[On Currency, Weights and Measures].

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Title:
[On Currency, Weights and Measures].
Date:
1660
Creator:
Tennulius, Samuel, scribe.
Description:

  • Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

  • Format: Manuscript codex.

  • Title supplied by cataloger.

  • Colophon (fol. 72v): In Bibliotheca Regia haec manu mea scripsi Lutetiae Paris Samuel Tennulius Ao MDCLX non Febr.

  • Layout: 1 column of 17-18 lines.

  • Script: Written in a small, faded black minuscule. Uncial initials slightly bigger than the text.

  • Decoration: Ornamental initials and ornamental penwork in faded black ink.

  • Title cataloged from existing description.

  • Former shelfmark: Phillipps MS 2899.

  • Transcription by Samuel Tennulius of a Byzantine manuscript on currency, weights and measures in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Latin script on fol. 2r-3v; fol. 83r-84v bound upside down.

  • Binding: Seventeenth-century pink-stained vellum.

Location:
France
Subject:
Format:
manuscripts (document genre)
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Extent:
81 leaves :paper ; 146 x 91 (100 x 75) mm
Digital Collection:
Early Manuscripts collection
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE006049742
Provenance:
  • Source of acquisition: Gift; Purchased from Alan G. Thomas by Kenneth Willis Clark; 1971
  • Ownership history: Provenance: Sotheby's Bibliotheca Phillippica. Medeival Manuscripts: New Series: Sixth part. 15/16 June, 1970.
  • Ownership history: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • Call number: Greek MS 049
  • 006049742
  • duke:282432
  • emsgk01049
  • ark:/87924/r4kp7tq9k
  • cf25461d-cd49-4b9c-ae04-a2c2225187eb
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