Type:

• Glosses
• Drama
• Manuscripts, Greek

Text language:

• Greek.

Source acquisition:

• Purchase: Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, 2010. AM 2011-29.

Provenance:

• In 1883, the manuscript was in the library of Baron Frédéric-Edouard de Turckheim à Dachstein (1829-1909), whose engraved bookplate is on the front pastedown. Shelfmark "B 334."

Abstract:

• Greek manuscript on paper containing works by Pindar, Dionysius Periegetes, and Sophocles. Manuscript is bound in early nineteenth-century binding of half vellum and paste paper over paste board sewn in seven cords.

Contents:

• fols. 1r-38v, Pindar (c. 522-443 BC), Olympian Odes I-XIV, with interlinear glosses and occasional marginal commentaries. Cf. E. Abel, ed. Scholia recenta in Pindari Epinicia (Budapest, 1891), 52-428.
• fol. 38v, outer margin, biographical note on Dionysius Periegetes, "Dionysios ho Periēgētēs hyios Dionysiou Alexandreōs." Cf. K. Müller, Geographi Graeci minores (Paris, 1882), vol. 2, xvi.
• fols. 38v-67v, "Dionysiou Alexandreias Periēgētou." Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the World. E. Amato, ed., Descrizione della terra abitata (Milan, 2005); with interlinear glosses and marginal commentaries. Cf. Müller, vol. 2, 427-457.
• fols. 68r-69v, Anonymous Biography of Sophocles. W. Dindorf, ed., Scholia in Sophoclis tragoedias septem (Oxford, 1852), 1-8.
• fols. 69v-70v, Argument (summary) of Sophocles, Ajax. Dindorf, 25-28.
• fol. 70v, Anonymous note on comedy. Cf. W. J. W. Koster, Prolegomena de comoedia (Groningen, 1975), 16.
• fols. 70v-71r, Anonymous note on literary theory. Cf. C. Walz, ed., Rhetores Graeci (Stuttgart, 1832-6), vol. 3, 728.
• fols. 71r-102v, Sophocles (c. 497/6-407/6 BC), Ajax, with interlinear glosses and occasional marginal commentaries. Cf. Dindorf, 196-238.
• fols. 102v-103r, Argument (summary) of Sophocles, Electra. Dindorf, 29-30.
• fols. 103r-135v, Sophocles, Electra, with interlinear gloss and occasional marginal commentaries. Cf. Dindorf, 243-277.