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"value": " This fragment is a single folio of a palimpsest manuscript containing originally a copy of the Iliad<\/i> of Homer in majuscule, overwritten with a text of John Chrysostom. The lower text dates to the 5th century, and the upper text, in two columns following the lines, to the second half of 10th century.<\/p> The lower text runs in a single column in the same direction as the upper text, starting from the same limit line. The extension of the Homeric lines, being cut off, suggests that the width of the original codex measured not less than 30 mm more. The large size of the written space may suggest that the original manuscript was a large, splendid book, although the script in this fragment looks rather careless when compared to other extant manuscripts of classical authors from the same period. This Palimpsest of Homer and John Chrysostom<\/i> might be the only one in which Homer has been replaced by the Church Father.<\/p> Dr Matteo Di Franco<\/p>"
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"value": "Matteo Di Franco"
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"value": "Parchment, of medium thickness and quality."
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"value": "Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 7872"
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"label": "Acquisition",
"value": "Purchased by the University Library on December 5th, 1969 from G. David, bookseller. Previous provenance is unknown."
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"value": "The fragment is marked with the current classmark on the recto<\/a> and in the upper margin in pencil: \"Ilias 17. 214\"."
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"value": "John Chrysostom, Saint, -407; Homer"
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"value": "Codex"
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"value": "Description (2020) draws on N. Tchernetska, A Homeric Fragment: Cambridge University Library Add. 7872<\/i>, in Hyperboreus<\/i> 7 (2001), p. 72-75."
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"value": "Greek"
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"value": " Not foliatiated<\/p>"
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"value": "The fragment is kept with two accompanying folders: the first containing the transcriptions of upper and lower texts by Richard V. Kerr (1920-1987), under-librarian 1963-1982, an exhibition label in the hand of Jill Richardson of the Library staff, and a note on the contents of the folder; the second containing two negatives and two photographs housed in melinex."
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