Lexicon to Aristophanes, Clouds

Uppsala, around 1690

paper

i, 63, i' leaves

205 × 160 mm

Greek

1 (pp.1–126) Lexicon to Aristophanes, Clouds

Rubric: ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ εἰς τὰς Νεφέλας Ἀριστοφάνους

Incipit: Ἀβέλτερος

Explicit: ὠχρὸν κομιεῖ τοῦτον

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. LCI, SL1r–SL1v Locus: ff. SR1r–SR1v, RCI

Support: Western paper

Folding: Quarto

Leaf dimensions: 205 × 160 mm

Textblock

Locus: pp. 1–126

Support: Western paper

Folding: Quarto

Leaf dimensions: 205 × 160 mm

Foliation

Modern pagination in pencil in the upper outer corner: 1–126

Collation

Textblock

Formula: _Q1–22.IV^p.32 + _Q3(III+1^p.37–38)^p.46 + _Q4IV^p.62 + _Q5(V-1^{post p.72})^p.80 + _Q6–72.IV^p.112 + _Q8(IV-1^{post p.122})^p.126

Note: Pages 37–38: the leaf is attached with paste to the succeeding leaf. Pages 73–74 are actually two leaves pasted together. Pages 123–124 were also two leaves originally: the first leaf had one column excised and the remainder was pasted onto the following leaf.

Signatures: In the lower center margin of the first recto of each quire.

Catchwords: none

Layout

Locus: pp. 1–126

Columns: 2

Written area: 175/180 × 130/140 mm

Note: Written in two columns, the page folded to provide the dividing line. Number of lines varying.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(pp.1–126) Sveno Laurelius, displaying a neat seventeenth-century hand.

Hand 2

(ff. SL1r–SL1v) Erik Benzelius the Younger: owner’s signature and note.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Shelfmark information. (ff. SL1r–SL1v) On recto an owner’s signature; on verso a note on the production of the MS.

(ff. SR1r–SR1v, RCI–RCI) Blank endleaves.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Written in brown ink; no further decoration.

Binding

Description:

Contemporary laced-case halfbinding with parchment and marbled paper. Sewn on three supports. Endband slips laced through; endband sewing in green and white. Earlier shelfmarks on inside of left cover: XVII, B 15. Handwritten spine title at head. Brown leather title label with gilt lettering. Small paper label at tail with present shelfmark.

Binding dimensions: 205 × 165 × 17 mm

Condition: Good.

History

Origin

Prepared by Sveno Laurelius in Uppsala around 1690. Sveno Laurelius was a student there from 1686; in 1700 he became Magister primus in mathematics, defending the thesis ‘De telluris axe’. He later served as vicar and dean of Risinge (Diocese of Linköping). The lexicon was composed by request of Professor Laurentius Norrmannus, who held the chair of Greek at Uppsala in the years 1685–1695 (‘Rogatu doctissimi viri Laur. Normanni, Prof. Upsaliensis, qui opera inter studiosos Upsalenses distributa, Lexica omnium verborum in Scriptoribus Atticis parabat, hunc indicem comoediae Aristophanis, quae Νεφέλαι inscribitur, confecit Sveno Laurelius O:gothus, postea Praepos. Risingensis’; f. SL1v).