Isocrates Orationes

Collection Level Description: Microfilms of Greek Manuscripts containing Isocrates Orationes

Reference: MSS. Film 1961-3
Title: Microfilms of Greek Manuscripts containing Isocrates Orationes
Dates of Creation: 20th cent. (originals dated 13th and 15th cent.)
Extent: 3 shelfmarks

Language of Material: Ancient Greek

Administrative/Biographical History

Isocrates (436 BC-338 BC) was a Greek rhetorician.

Scope and Content

Microfilms of Greek manuscripts, 13th and 15th century, containing Isocrates Orationes.

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Given to the Library in 1994.

Access Conditions

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

Existence/Location of Originals

The originals are located as follows:

MS. Film 1961 - Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 12, fols. 23r-98v
MS. Film 1962 - Munich, Bayerische Staatbibliothek, Cgm 224.
MS. Film 1963 - Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Gr. 415, coll. 859.

Further Information

Finding Aids

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Access Points

Rhetoric, ancient

Isocrates | 436 BC-338 BC | Greek rhetorician

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