A correspondent, Surburbanbanshee, has drawn my attention to the presence of digitised manuscripts at the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana website here. If you click on the link “manuscritos” at the foot of the BNE page, you get all their manuscripts.
Of course a lot of these are modern, and of no interest to us. Instead go to the advanced search, at the top of the all manuscripts page, select manuscritos and language as classical Greek or Latin.
I haven’t quite worked out how their viewer works yet. But it looks as if some PDF download is possible, which is good. Indeed they use Adobe to display sections of the manuscript, in 50 page chunks – an excellent idea! Why reinvent the wheel?
Greek mss:
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Psalter, 1000-1200 AD.
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Scholia minora in Homeri Iliadem, 9th c.
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Evangelary, 1000-1200.
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Plutarch, Parallel Lives, 1200-1400
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Medical treatises, 14th c.
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Thucydides, 1427 AD
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Treatises on astronomy, arithmetic and music, 1200-1400.
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Various – Demetrius Cydonius, Aesop, Aristophanes (Plutus and Clouds), Theocritus (Idylls), 15th c.
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Byzantine History by John Scylitza, 12-13th c.
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Various: Gorgia Leontinus, Herodotus, Xenophon, Isocrates, Aristides, 15th c.
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Grammatical works, 1463.
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Epigrams, 17th c.
Not a stellar collection, it must be said, but something.
There are rather more in Latin – some 900. Here are a few:
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Gregory, Moralia in Job, 14th c.
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Plutarch, Parallel lives, 16th c.
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Plautus, 15th c.
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Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew, 15th c.
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Ovid, 15th c.
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Caesar’s Commentaries, plus Hirtius, 15-16th c.
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Cicero, 14th c.
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Sallust, 15th c.
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Plutarch, Aristides + Cato, 1472.
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Various, including Publilius Syrus, 15th c.
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Corpus Pelagianum (!), 13th c.
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Seneca, Augustine, 15th c.
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Chrysostom, 14th c.
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Various: “Obras de San Basilio, San Gregorio Niseno, San Jerónimo, San Policarpo, San Ignacio, Eusebio Emiseno, San Ambrosio, San Agustín, Pedro Blesense y otros autores”, 14th c.
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Bede, Expositio super Lucam, 12th c.
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Aristotle, 13th c.
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Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, 15th c.
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Jerome, OT commentaries, 12th c.
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Augustine, Seneca, etc, 15th c.
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Lactantius, Institutiones, 15th c.
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Augustine, 12th c.
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Origen on Joshua, 12th c.
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Hierocles on horses, 15th c.
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Augustine, Letters, 14th c.
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Bede on Mark, 12th c.
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Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, 13th c.
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Leo I, 93 sermons, 15th c.
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Valerius Maximus, 14th c.
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Aristotle, 13-14th c.
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Aristotle, 14-15th c.
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Aristotle, 14-15th c.
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Augustine, City of God, 14th c.
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Aristotle, 14th c.
That was what I got from the first 300. I’m afraid I couldn’t be bothered to wade through the other 600-odd mss. Perhaps someone else will have more dedication than I!
UPDATE (8 July 2013): Banshee has come to our aid and looked through the next 300! Here are the proceeds:
- Corpus Pelagianum et alia scripta minora, 12th c. Bound together with a medieval medicine recipe.
- Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico, 15th c.
- Virgil, Bucolic, Georgics, Aeneid, 15th c.
- Julius Caesar, The Gallic War, The Civil War, Letter to Fabius. Also Aulus Hirtius, The Alexandrian War, The Hispanic War. 15th c.
- Julian the Apostate, Upon the Sovereign Sun, 17th c.
- Cyprian, Works, 1416.
- Opusculi of moral theology and philosophy. Includes works by Isidore of Seville, Seneca, Augustine, Bonaventure, and anonymous authors.
- Augustine, 12th c.
- Collection of chronicles, mostly more Corpus Pelagianum, 16th-17th c.
- Aristotle, Ethica, Politica, Oeconomica, 15th c.
- Seneca, 15th-17th c.
- Latin works by Phaedrus, Ovid, and Cornelius Nepos, 18th c.
- Various treatises, Horace and Cicero, 17th-18th c.
- Aristotle, Ethics, 15th c.
There are a few useful items in there, once more. Thank you!