Epistolae Phalaris (DS11586) (Q50123)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Ohio State University (Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.167, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.167)
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Epistolae Phalaris (DS11586)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Ohio State University (Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.167, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.167)

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    Epistolae Phalaris
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    Extent: fols. 1; membrane; 187 x 142 (127 x 84)
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    Layout: 1 column, 22 lines
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    Decoration: 4 2-line initials alternating in blue and burnished gold, with rubricated names of each epistle's addressee in red
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    Ruled lightly in red ink
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    Provenance: Donated by Lisa Kiser (Columbus, OH) in July 2014
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    Provenance: The original codex was broken by Otto Ege (Cleveland, OH), see Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, HL 84
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    Text attributed to Phalaris († ca. 554 BCE), tyrant of Acragas (Sicily). In 1699, the English scholar Richard Betley disproved this attribution and instead credit its composition to the Roman Sophist school of the second century CE, possibly by Adrianus of Tyre († ca. 193 CE)
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    Incipit: …tuerit predam enim ut censuimus partitules sperliculorum
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    Explicit: et iniuste mula ex rebus
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    End of Epistle 96, all of Epistles 97-99, and beginning of Epistle 100
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    26 August 2024
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    26 August 2024
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