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Beinecke MS 255, Halieutica, etc

by Oppian fl. 2nd cent

  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Language: Greek
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Beinecke MS 255. Text(s): Halieutica, etc. Description: ff. i + iv + 138 + iv + i - Nineteenth century. Title in ink on fore edge. Tan calf case with deep geometric indentations, blind-tooled, with a dark blue, gold-tooled calf label. Similar to the bindings of MSS 256 and 258. Possibly bound by Whitaker (we thank A. R. A. Hobson for this information). - Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 6435). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957. - Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 255.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Legends”. Retained metadata contains “Legends” in the subject metadata.

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internet-archive:BeineckeMS255_47
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