Details

Subjects:

Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Historiae Philippicae.
History, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.
History, Ancient.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with some Greek notes in margins.

Biography/History:

Professor of history, rhetoric and Greek at the University of Leiden, and later the librarian of the University.

Summary:

A history of ancient kings and kingdoms around the Mediterranean and in Asia. Some of the sections are based upon the Roman historian Justinus' work, and act as a commentary to Justinus.

Contents:

1. p.1-9: Regnum Assyrium.
2.p.10-14: Regnum Medorium.
3. p.15-17: Assyrii reges secundi.
4. p.17-21: Reges Chaldaeorum ex Ptolemaeo.
5. p.22-25: Reges Lydorum.
6. p.26-46: Regnum Aegyptiorum.
7. p.47-54: Reges Persiarum.
8. p.55-76: Reges Atheniensium ad Justino libro 2 capitulo 6.
9. p.77-98: Reges Lacedaemoniorum ad Justino libro 3 capitulo 2.
10. p.99-114: Reges Thebani ad Justino.
11. p.115-142: Reges Macedoniae.
12. p.143-148: Reges Epirotarum.
13. p.149-156: Tiranni Siculorum.
14. p.157-164: Reges Battiadae Cyrenensium.
15. p.165-170: Tyranni Heracleae Ponticae.
16. p.171-177: Regis Pergameni.
17. p.178-189: Reges Aegypti post Alexandrium.
18. p.190-210: Reges Syriae et Asiae post Alexandrium.
19. p.211-227: Reges Parthorum.
20. p.228-248: Index in usum huius libelli.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Pagination: Paper, 131 leaves; [i-x], 1-227, [228-262]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive book hand by Cornelius ab Overmeer (p. 248).
Decoration: Later bookplate with initials BVH inside upper cover and coat of arms; floral and vine motif stamped on covers is repeated in ink on title page.
Binding: Contemporary gilt calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in the Netherlands (Zacour-Hirsch), 1713 (p. 248).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement B. The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 5 (Ms. Latin 260).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1224

Contributor:

Overmeer, Cornelius ab, scribe.

OCLC:

233573963