Collection Level Description: Microfilms of Manuscripts of Sophocles
Reference: MSS. Film 1858-76
Title: Microfilms of Manuscripts of Sophocles
Dates of Creation: 20th cent.
Extent: 19 shelfmarks
Name of Creator: Dr Roger David Dawe
Language of Material: Ancient Greek
Administrative/Biographical History
Dr Roger David Dawe has published works relating to Greek literature.
Scope and Content
Microfilms of manuscripts of Sophocles, with a few other Greek texts: collected by Dr R.D. Dawe, for use in
the preparation of his Studies on the text of Sophocles (3 vols., Leiden, 1973-8) and of his
Teubner edition of Sophocles (2 vols., Leipzig, 1975-9, 2nd edn. 1984-5).
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The microfilms were given to the Library by Dr R.D. Dawe in 1990.
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:
- MSS. Film 1858-61 - Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
- MS. Film 1862 - Heidelberg, University Library
- MS. Film 1863 - Leiden, University Library
- MSS. Film 1864-70 - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale
- MSS. Film 1871-3 - Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
- MS. Film 1874 - Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
- MS. Film 1875 - Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
- MS. Film 1876 - Zagreb, University Library
Further Information
Finding Aids
A full description is available in the Library.
Publication Note
See Scope and Content
Access Points
Greek drama
Dawe | Roger David | fl. 1973-90
Sophocles | ? 496-? 406 BC | Greek playwright
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09 June 2011