Microfilms of manuscripts of Aeschylus, with a few other Greek texts: collected by Professor M.L. West, with the aid of a research grant from the British Academy, for use in the preparation of his Teubner edition of Aeschylus.
Microfilms of Manuscripts of Aeschylus
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Film 1839-57
- Dates of Creation20th century (copies of originals from 5th-6th centuries BC)
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialAncient Greek (to 1453).
- Physical Description19 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Martin Litchfield West (b 1937), classical philologist, is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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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/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
The microfilms were given to the Library by Professor M.L. West with the concurrence of the British Academy in 1990.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
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Bibliography
M.L. West, Studies in Aeschylus (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1990).
Additional Information
The originals are located as follows:
- MS. Film 1839 - Cambridge, University Library
- MSS. Film 1840-4 - Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
- MS. Film 1845 - Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
- MS. Film 1846 - Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale
- MSS. Film 1847-9 - Paris, Bibliothque Nationale
- MS. Film 1850 - Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana
- MS. Film 1851 - Salamanca, University Library
- MSS. Film 1852-6 - Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
- MS. Film 1857 - Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana