Arundel MS 531

Date

2nd half of the 15th century

Languages

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Physical Description

• Material: Paper (bomb.).
• Foliation: ff 178. ff. 137-144 bound upside down and in reverse order.
• Dimensions: 260 x 185 mm.
• Ruling: 210 x 130 mm, ff 1r-88v; 195 x 120 mm, ffr. 89r-178v. Leroy V 00A1 (e.g. ff 62r, 80r), 32-40 lines per page (ff 1r-87r), 26 lines per page (ff 87v-178v).
• Binding: British Museum, 1963.
• Scribes: Change of hand at f. 87v. Three distinct hands, according to Dorandi 2009, p. 18.
• Decoration: Illuminated head- and tailpieces with three busts of figures in medallions and two armorial shields, f 1r.

Ownership

Origin: Italy?Provenance:Johann von Dalberg (b. 1445, d. 1503), Prince-Bishop of Worms: his arms (1. sable a key argent in bend sinister semée with quatrefoils pierced or; 2. azure six fleurs de lys argent a chief dancetté or) integral to tailpiece, f 1r. On his ownership of a copy of Laertius see Walter (2005) pp. 124, 149.? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f.1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.

Bibliography

• Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part I, The Arundel Manuscripts, London 1840, p.161.
• E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 440-445 (p.445, No.159).
• E. Martini, 'Analecta Laertiana. Pars prima', Leipziger Studien zur classischen Philologie 19 (1899) pp. 71-177 (p. 97).
• A. Biedl, Zur Textgeschichte des Laertios Diogenes, Das große Exzerpt Φ (Studi e Testi 184), Vatican 1955, pp. 11, 35, 110 (cod.A).
• The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 15.
• P. Walter, '"Inter nostrae tempestatis Pontifices facile doctissimus". Der Wormser Bischof Johannes von Dalberg und der Humanismus', in Der Wormser Bischof Johann von Dalberg (1482-1503) und seine Zeit, ed. G. Bönnen and B. Keilmann (Quellen und Abhandlungen zur mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte 117), Mainz 2005, pp. 89-152 (pp. 124, 149).
• T. Dorandi, Laertiana. Capitoli sulla tradizione manoscritta e sulla storia del testo delle Vite dei filosofi di Diogene Laerzio (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 264), Berlin 2009, pp. 18-19 (cod. A).