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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Hardcover, New)
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Hardcover, New)
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Corpus Christi College was founded at a time when universities were
putting considerable effort into providing better facilities for
the study of Greek and Hebrew. Bishop Richard Fox, the founder of
Corpus Christi, and John Claymond, the college's first President,
therefore ensured that the library should be adequately stocked
with Greek printed books and manuscripts. In a famous letter to
Claimond in June 1519, Erasmus predicted a great future for the
College and alluded to its well-stocked library. Claymond gave the
library more than half the present collection of Greek manuscripts,
besides seven in Hebrew. His Greek books came largely from the
collection of William Grocyn, who had gone to Florence in 1488 to
study with Angelo Poliziano and Demetrius Chalcondyles, and
doubtless acquired some of his manuscripts there. Remarkably, at
the end of the fifteenth century there was a local source of supply
for some Greek texts, in the person of Ioannes Serbopoulos, a
refugee from Constantinople who had taken up residence near
Reading, who supplied Grocyn with MSS 23 and 106 in 1499 and 1495
respectively. It is worth noting in passing that when Grocyn
arrived in Florence the printing of Greek texts had barely begun,
but by the time the College was founded the demand for manuscript
copies of the principal texts used by students and scholars was
much reduced, thanks largely to the editions issued by Aldus
Manutius After the substantial initial acquisitions of manuscripts
the College was not fortunate enough to attract significant
additions to its collection, and there is no sign that it
contemplated an active policy of enlarging this element of the
library's holdings. But it is worth noting that the one manuscript
in the collection which is of truly outstanding importance, the
ninth-century copy of Aristotle's zoological works (MS 108), was
given by one of the Fellows in 1623.
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