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following is the result of my rather hurried inspection. The Roman numerals provide the (estimated) century in which each manuscript was written, unless it is actually dated.
1. Vellum. 12th century. Euclid. Heron of Alexandria on measures.
2. Paper. 13th century. Iliad, with scholia Marginal or interlinear notes..
3. Paper. 15th century. Critobulus. History of the first seventeen years of Mahomet II The most well-known of the collection; it is the only manuscript of the Greek authority for the fall of Constantinople..
4. Paper. 1465. Synagoge lexeon (Collection of Words) by Antonius the Monk.
5. Paper. 14th century. Eight astronomical treatises: by Maximus, Nicomachus Gerasenus, John Philoponus, Isaac Monachus, etc.
6. Paper. 1474. Michael the Captive on the antiquities of Constantinople.
7. Paper. 14th century. Lexicon of Eudemus: John Patricius on verbs: an anonymous lexicon and grammar.
8. Vellum. 13th century. Catena patrum de veteri testamento (Chain of the Church Fathers on the Old Testament), with rather fine Byzantine miniatures, the warriors in conventional Roman armor. The illuminations do not run through the entire volume, but in the latter part of the book, there are blanks left for the miniatures.
9. Paper. 15th century. Fourteen agricultural selections by different authors.
10. Paper. 16th century. Aesop's fables, with a biography of him by Planudes.
11. Paper. 15th century. Medical works: Galen, Hippocrates, Michael Psellus.
12. Paper. 15th century. On the properties of stones, and another treatise of the same kind about plants.
13. Vellum. 14th century. Explanation of the Book of the Psalms of David. A Byzantine miniature at the beginning, and a few more.
14. Paper. 15th century. Lexicon of St. Cyril.
15. Paper. 1463. Michael Moschopoulos, Grammar.
16. Paper. 16th century. Arrian, On the Ascent of Alexander, and a description of India.
17. Paper. 15th century. A miscellaneous collection, on magic.
18. Paper. 15th century. Anonymous, on grammar.
19. Paper. 14th century. (a) Aristotle, On Generation.
(b) Proclus, Physics.
(c) Heron, Geometry.
(d, e) Prognostics of weather.
(f) Palmistry.
(g) (Arrian?) Tactic for Trajan.
(h) Leon, Tactics.