Greek manuscripts collected by Saibante, including manuscripts relating to Saint John Chrysostom and Greek literature.
Saibante Manuscripts
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Auct. T. 3. 1-21, T. 4.1-24, T. 5.1-6
- Dates of Creation
- 10th-17th century
- Language of Material
- Ancient Greek (to 1453).
- Physical Description
- 51 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Giovanni Saibante of Verona.
Access Information
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 manuscripts were purchased in 1820 for 500.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Full descriptions, in Latin, are in Henry O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars prima recensionem codicum Graecorum continens (Oxford, 1853; reprinted with corrections, 1969).
Brief one-line descriptions, with shelfmarks and short titles, are in Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, nos. 20497-20548.