Mediaeval Greek bookhands: examples selected from Greek manuscripts in Oxford libraries 9780910956550

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MEDIEVAL ACADEMY BOOKS

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MEDIAEVAL GREEK BOOKHANDS

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Mediaeval Greek Bookhands EXAMPLES SELECTED FROM GREEK MANUSCRIPTS IN OXFORD LIBRARIES

BY

NIGEL WILSON

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id SY Req,

THE MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA CAMBRIDGE -.- MASSACHUSETTS

The original publication of this book was made possible by grants of funds to the Medieval Academy from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and from an anonymous donor.

First edition 1973 (text); 1972 (plates) Reprinted edition 1995 COPYRIGHT © 1973 BY THE MEDIAEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 95—-77237 ISBN O-9Q10956—-5 5-3

PREFACE

THIS BOOK was designed as an introduction to important manuscripts in the Oxford collections. Greek palaeography, to be used in a seminar held at Despite the large number of illustrations there are a Harvard in the summer of 1972 under the auspices of few omissions of which the reader ought to be made the Mediaeval Academy of America. It owes its ex- aware. Though the collections in Oxford are rich it istence to the initiative of Mr. Walter Whitehill, has not been possible to show examples of documents Director of the Boston Athenzum, and the generos- from the imperial chancery or other types of legal ity of an anonymous benefactor. When I explained agreement, some of which throw light on the develthat I should prefer if possible to base my course on a opment of the script; references are given, however, selection of photographs rather different from those to a few of the more accessible published facsimiles given in the existing handbooks, they offered me the of this kind of material. Iam also conscious that the chance of having the present book printed in time for range of scripts associated with southern Italy and the seminar and in a form suitable for publication Sicily is not completely represented; more illustra-

afterwards. am most grateful for this unique oppor- tions of these can be found in the monograph by tunity and, immodest though it may seem, I feel sure Mer. R. Devreesse mentioned in the notes to plates that users of the book will echo my gratitude. 25 and 26. Greek written in other parts of western My reason for wishing to assembleanewalbumof Europe during the Middle Ages has been left out of Greek hands can be explained quite simply. For some account; the interested reader may consult the pubtime it has seemed to me that the existing handbooks lished catalogue of the exhibition of Greek manuconcentrate too exclusively on the types of Byzantine scripts held in Oxford in 1966, to which frequent script that are usually found in copies of biblical and reference is made below. The omission of shorthand theological texts. Asa result the development of what in a book for beginners is less likely to arouse critione may call the cursive or scholarly hands is ne- cism; the reader who feels ready to graduate to this glected. Since anumber ofimportant manuscriptsof difficult subject may approach it by means of Salvaclassical and Byzantine authors are written in these tore Lilla’s monograph II testo tachigrafico del ‘De hands, and the dates assigned to them by editors are divinis nominibus’’ (Vat.gr.1809), Rome 1970 (Studi e frequently in error by as much as a whole century, a Testi 263), in conjunction with the useful review by new collection of plates which gives due weight to G. Cavallo in Studi medievali 12.1971.552-4.

these hands should perform a useful service. A few other features of the selection call for brief The book is intended to give the beginner a repre- comment. In view of the paucity of uncial manusentative selection of Greek hands from the middle scripts and the difficulty of dating them it was perof the fourth century to the end of the sixteenth, and haps unduly generous to devote eight plates to them. incidentally to show some of the most interesting and For the transition to minuscule I should have pre5

ferred to show an even later cursive papyrus, but kept in the Bodleian Library and scholars are welplate 9 is good enough to demonstrate the affinity of come to consult it.)

cursive and minuscule. The cursive entries on plate The arrangement of the notes should be self10, if they really belong to the seventh century, may explanatory. The present shelf-mark is followed in provoke some thought about the date of the intro- brackets by the older ones that are found in some duction of the minuscule hand, and to the best of my publications. A bare minimum of transcription is knowledge they have not been shown before in con- given, with occasional comments on other passages junction with the early minuscule of the type seen in where the reader is likely to find himself in difhplate 11. The selection of ninth-century hands errs on culties. In principle full transcriptions may be thought

the generous side, but it seemed desirable to give desirable, but they have the drawback of tempting plates of some interesting books that have been the student to look up the answer to a problem at wrongly dated hitherto. The specimens from the once instead of persevering. A full description of each tenth century and the first half of the eleventh are manuscript, of the kind which it has become the chosen partly in order to show the difficulty of estab- fashion to call codicological, has not been attempted. lishing where a manuscript was written. From the From time to time attention is drawn to details of middle of the eleventh century up to the end of the book production which have been thought by some thirteenth the emphasis is on scholarly hands, for authorities to givea clue to the origin of a manuscript. reasons already explained. Some of the datings pro- The reader will soon see that I am mildly sceptical posed here may be controversial, and I have tried to about the value of this kind of inquiry in general and give a fair indication of the diversity of opinion that share the opinion of Mgr. P. Canart, Atti del quarto still seems permissible. Some of the evidence for my congresso calabrese, Naples 1969, p. 57. Since scribes view of the development of the script is published were human beings and not automata one should not here for the first time; I hope to present more evi- assume as a matter of course that their practices in dence in the future when the necessary photographs small matters of book production were invariable. become available. At the risk of giving too much This objection of principle was urged very forcefully coverage to the thirteenth century I have shown each by B. Hemmerdinger, BZ 56.1963.24. Yet I do not of the five main hands in Barocci 131 because of its think that one should give up all hope of exploiting very great importance as a collection of uncommon evidence of this class. Professor Irigoin has recently Byzantine texts. Since these hands can be identified given an excellent example of the way that observaelsewhere the plates serve to show how the history of tion of small details can lead to valuable conclusions scriptoria and scholarship can be gradually pieced about the production of scriptorium; he pointed to together, and in my opinion progress in Greek pa- the existence ofa group of manuscripts all containing lacography and related subjects will come chiefly Greek historical texts and all written with thirty-two from such identifications. The examples of four- lines to the page, Annuaire de l’école pratique des hautes teenth-century script are again mainly of the schol- études (section IV), 1968-9, pp. 137ff. arly category, but one important scriptorium where The bibliography offered in each description will an archaising style was practiced is represented by probably be thought rather scanty. I decided, not plate 71. The hands of Renaissance date nearly all without hesitation, that it would be better for a beshow famous scribes or men of letters. In some cases ginner in the subject to be given only a limited biblithe identifications have not been published before, ography, confined asa rule to those items which give and it should be made clear that the credit for them some comment of palaeographical value or sumbelongs to Mr. E. Lobel and Miss R. Barbour, who marise conveniently the previous studies of a given built up a collection of photostats of Greek hands of manuscript. Complete bibliographies are often the Renaissance and identified the scribes of hun- daunting, and nearly always consist mainly of brief dreds of unsigned manuscripts. (The collection is passing references made by scholars who were not 6

themselves palacographical experts and did no more Mediaeval Academy. The Board of the Faculty of than repeat existing knowledge or error. The reader Literae Humaniores at Oxford made a grant to cover who takes the trouble to follow up the references the cost of the photographs to be submitted to the given in the present book will in fact become ac- printer. I trust that readers will also recognise the quainted with many of the important books and skill of the Bodleian photographic service, the craftsarticles on the subject and will easily be able to find men of The Meriden Gravure Company and the his way to the others. And a systematic bibliography printers of The Stinehour Press. Finally, and most of the subject up to 1967 is available in M. Wittek, important, four Oxford institutions must be thanked Album de paléographie grecque, Gand 1967, pp. 11-15. for granting me so readily permission to reproduce In conclusion I should like to acknowledge the manuscripts in their possession; they are the Bodleian help and kindness of those who have made it possible Library, where I have a special debt to Dr. R. W. to produce this book. One of my chief obligations Hunt, and the governing bodies of Christ Church, has been recorded already in the first paragraph Corpus Christi College and Lincoln College.

above. But I must not leave unmentioned the friendly Harvard University, August 1972 N.C.W help of Paul Meyvaert, Executive Secretary of the oS

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ABBREVIATIONS BHG _ F. Halkin, Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca

BZ Byzantinische Zeitschrift CP Classical Philology CQ Classical Quarterly CR Classical Review GRBS_ Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies JOBG Jahrbuch der Oesterreichischen byzantinischen Gesellschaft

Mus.Helv. Museum Helveticum PBA __ Proceedings of the British Academy

PG J. P. Migne, Patrologia graeca SIFC — Studi italiani di filologia classica

In the headings S.C. refers to F. Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Oxford 1895-1963.

The 1966 exhibition catalogue frequently referred to was issued by the Bodleian Library under the title Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: An exhibition held in connection with the XIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies.

,,

-1- Given to the library by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie in 1908.

Gr. theol. e.8 (P) (P. Oxy. 1224), verso of Transcription of lines 7-12: fragment 2 (with a small recto scrap on the left of the plate.) Gov Kal nonvey

Late 3rd or 4th c., papyrus, 63 X131 mm. Kev tnv yelpa

Uncanonical Gospel. avon gig tov KoA TOV QUTOD Kal

Reproduced by H. Gerstinger, Die Wiener Genesis, Vien- eénveyKev na 1931, plate 4, illustration 18, to show the development THY YELPA avtov of script in biblical codices. But G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla

maiuscola biblica, Florence 1967, p. 66 n. 1, argues that

the hand does not belong to the category of biblical

uncial and points to the forms of epsilon, sigma, mu, 3. omicron and omega. Strictly speaking he is right, but the

affinity with biblical uncial is close. Gr. bibl. g. 3 (P) (P. Oxy. 1010) (S.C. 36906), Occasionally the scribe joins two letters, e.g., in column recto.

3, line 2, epsilon and iota, line 4, tau and omega. In line 5 h h

the name Jesus is abbreviated in the form IH, on which 4th c., parchment, 84 x56 (55 x30) mm. see L. Traube, Nomina sacra, Munich 1907, p. 115. Note 4 Esdras 15:57-9. the column numbers (139 and 174); numbering of col- The forms of epsilon, omicron and sigma are much the

—_ , , same as in plate 1. . The number in the margin (40) Transcription oftopcolumn 3:may ; indicate the

umns, pages or folios is occasionally found in late antiquity, but seems to be unknown in the Middle Ages.

ol 0€ ypappaters Kal

page or the leaf; the verso is too badly damaged to show whether it was numbered as well.

ol Kal iepeic Oeacay|. Transcription: TOV nyavaKtouy|

avapelpyoetai uc 610.900 ..twdhoig 14 akovoa.[ Kal ].vatvoii[ gv ev pougal Aa NEONH Kal al

MOAEIS GOV Ov (v)

* 2° KG MAVTEC GOV tpiBnoovtal

Ol EV TOIS NEO!

Gr. bibl. g. 2 (P) (S.C. 35214), recto. O1¢ METOvV 4th or sth c., parchment, 88 x68 (60 x44) mm. oa sox

Exodus 4:5-6. OpPEG! KGl [ETE

Wpoic

The script shows the same somewhat angular forms of epsilon and sigma as are seen in plate 1, and an even smaller omicron. Serifs are noticeable on gamma, kappa, tau and xi. Line 3 shows the nomen sacrum KC for xvpioc. 9

-4- -5-

Laud gr. 35 (S.C. 1119), fol. 219°. Gr. liturg. c.3 (P) (S.C. 34149-50). 6th c., parchment, 272 x218 (200 x160) mm. 6th or 7th c., papyrus, original size not less than 265 x

Acts of the Apostles 26:3-5. 175 (c. 190X120) mm. Probably written in Sardinia by a Greek scribe, according Euchologion. to E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini antiquiores 2.251, Oxford A specimen of what is usually termed ‘Coptic’ uncial. 1935. For a brief discussion see G. Cavallo, op. cit., pp. The text was edited by C. H. Roberts—B. Capelle, An

100, 105-6. early euchologion: the Dér-Balizeh papyrus enlarged and re-

In column 2 the formation of some of the letters is rather edited, Louvain 1949 (Bibliotheque du Muséon 23). See

hesitant; this may indicate either a shaky hand or un- also J. Irigoin, JOBG 8.1959.37-8. familiarity with Greek. Line 9 shows a relatively uncom- G. Cavallo kindly informs me (by letter of 11 June 1972) mon way of writing wou. G. F. Cereteli, Sokrastenija v that after a full study of Coptic uncial he is inclined to date greceskich rukopisjach, St. Petersburg 1904, ed. 2, reprinted this specimen to the seventh century, and perhaps more 1969, p. 99 n. 2, noted the same feature in the Codex specifically to the middle of the century.

Sinaiticus of the Bible and the Uspensky Psalter of a.p. Transcription of lines 18-22 of the left-hand page (cf. p. 862 (Leningrad Public Library, MS. gr. 216). . 28 in Roberts-Capelle): The ruling is on the flesh side, four bifolia at a time.

é avtov tovto uLov eativ] to cwpa to

The book may have belonged to the Venerable Bede; but vmep vuov d16[opevo lv ec ageai(v) though his text of the Acts was remarkably in agreement apaptiov ouo[ims¢ pe|ta to dinvy

with this unique MS., no marginalia in Anglo-Saxon cai AaBwv notnpioy K[ai €|vAoynoas script occur. On the history of the book see E. A. Lowe, Kl TCV EOWKEV ADTOIG ENV Speculum 3.1928.315 (Palaeographical Papers 1907-1965,

Oxford 1972, pp. 239-50); B. Bischoff - J. Hofmann, Libri Sancti Kyliani, Wirzburg 1952, pp. 90-1.

Item 34 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. ° 6° See also plate 10. Gr. liturg. c. 1 (S.C. 30051), recto. Transcription of lines 1-9: oth c. (?), parchment, 300 x275 (245 X210) mm., 2 columns of 25 lines.

Kal Cytnpatov TAVTOV

tov Kata iovdaicnv) Lectionary in Greek and Coptic (the Greek text on this

eOov TE leaf is Matthew 4:2-11).

Bio A late specimen of Coptic uncial. The leaf is not well deomat preserved, and only the lower half of the left-hand col-

aK poOvpac umn is shown. The ductus and extremely poor orthogAKOLGG! LOD raphy suggest a scribe more at home with Coptic than

THY Lev ovv Biwaly Lov Greek.

The alpha at the beginning of line 6 is set in the margin to indicate that a new paragraph has begun (with 6 dé in the previous line); this is the normal practice in Greek manu10

scripts. At the end of line 9 there seems to be a clumsily W. H. P. Hatch, The principal uncial manuscripts of the written apostrophe. In lines 11 and 17 there is a puzzling New Testament, Chicago 1939, plate t1v; K. Aland, op.

sign which looks like a misplaced circumflex accent. cit., p. 40, symbol 039.

Bought in Egypt in 1873. Transcription of column 2, lines 1-7:

as 11355. , 9

,; , ; abté& iwdvvnc:

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften ae

des Neuen Testaments, vol. 1, Berlin 1963, lists thisovtos MS. -; nAev Eis paptoupiay. iva

Transcription of lines 1-5: Haptopron née pi TOO Ywtos iva

.. dav o nipala@yv MAVTES TATED

ere’ avtéd et OF awolv ov abtoo: i tov Ov ein iva 10 A10n ovty apti VEVOOVTE O OF

:8. Gr. bibl. e. 1 (S.C. 30539), fol. 6".

fol. 4°. 4.

- 7: Date uncertain, perhaps even as late as the 12th or 13thc., Oriental paper, 145 x60 mm. (original size uncertain, but

Auct. T. infra 1.1 (S.C. 28643) (Misc. 310), not much larger, since the lines of script are complete). 1 Corinthians 11:3.

Probably 10th c., parchment, 203 x157 (140 x95) mm.

y P ( ) Probably written in Egypt in a centre where Greek was

St. John 1:1-11. not the first language (cf. plate 6). A somewhat similar

An ordinary late uncial hand. The script slopes to the hand is found ona single leaf of Oriental paper preserved right, which is a common but not universal feature of this in MS. Gr. class. c. 71 (fol. 26). style of uncial. The only feature of this plate which de- The present MS. has Arabic script on some pages, and serves special mention is that the scribe sometimes writes Professor A. F. L. Beeston kindly informs me, by letter of accents on the nomina sacra, a practice rare at this date but 19 May 1972, that it cannot be earlier than A.D. 1000 and

normal from the eleventh century onwards. Accents and may be substantially later; the book is too small and breathings tend to be placed over the first, not the second, fragmentary to permit a firm conclusion.

element of a diphthong.

K. Aland, op. cit., no. 11746.

This book, otherwise known as Codex A or Tischendor- r a -ttine the last I;

fianus 11 of the Gospels, is the second half of Leningrad ranscription (omitting the last line):

Public Library MS. gr. 54-182 (Gregory 566+2149); 5

. . . . . AN O XS EOTIV

see the short description by E. E. Granstrem, Vizantiskij BOS REGE Vremennik 18.1961.266. The Leningrad section is written Ke gad de in minuscule, and is illustrated as plate 14 in H. J. Vogels, ypvalkoc:

Codicum novi Testamenti specimina, Bonn 1929. The script 6 dvnp.Keoa is a competent but undistinguished minuscule of a fairly An d¢ Zo 0 Oc early type; it may be as early as the end of the ninth century, but a date in the tenth century is rather more likely. 11

Gr. class. a. 6 (P) (P. Grenfell 1.62) Barocci 26 (S.C. 26), fol. 252°.

(S.C. 31903), recto. oth c., parchment, 160 x 110 (12070) mm.

, rmopolis.

6th or 7th c., papyrus, found at Hermop Nomocanon. The plate shows part of the canons of the

Will. Council of Carthage; text in G. A. Rhallis-M. Potlis,

, . , . 1853, p. 616.

Lovrayua tov Oeiwv Kai iepHv Kavovwv, vol. iti, Athens

1 71.

An example of late cursive script used for documents of the early Byzantine period. A modified form of cursive

was eventually adopted for use in books, probably at the A very early pure minuscule with tendencies to cursive;

end of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century. compare the theta in line 9 with the form seen in the

Note that this plate is reduced in scale. first cursive note on plate 10. Script unaccented in most

; . . Lo,of ofthe theoriginal book. Some scholiaareingiven minuscule and half-uncial. Corrections publication in Be. « ; —_ J . Epsilon-rho ligature in ‘ace-of-spades’ form; for an ear-

richtigungsliste der: oe griechischen Papyrusurkunden ausandAgyplier example see the last line on plate 10, on this . ten, vol. i, Berlin 1913, p. 184, vol. ii, part ii, Heidelberg , — i, ligature in general see J. Irigoin, Scriptorium 12.1958.224

933) P-7 n.4 and P. Canart in Atti del quarto congresso calabrese,

Transcription of lines 3-8: Naples 1969, pp. 62, 67. A few standard abbreviations are seen on this page, but G. F. Cereteli, op. cit., p. 183 vogoxopion Boviopar avtny anoatepeiabar tov a peopla notes the use of three very rare compendia elsewhere in MEVOOV ALTH Tap Euov ev Tavty TH O1aOnKN Tpaypatoy the book

tno elas Kal veapas dlatazews TOVTO avTO GvyYwWpovens " yeveoOal dia to thy avtyy Oelav Kat veapay d1ataciy Bifolia ruled four sheets at a time. Quires numbered on adElaV OEOMKEVAL TOIG OlaBEpEVOIS ENTE TA EK TOV the first recto, on the lower right-hand corner in minusANVATOL voHOD puAacal TOG EvavTIODPEVOIS THS AVTCV cule, on the upper right-hand corner in uncial (original

10 series), and in addition marked with two or three crosses, which are sometimes but not always a sign of origin in the Stoudios monastery.

Laud gr. 35, fol. 227°.

. . . Item 3 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. fessional scribes. Transcription of lines 1-6: Examples of uncial and late cursive, not written by pro-

For the MS. in general see above on plate 4. If the book ora FOO TERVOD THON HapKeddov. £00

. ETEPAS GAVYATIHS, META EDYA PlOTEN this page must belong to the seventh century or theTAG early BEPE DONS E Ts OLOPAS s)

did become the property of Bede all the Greek notes on bmodiaKovon Huarv. ypappata tHe D ,

EOECALLNV, THcase K@they EDYAPIOTHV OT years of ;the cighth, and in any cannot be much ; , NEW

lei Onv todovta@y adeA gv EvdAoylac amoAav

more recent. H. H. E. Craster, Bodleian Quarterly Record car’ Kplot waka pwotatot aded gor

2.1917-9.288-90, wondered if the Theodore mentioned in a similar cursive note on fol. 227% could be identified In line 11 «vyvor perhaps xovyv has been written for xor-

with Theodore of Tarsus. vgv ;in 17 the scribe should have written osoxdnpas wc .

a In 15 ixo above the line is a correction by the scribe

Transcription of the last note: himself. t6eotoKke BonOel tov dovAOv Gov IMAVVOU

TO ENIKAIV Kapapiadocs peta tov Oia) QEPOVTOV GUTOV GLpivt

12

- 412. Leipzig 1886, pp. 402 and 408; the marginalia are sections 25 and 26, ibidem pp. 404 and 406.

Corpus Christi College, MS. 108, fol. 178¥. Pure minuscule. Accentuation incomplete. Iota adscript oth c., parchment, 247175 (178X114) mm. written (a feature that will not be noted in comments on

- subsequent plates). Half-uncial marginalia by Arethas.

Aristotle, de spiritu (481 a 1-30 Bekker). The note inserted above the diagram in the text is of the

A fine example of early pure minuscule with very few eleventh or twelfth century. Some of the compendia accents and breathings written. The script rests on the seen in the marginalia are not normally used except in ruled lines, whereas from the middle of the tenth century mathematical texts; G. F. Cereteli, op. cit., p. 152, refers it usually hangs from them, as in plates 22 and 28. Iota to the great range of compendia in this book.

adscript is written. The numbering of the quires is on the Item 4 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue; P. Lemerle, Le

lower left-hand corner of the first page.premier In the twelfth or hParis . 1971, pp. 170-1. humanisme byzantin, century copious marginal scholia were added on many

pages. Transcription of lines 1-7 of section 26: In lines 8 and 19 double tau is written in a way found . 4 1f fer: th n THI U(ETA) PNTOD LEGOV TO OAOV TOIOb

quite frequently at this date and for some time after; the ami abppetploc) A pera) pytiov) pécov t0 6 second tau looks superficially like a gamma and is pre- jov nowobea (éotiv). (fot) # Weta) pyt(ov) uéaov 16 sumably a survival of the ‘split’ tau found in ancient éhov nowica f & obppetploc) de av

papyri. thin B A€y@ Ot1n B wETta pynt(ov) Léa(ov)

TO OAOV Tolobea (EaTiv). exkeiaAw py H. J. Drossart Lulofs, 13.1947.290-301; R. —on —~ . , , ™ n yo K(al)Mnemosyne tH1 U(ev) aro) t(Hc) a (igov) n(apa) t(HV) yd

W. Hunt in D. A. Callus (editor), Robert Grosseteste the Tn? ror " Pare? scholar and bishop, Oxford 1955, p. 135; item 37 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue, and see plate xv ibidem for a

Latin note probably in the hand of Grosseteste. - 14 Transcription of lines 1-5 (the last few letters of the sec-

ond line are illegible owing to damage from moisture): E. D. Clarke 39 (S.C. 18400), fol. 368”. Ig Tov EmpLTOD Mvevpatog Siapovy. Kai) TIC H avenats. A.D. 895, parchment, written by John the calligrapher for opwpev yap ot mAEov K(al) icyupmteEpov yivetal. k(al) Ka Arethas, who bought it for 21 gold nomismata. 325 225

NAIKIAC (200 X135) mm. Any. o1ad 7 "AAAG

PE

uerapoayy. Kai) xara diabeoty acDparos. 1} OX % me Plato, the last lines of the Protagoras and opening of the I POOYIVOMEVOD TLVOC. TMPOGyIVETAl O& TPOGN TOIS EUYD , ‘th scholia. & hich wc YOIC. WOTE TAVTNV OKENTEOV OIA TE K(al) TOOEV" SvO ON Gorgias, with scholia, for which see W. ©. Greene,

Scholia Platonica, Haverford 1938, pp. 128-30 and 459.

The minuscule script is no longer quite pure; the letter

- 13- lambda appears quite often in uncial form. The scholia, with one exception of much later date, are in half-uncial,

D’Orville 301 (S.C. 17179), fol. 268°. which was much used for marginalia, especially in the eriod c. 875-c. 975. The scholia are not all by Arethas;

A.D. 888, parchment, written by Stephanos klerikos and a ; ; ‘ous hands bv G y” «and bought by Arethas for 14 gold nomismata. 220x180 EE assignations FO various Hands DY MECEHE, OP. Cr ° “an

OuBm ey 48 " by T. W. Allen in his preface to the complete facsimile, (150X108) mm. two volumes, Leiden 1898-9, are not beyond question,

Euclid, Elements 10, appendix; the text shows sections Greene notes, p. xxi, n. 5, that Allen later abandoned 24 and 27, as in Heiberg’s Teubner edition, vol. iii, some of his views. 13

The script of the text is sometimes resting on, sometimes aev 6 ev avth o D116 hanging from, the ruled lines. L. Traube, op. cit., p. 124, atpatos o Tupio¢g notes that in this manuscript the system of nomina sacra is onoiv yap 7 Movyyadr fully developed and applied to non-Christian subject covog 0 ehaia asia

, , davualelv Kai tob matter. In fact the same development is seen already in K(ai) eee . , Oaddov © Elkactal.

plate 11, lines 9, 12, and 16; see also plate 20, lines 20, 22 .

d hich j lv a little lat aMGALV VEOTNC EYEVETO and 25, which is only little later. Bavpacar deta tot Item 5 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue; P. Lemerle, tAnGous. Kal NAAUV)

op. cit., pp. 213-4 EV ODOELLIA THY NOAEMV GNONS OOKAY. GAAG Kal noOnaai Gélog. Kal pv pia GAAa.

Transcription of the two scholia in the right-hand margin:

4 OVOXEPES - 16: ovo(Ev) &pywo(és)

ma poyuia) (ai) todto

ano Tyrépov Barocci 235 (S.C. 235), fol. 20”.

(kal) t(od) tp(@)alav)toc h h335 X240 (250 X150) mm. A yiAdéene) (Kai) 105 goth c., parchment, xpnotnptov Catena on Psalms 1-50 (the plate shows 1:6 with com-

GVEAOVTOC mentary) (6t1) 6 Tpwaac (Kal)

idoetat Pure minuscule. Accentuation nearly complete. Script resting on the ruled lines. Bifolia ruled two at a time. Lines 7-9 of column 1 consist of Psalms 1:6, the citation

being marked by signs in the margin, in this case the

-15- diple and a dot. Below the signs is a monogram intended

to indicate Origen’s authorship of the note that follows.

Barocci 217 (S.C. 217), fol. 47’.

7 ( 7)» 47 A note on fol. 478%, probably of the twelfth century,

gth c., parchment, 260 x180 (180 x105) mm. records the donation of the book by Constantine Com-

, . nenos Lascaris to the104—7, monastery Kw god Photius, Letter 8, sections PG 105 101.869. y ?.

Item 6 in the 1966minuscule; exhibition catalogue; G. 3 Mercati, Another example of, , rather archaic uncial — 8 Osservazioni a proemi del Salterio, Vatican City 1948,

4. . (Studi e Testi 142), passim.

lambda is found. Script resting on the ruled lines. Mar- ,

ginalia variously in minuscule and half-uncial. At two points in the left-hand margin we see the common ab- Transcription of column 1, lines 10-17:

. a. onpeiwaoal KAGOAIKaC.

breviation on(pEiwaai) .

Item 7 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue, where plate m NOOO < a ; Ot KaAOV LOvoV yIVO)

shows some half-uncial marginalia, B. Laourdas, ’A@yva axetai tno K(vpiow. aiiov

§5.1951.125-54, edited the marginalia. 58 obdev ObbENOTE:

Transcription of the marginal note in minuscule: addy rap 000¢ ducal’ KQ@l OUK GV éimév. ylv@

. ; oKEel Tho K(Upio)c Gd0V aaEBav H 4-, XpPHOIc avvtacews yom mapa Movkvdidy (Kai) Anuoadévet éniedva

14

TL TOV ANOAODMEVOV.

-17- first with a note that Leo’s reign lasted 26 years and 9 months, then with the entries for Alexander, Constantine

Christ Church, MS. Wake 5, fol. 1 or Porphyrogenitus, Romanos (Lecapenus) and Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the last without any indication of

oth c., parchment, 305 x220 (230x145) mm. the length of the reign. That suggests a date in the years George Syncellus, Chronicle, pp. 566.11-567.14 of the 944-959, if the continuation of the list is in the hand of the

Bonn Corpus edition by W. Dindorf, Bonn 1829. main scribe; but this is rather doubtful. A date in the middle of the tenth century may at first sight seem more

Pure minuscule. A very stiff hand of a type recognisable plausible, but the absence of some of the accents and elsewhere. Note how gamma slopes to the right, in con- breathings may point to the earlier date; and for another

trast to the other letters. rather ‘advanced’ hand, which seems to belong to the For a detailed description of the MS., which contains years c. 900, see MS. Jerusalem, Patriarchate 24 (MS. 1, Theophanes’ chronicle also, see N. G. Wilson, Dum- plates 1 and 2, in K. and S. Lake, Dated Greek minuscule

barton Oaks Papers 26.1972.357-60. manuscripts to the year 1200, Boston 1934-45).

Transcription of lines 1-5: Marginalia in half-uncial and minuscule. Yellow colour Hounyioc nodto pria Jaa tit ‘lepooddvpa. *Apiato Bovdov wash used a good deal for titles and headings, as on plate

av 18; this may be why the Summary Catalogue says that the sic a wash is found in manuscripts from other centres (e.g.,

déoplov ovv toicg naiciv Adeéavd pw Kai °Avttyov@ Kateixev book was probably written in South Italy, but yellow ‘Pauny aniwv. Opiaupevomy Kai dAda@v &bvdv Baatheic British Museum, Add. 28816, A.D. 1111, from Myoupolis

K(ai) NyEuo in the Morea; Venice, Marc. gr. 101(428), A.D. 1065,

vag “Ypkavd) dé TG tobtov AdEAQa@ THY apylepwMadvny EpxEIpL from Constantinople; Paris, Coislin 263, A.D. 1059, from

aac. bnogdpous étagev “Papaioic ‘lovdaiouc. k(ai) Kixépov 6 the region of Edessa). pytop

Cereteli, op. cit., pp. 183-4, notes some uncommon

In lines 6-7 the name Catiline has suffered the amusing compendia in this MS.; one which he fails to comment on

corruption xa? “Eddnva. is seen several times in the half-uncial script of plate 18, namely the abbreviation of the inflection wv by writing a sign rather like an omega above the line.

The hand shown on plate 19 wrote foll. 162v-172¥ and 258'-262'; despite its inelegant appearance there is no

- 18.19 - reason to suppose it to be later than the main hand. 9

Transcription of plate 18, lines 1-4, incorporating the

Laud gr. 39 (S.C. 715*), foll. 30", 162”. words initially omitted and then added in the top margin: 10thc. (for more details see below), parchment, 242 X180 Kega(Aalov) (mpwtov) née pl) KaBlEpwMoews vadv' (Kal) yaptop

(c. 190 X120) mm. [icov Joo(v) un exovtev An

yava ayiwv. avvod(ov) Kabapyévync Kavwv ¢ my

Canon Law: plate 18 shows PG 104.564B10-D14; 19 avvodlov). Nuxailac to devtepov Kav cov) EE shows Rhallis-Potlis, op. cit. (see plate 11), vol. ii, Athens év 10 Kepa(Aai@) tov (tpitov) t1(tAov) Tov Napdvto¢ Guvtdypatos

1852, pp. 395-6, 397-8. 71a. péy pa

On foll. 9v and 13° there are lists of patriarchs and em- wa nO yiverau eKK AMOI Hye oe (rat) O1ata(cic) K tov

perors, which end respectively with Nikolaos and Leo, (Sevtépov) 1 tAov) 200 (npedrov) in such a way as to suggest a date for the MS. of c. 907-12. The unexpanded numerals are ¢6 283 €7 1617 1614 The list of emperors is continued in a different (black) ink, K 20 15

In line 15 of the text the word abbreviated after a is On plate 21 the angle of the script changes in the lower fiBdiov. In lines 16 and 17 the scribe attempts to write the half of the page, and this kind of change is seen on a Latin terms fidei commtisso mortis causa; technical terms of number of other pages; it serves as a reminder that scribes

Roman law are normally written in this barely recog- were capable of intentional variation of their hands, at nisable fashion, Latin being generally unknown in By- least for short stretches of text.

Zanini. Item 9 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue; on plate 21 see Transcription of plate 19, first four lines of the new also C. Th. Gelzer, Mus.Helv. 24.1967.120ff.

chapter: Transcription of plate 20, lines 1-4 (note in line 1 in the ineidn 1 Oe) KoAAdaOa1 dia THC ex tev tov Biov BopbBav uncial lemma the unexpected intrusion of a minuscule avaympynaems Aiav etl a(wtn)plov’ xpy UN avEecEeTaaTs n ligatur e): Lac napa THY KAaLpoV tTobs TMV LovN pl Biov aVEpOvLLEVODG

npoacieabar adda tov mapadobEevta Huiv Mapa TOV “Axadnueia (Kai) 16 AdKélov. dupe yopvaota rv" Kai TLAatavoc pév, 4 “Axadnueia’ “A piatotédouc 68, T0

Abxelov inipye Oat pipy év tobtoig oi nepinator TOIC yovuvacioicg inf pyev"

Transcription of plate 21, lines 1-4 of the text:

- 20,21 -

elmé Sea K pv giv énipaptvpa Abyvov épatav

Barocci 50 (S.C. 50), foll. 274”, 322°. Kai vbylov nAwth pa Oalacaond pov buevaiov Kai yapov ayAvdevta. tov obK idev ApOITOS Huds

10th c., parchment, 205 x140 (135 x85) mm. Kai Lnatov Kai “ABvdov. ényi yapoc &vvvyoc A pow:

Miscellany; plate 20 shows part of a lexicon to the poems . . . of Gregory of Nazianzus printed by J. A. Cramer, Anec- In line 7 the scribe uses two hyphen signs below the line dota graeca e codd.mss. bibliothecarum Oxoniensium, vol. ii, to indicate the Occurrence of comp ound words. In the

Oxford 1835, pp. 475ff.; plate 21 shows the beginning of marginalia the long lines encircling each note on three

Musaeus, Hero and Leander. sides are most unusual, and I do not recall any other example. On the other hand the symbols by which some

The book is sometimes thought to have been written in notes are related to the appropriate point in the poetic Italy, cf. J. Irigoin, JOBG 18.1969.49 and P. Lemerle, text exemplify a procedure used by almost every scribe: Op. cit., p. 253 n. 30. One argument adduced in favour of the choice of symbols varies a good deal according to the this view is that in a collection of Byzantine poems on individual. folios 381-6, edited by R. Browning, Byzantion 33.1963. 289-316, a heading describes one poem as coming “from

a church in Italy.’ In my opinion this is not a form of words that a scribe working in Italy would be likely to use. T. W. Allen, PBA 17.1931.188 n. 1, noted on folio 7

a - 22,23 -

a small piece of syllabic tachygraphy, which is found ?

mos often in manuscripts from the monastery of Grotta- E. D. Clarke 12 (S.C. 18374), foll. 66, 210°. errata; but I doubt if we are justified in supposing that

this tachygraphy was peculiar to one scriptorium or 10th c., parchment, 150 x110 (115 X75) mm.

rephon. Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus; plate 22 shows the last Both plates show the ‘ace-of-spades’ ligature, on which four lines of the De virtute, PG 37.752, and the beginning

see Browning, op. cit., p. 290 and Canart, op. cit. (see of the poem printed in PG 37.1244-6; plate 23 shows

plate 11), pp. 56, 62, 65. epigrams 57-63, PG 38.112-5. 16

Many folios exhibit scholia with a wide range of com- The minuscule hand is very regular and calligraphic. The pendia, but since the binders have cut down the size of date is deduced from a series of Easter tables for the years the pages the scholia are usually rather difficult to read. 951-6, and at one time the book was thought to be the On the compendia see Cereteli, op. cit., pp. 166-7, and latest dated example of pure minuscule script; but see my T. W. Allen, Notes on abbreviations in Greek manuscripts, suggestion in Scriptorium 15.1961.317 that this honour Oxford 1889, p. 8, who also assigned the book to the belongs to Meteora MS. 565 of A.D. 969. first half of the tenth century. Much use of green colour wash, occasionally of yellow as In the right-hand margin of[seplate 22 there appears to be a 8 , your well. The quires, apart from being numbered, are marked short tachygraphic note after the stichometric indication, . ; —_ on the top of the first page with two crosses (11") or, but Iam not able to give a satisfactory transcription of it. . more usually, with two asterisks, and these are often

The foliation is by Richard Porson. picked out in green wash. Vermilion is used for some J. Irigoin, JOBG n. 1. ntions Plate 23 shows that even at,aheadings. relatively early date some gs. J. 18.1969.37 Irigoin, J 999-37 3, me this st . as one of the manuscripts from southern Italy which have letters, here especially beta and kappa, can be written . . ; ruling on the flesh side of the parchment, but my investi-

much4:larger than the scale ofleads the script requires; enlarge4: i. gation of the book me to think that the scribe ruled ment of thisfour kind bifolia is one ofof thea criteria foradating convena 79-86), . all quire at time (e.g., foll. and tional script of the eleventh century and later, but the — when the ruling too faint, asthat it often would be on the present plate may- suggest that it iswas a criterion needs

to be used with caution sheet at the bottom of the pile, some lines had to be ruled

afresh. I am not sure whether the book should be re-

T. Gaisford, Catalogus sive notitia manuscriptorum qui a cel. garded as a product of southern Italy, but I do not think E. D. Clarke comparati in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur, there is any better evidence for accepting the view of K. pars prior, Oxford 1812, pp. 23-56; F. Lefherz, Studien zu Weitzmann, Die byzantinische Buchmalerei des neunten und Gregor von Nazianz, Bonn 1958, pp. 72, 153, 160, 230. zehnten Jahrhunderts, Berlin 1935, p. 63, that it comes from

Transcription of the first four lines on each plate: the district of Trapezus.

Oe The scribe of the book is usually said to be Georgios zaics Adya T GAnOei Kai merely pidEl TOV NAGCUGTOV ; 4 of , the ¥ , or but the acrostic indicates the authorship

PIMOS GRGOON THY ROTO P (00 CaAny (child or slave?) on the strength of an acrostic on fol. 36”,

dive te taémi Kai yévoid pov T2Eov. ich -O —_

dic dv txo10 mierovoc nappnaiag.:— otx((01) 4 (1,000) verses in question, an G. ercati, Osservazioni a proemi

del salterio, Vatican City 1948 (Studie Testi142), pp. 97-9,

ola ndOov athAn ypdwate vex poydvoy’ was certainly right to say that the subscription of the TOIXOC evi 1 POTLOOEGGI (Kal) 0 pOios evOev &reita scribe iS on fol. 300% and reveals his name as Anthimos

bmtioc &k Aaydvey gic Ev ayEelpouevov’ (who is not recorded in M. Vogel — V. Gardthausen, Die t6uBos qv xa’ brepOe Adgou Adgoc: adda ti tadta. griechischen Schreiber des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Leipzig 1909).

Mercati, op. cit., pp. 23-8, explains the stichometric note at the end of Psalm 61 (which ends dyionodit06 Kd), and

- 24 - gives further bibliography about the MS. ibidem, pp. 97-9. Item 71 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue; K. Aland,

Auct. D.4.1 (S.C. 1982) (Misc. 5), fol. 146". op. cit., lists this MS. as / 1346. c. 950, parchment, 230 x170 (177x117) mm. Transcription of the last six lines: etepa bnoWeatc) APava(aiov). Kai tobtov adel TOV WahLov.

Psalm 61:11~13 with catena and the introduction to gedycov ano Npoownov Ladvd’. (Kai) 61d Psalm 62. Psalm text in uncial, catena in minuscule. thc Kata tov Biov apetic énikadov 17

pevoc ei PonOeiay tov Weo)v' ava pepe to assume that the indiction is more likely to be given eal dé (ral) ets THV VOxt v oH v nadal ev épy correctly; see P. Maas, Griechische Palaographie, p. 74, in

Hid yeyovvlay mavtoc dyaGob. part 9 of A. Gercke - E. Norden, Einleitung in die AlterThe second line in this transcription shows the common tumswissenschaft, Leipzig 1927.3

habit of adding an apostrophe after Semitic proper names. a

(It may also be found after yap and ody; for a fuller state- D CVECESSE, Irigoin and Leroy regard the book as an

ment, and a note of some rarer usages, sce V. Gardt- Italian product. It should be mentioned that K. Weitzhausen, Griechische Paldographie, vol. ii, Leipzig 1911,7 mann, OP. cit., p. 64, thought it came from the oriental

pp. 397-8). provinces of the empire, and so apparently did E. A. Lowe, Scriptorium 9.1955.189 n. 2 (Palaeographical Papers 1907-1965, Oxford 1972, p. 430 n. 1). MS. no. 271 in M. Aubineau, Codices Chrysostomici graeci,

* 25, 26° vol. i, Paris 1968, pp. 240-1.

Laud gr. 75 (S.C. 746), foll. 41”, 319°. Transcription of the first five lines of the new text on plate 25 and of the first column on plate 26:

A.D. 976, parchment, 340 X250 (245 X180) mm.

Chrysostom, Sermons on Genesis 9-10 and 59, PG 53. that tov Huiv 6 avAdovos TIME

81-2 and 54.514-5. pov. Kai Bpaxvd tO Beat pov TMV OVVOEO PALNKOTOV’

The first scribe (plate 25) writes a rather archaic hand, the tivo éveKev Kal Ola Ti’ TA second (plate 26) exhibits a great many uncial letters. On xa. tives EpvO piacay peta the reintroduction of uncial letters into minuscule script obaiac, eic Savtov pebiotnot’ one may consult E. Follieri, Bollettino dell’archivio paleo- Kai édv tic porto tivoc & grafico italiano, 1.1962.15—36; but note the reservations VEKEV } TOOAKTH THY YPN

expressed by J. Irigoin, Polychronion (Festschrift Délger) pdtov pavia. eb0éos tov Heidelberg 1966, p. 263, who remarks inter alia that maida mpopdAdetar (Kai) d10 manuscripts from southern Italy at this date often seem archaic by comparison with the products of the capital.

The quires are often marked with three crosses as on - 27: plate 26. This shows, as J. Leroy realised, Scriptorium

15.1961.48-9, that the crosses cannot be taken as a guaran- Auct. T. infra 1.4 (S.C. 29285) (Misc. 314), tee of Studite origin. The serial numbers of the quires, not fol. 79. shown here, ae highly decorated (see the p lates in K. and Probably from the second half of the 10th c., parchment, S. Lake, op. cit.). R. Devreesse, Les manuscrits grecs de I’ Italie meridionale, Rome 1955 (Studi e Testi 183), p. 36 196x157 (125x110) mm.

n. 2, noted that this procedure is known from Monte St. Mark 1:1-9. Cassino (see also J. Leroy, L homilétique de Proclus de A very poor piece of book production, on bad parchment Constantinople, Rome 1967 (Studi e Testi 247), p. 67). with crude ornamentation. The script is rather like that The date of this book is sometimes given as 993 (R. of some Italian manuscripts shown in K. and S. Lake, Devreesse, op. cit., p. 29; J. Irigoin, Scriptorium 12.1958. op. cit., and the book probably does come from that 218), but I see no reason why the normal calculation of region of the Byzantine world. I can see no foundation the Byzantine era should be abandoned in this case. The for the suggestion in the Summary Catalogue that the indiction and the year of the world as given in the sub- scribe was more accustomed to writing Armenian than scription do not coincide, and in such cases it is advisable Greek. Ruling on the flesh side, usually one sheet at a 18

time. At the foot of the page is the Gospel harmony. - 29 Another hand has added two liturgical indications for the

reading of the Gospel in church. Christ Church, MS. Wake 2, fol. 238°. K. Aland, op. cit., nos. 709 and 2601. 10th c., parchment, original size about 375 x260 (275 x

apxn tod ebayye a

Transcription of the first eight lines: 200) mm. One of three surviving leaves. St. John 4:10-11 with catena.

Riov *I(qao)v X(pratoyp vio) tob The character of the minuscule script is consistent with a

O(co)v" de yéypa date as late as the middle of the tenth century. In the nai év toic mpo ligature of epsilon and nu the scribe uses the form of nu gytaic. idob é with three bars, as in the last word on the page; this is y@ anoatédhw relatively rare, but essentially the same ligature is seen

TOV ayyedOv Lov twice in line 4 of plate 24. pO Tpodw@mnov Gov.

On other fragments of the same manuscript preserved elsewhere and the importance of the catena text see B.

- 28 - Ehlers, Materialien zur neutestamentlichen Handschriftenkunde (ed. K. Aland), vol. i, Berlin 1969, pp. 96-133.

Rawlinson G. 156 (S.C. 14880) (Misc. 168), K. Aland, op. cit., no. 050.

fol. 1°.

Late 10th c., parchment, 268 x210 (200 x147) mm.

Transcription of the first four lines of the catena:

Chrysostom, Comparatio regis et monachi, PG 47.387-8. NOTEpOV Osikvvaly. aéiav odaay aKobdaal Kai un napw@pOAvar Kai TOTE EGU

Written by Neilos, the founder of the monastery at tov Exkadvrtel Kai yap éueddev evGéwmc uabodaa dc éotiv

Grottaferrata, or one of his pupils; some of the hands are jnaxobecbat. Kai very alike and difficult to distinguish. For the same text of nposééelv abta énep “lovdaiwy obk &v tic einol. Kai pap

Chrysostom, written by the hand of Neilos, see K. and pabovtec Htnoay S. Lake, op. cit., plate 730, MS. 378 (MS. Grottaferrata abtov obd&év. GAAa Kai UBpicay Kai anyHAavvov:

B.a.20, dated A.D.975). Books written in this circle in the period c. 965~—c. 991 are shown by the Lakes as MSS. 66 and 378-83.

Yellow wash is used to underline the title (see also plate - 30 25). The ruling is normal, riot on the flesh side as some-

times happens in books from southern Italy; see T. W. Holkham gr. 6, fol. 71”. Allen, Miscellanea Fr. Ehrle, vol. iv, Rome 1924, p. 26.

A.D. 1050-2, parchment, 220 x160 (155 X105) mm. MS. no. 276 in M. Aubineau, op. cit., p. 243. . Synodicon, with ecphonetic musical notation. The plate

Transcription of the first six lines of the text: shows part of the époc of the sixth oecumenical council. Opv éy@ tobs moAhovc tév av Opwn)ov: Written by Theophylact, kouboukleisios of the patri-

ayam@vtas te Kai OavydCovtac. ta OoKobyta eival Kaha UaAA@Y arch’s office in Antioch.

Ta pbaoEl ypnata (Kai) Oo GANODS 4 Fine quality parchment, large and well-spaced minuscule

yada: avayKaiov eivar vopite nepi hand. But for the information to be gleaned from the text éxatépov Bpaysic noijaaabe Adyouc. and colophon one would not be able to tell that this book 19

is a product of a distant province of the Byzantine world; Item 19 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue.

there is8nothing provincialofinplate the script. , ,5-9: P P Transcription 31, lines

On the liturgical significance of the notation see E. J. . a y BaDet

Kai Onpaivey TOV Ka1poV. EX ‘ tpiv Wellesz, A history of Byzantine music Lo. andTHY hymnography, OTe FLO TEIN BPN LIS NUEpayv K(vpio)v THY LEyaAnV Kai EN1 gavy:

Oxford 1961,” 2 and 258-60. A full description or - ~ ye —— so? Hue pp. pay133 O&n.wEyaAny Kal énlpavy . tHY THC- dEevté pac

with eight plates is given by R. J. H. Jenkins-C. Mango, napovaiac Gvéuaas. diddaxei 68 énep 6 péyac

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 15.1961.225-42. “Hiiag nomjoel napayevopevoc

Item 18 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. — On 32 the subscription reads: Transcription of lines 2-6:

) _ étAn pobn n BiBAoc abdty thc Epynveiag tTHV 0

MOTEVOMEY E16 eva U(e0) Y O&KA TpOOHT@V Ocodwpytov. unvi Devpov

mare)p a TAVTOK P O70 api ia ivdlIKTI@Vvosg NéuNTHS ETOLS ATO

pa MOVTON Opatay KtigEws KOopov éEakiayiAloatod poe * ETI TE ral doparav 01 Tipo0gov Tob daiwtatov nyovpe(vov) TOO Kai LE NTHV Kal EIC Eva K(vplo)y. ta Wed)v KtHTOpOS Thc bmép ayiac Heotod)Kov thc Evep yéETLOOG. TOD Kal éykKAnaTou: Ola yElpoc T pnyo

piov (uovayobd) Kai npeo Buté pou: Oc Kai iketebv@ Tav

3 1’ 3Lod 9 tac tobc évtevéopévouc. evyeaOal Omwc éAenO@ :— b7nEp é

foll. 172%-173°. - 33 -

Auct. T.2.2 (S.C. 20588) (Misc. 202),

A.D. 1067, parchment, 232 x180 (185 X120) mm.

(S.C. Theodoret on the Prophets, PG 81. 1985Auct. B6 V. —1.51 1988. 5128( Misc. 347) 288 ( )s fol. 162”. Written by Gregory, of the monastery of the Euergetis in Constantinople.

, YAEEBOLY y 5 Late 1oth or 11th c., parchment, 255x195 (170 X 120) mm.

Plate 31 is chosen partly in order to show the slight traces oo,

ope . 8cursive Scholiastyle minora script on the Odyssey, end of book 21 .and of a3 more of line 22,inthe ,; . .; beginningof of book 22,ated.the W.end Dindorf, Scholia Homeri

enormous epsilon and the iota enclosed in the omicron. . Odysseam, Oxford 1855, vol. ii, pp. 703, 706 (symbol V

Plate 32 shows a good example of a complete and in- .

for this MS.). formative colophon. Asa whole the hand shows a bigger variety of letter forms than most of the preceding plates. Item 45 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue, which attributes

oo,the , thesame book to the second half of thedate tenth can century Other products of scriptorium at this raeand ,; , , , oo tentatively identifies the scribe as Gregorios kouboukleibe, -identified: Messina University, gr.997. 71 (A.D. 1064); or who wrote Laur. 69.6 in A.D. The identification Paris,, sios, Coislin 248 (A.D. 1065); Venice, Marc.gr.101 (428) , , , ;

date, Paris gr.863. . ; .

, , The , is very plausible, butalso withsigned, such a conventional, one might (A.D. 1065). scribe Gregory but did not ; og. almost say ‘copper-plate,’ style of hand it is difficult to be quite sure. Laur. 69.6 is conveniently illustrated by K. and

The standard of script and parchment is satisfactory but S. Lake, op. cit., MS. 368, plate 689. It may be noted in not exceptional; both are certainly inferior to the speci- passing that the Lakes’ plate shows a quire signature on men in the preceding plate, and it is useful to be reminded the bottom right-hand corner of the first page (cf. also that some books written in the capital were not luxury their fascicule of notes, p. 10), whereas in the Oxford

products. MS. these numbers are on the bottom left-hand corner of 20

the first page and the bottom right-hand corner of the Transcription of lines 1-7: last.

A. Diller, CP 55.1960.35, identified this MS. as comingaihevaev an of 6me sia Nhat Nb. Pa Oeldtatos *lovetiviavoc. from the library of Aurispa. It also belonged to San én In kai pivac rca gui pac 7 > Marco in Florence; see Berthold L. Ullman-Philip A. av pnvi dmpiddion. npéty. ivencti Stadter, The public library of Renaissance Florence, Padua Om néuncy: Erove ypnyarivov 1972 (Medioevo e Umanesimo 10), PP- 55, 65, 79, 263-4, Tog Kata Avtidyelav. NEVvtAaKo

279. aloatob épdounKoaotod néuntov’ Transcription of the first six lines: Ce taig Kata tO IIndiov innoic’ évtebOev Aéyetat

TO TOV Kevtabpov ava gofval yévoc: 60ev Kai tov Tet 35: pi0ovy énixdnary “lEtovoc vidv évta Aap Baverv é0¢

Ana (vacat) yovaiov napa tv avyyevv Kevtat pov Auct. T. 4.13 (S.C. 20531) (Misc. 251), fol. 42°. tyv Bacay Tob mpobyovtos abtov napbévov ‘In

nodduetav' # iatopia napa Tawdd pen -— Second half of the 11th c., parchment, 200 x135 (140 x 83) mm.

In lines 2-3 of the hypothesis of book 22 the scribe at first Epictetus, Discourses 2.1.

wrote Tységuayov with the usual abbreviation for the . . final syllable, and then changed the text to TyAeudzov A hand with an unusually wide range of compendia, without erasing the abbreviation or the proparoxytone some of which are remarked on by Cereteli, op. cit.,

accent. p. 191. Editors as a rule favour a date in the twelfth century, but on fol. 10% a small lacuna left blank by the original scribe has been filled by a correcting hand that cannot be later than the eleventh century.

- 34 . The plate shows a quire signature on the bottom left-hand corner of the first page; they are also found on the bottom

Barocci 182 (S.C. 182), fol. 273”. right-hand corner of the last page. 11th C., parchment, 313 «218 (215 x 135) mm. Item 12 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue.

John Malalas, Chronicle, the beginning of book 18, ed. L. Transcription of lines 1-5: Dindorf, Bonn 1831.

. ; ; napadoéov p(év) tox(Ov) paivet(ai) tlalv TO A¢lovs(Evov) bNO T(Dv)

Script and parchment of fairly high standard. J. B. Bury, giiodd pov: byes (58) oxeycople)A(a) K(a)cé Sévapuv ef Gdn

BZ 6.1897.219-30, corrects the collations of Hody and j a

Chilmead, and adds a note on the extensive use of com- Oé& (éot1) t6de' Iv’ Gua per) ebAaP(Gc). dua (dé) Bappovve(cnc)

pendia on fol. 321% (the folio is now numbered 322). mdv\(ta) oreiv: évavtiov Wap) max doKel tat Bap pasion

. . ) evAapéc ta 0°é 1a, obdap(@c) Gvvvn(ap)yer

Bury says that the scribe used the compendia in order to 70 ebiapiic’ 14 0 evavria ovoaplcos) tae finish the text without letting it extend onto another leaf of parchment, and this may well be true. From the

phrasing of his note it might be thought that the use of the - 36° compendia was in some way exceptional or noteworthy,

.]°e.

but an examination of the page shows that there is noth- Lincoln College, MS. Gr. 14, fol. 3°.

ing unusual in the script Second half of the 11thc., parchment, 195 X135 (c. 115 X Item 13 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. c. 60) mm. 21

Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite, On the celestial hierarchy The three hands indicate the variety of script possible 1, PG 3.120-1. The scholia do not coincide with the within a single scriptorium. The third is conventional in commentary of Maximus the Confessor, but they may style, and is most naturally dated to the eleventh century,

contain material from it. though a date in the early years of the twelfth would not

. ; . beshows out ofcursive the question. Sinceofthe threetoscribes were The.script tendencies a type be seen in ;certainly at work together (the book is not a collection of manuscripts from the middle the of the century onwards. . . ; disparate elements), conventional handasis is of,great Accents are written on some of the nomina sacra, importance for the correct dating of more cursive styles. common at this date. Another new development about , dated to the i, a. The book is often, and quite of wrongly,

the same time is the habit, seen e.g., in line 10 of the text ,

, —_ thirteenthof century, A. van Heck, Gregorii Nysseni de and line 17 of the scholia, usinge.g., two abbreviations ; and . . pauperibus amandis orationes duo, Leiden 1964,one p. xix,

above the other ( xdécpov and Aoinod ). The scholiaSanctum are , i, Steph-

oo, . in O.theLendle, Gregoriismall Nysseni encomium written same remarkably hand packed with ; in

- anum protomartyrem, Leiden 1968.

abbreviations throughout the book.

, ; , In the partfive of lines the book the quires are numbered on Transcription of first the first of text and scholia: P 4 the bottom left-hand corner of the first page and the

BC . bottom right-hand corner of thetéAElov. last. From 407 the nmdoa ddaic ayaby Kai mav Ow pnua Avopage ns eee oe numbers occur on the bottom right-hand corner of the dév éati KataPaivov ano tod n(at)p(o)s THV YOT@V ¢ | h dently had

adda Kai néca natpoxivitov gato pavelac irst page only. The scriptorium evidently had no conTp6odos sic nuadc ayaBoddtMs poItdaa NAA Os sistent practice.

EvoLOIoS OUvapIC. AvataTIKaS Nude avaroi. W. Jaeger, Gregorii Nysseni opera omnia, Leiden 1960-_ ,

snerd{i) # ka wal? fylde)lepapyia i (a) f ¥ cae) vol. viii, parti, edits the text shown on plate 37 and ETEL EKKANOIAOCTIK: ‘ assigns 9in .M. OT ES TEEag) PPLE TION LAN OUV " the MS.H to ‘saec. xuI-xml’ (p. 172). MS. no. 230

Kataotaa(ic) KaA(Eiv) Aubj .

Lev eimWev) iepa py(yv) tov) éxioxon(ov) 4 m(at)pi(ap)y(yv) Ov Kai ubineau, OP. CIt., p. 212.

apxlepea) paper Transcriptions of plate 37, lines 1-5 of the text, plates 38 TOUT (EaT1) T(Ov) T(@v) tepe(@v) Gpyovta: iepeic yap t(ovc) and 39 the opening lines of the new text: 7 peo Bute povs Kai dlaK0(vouc) Kal (Ov) A01T(OV) (4c) ExkAy(aiac) oidév Katadoy(ov). 7 pENOVOA THI TL pOGl pédel aoov n amovon. n TE pi TOD YVCOVGAl

01a TOOTO Kal nic dv (ic) dia tob K(a)t apetny Biov texeimOA Hote dia lepapy(iav) t(yv) t(a@v) igpapxz(@v) aciav. é€aipétwc dé t(Hv) t(0d) mdvt(cov)

apxiepapy(ov) K(a)to pOwmOAvai cov tH Cwm TO Gu@pnt(ov) * éya@ dé NEpi mavt(oc) u(év) dv éxovnadu(ny) év tai €ud1 Biwi tdév coi onovoa Cou(éeveov) ed peGfival ta bnodelyu(a)ta’ Mate toic Epyoic mpo

Plate 37 shows the common feature of double accents on

- 37. 9 938 39 .- pév , 68 and av.

mpl(Oc) Eavt(obc) t(dv) Aa(ov) éxaA(ovv). Cromwell 9 (S.C. . 72,93237, 631. xOéc oi W(da)p(topEc). 9 ( 93). PP- 742237; vov tai K(a)taywy(iw) tio éxKAn(aiac)

Probably second half of the 11th c., parchment, 212 émicevo bvtal abtoKAntor vou(oc) 0€ TIC) €ati GvuTOTIK(OG). TAG

150 (153 X 102) mm. éyKuKAiovg Tabt(ac) Eotida(Eis¢) Napa t(Hv) daitvpdoW ov). aAAn Moc) éK me(pl)t pon(tc) én

The plates show: Gregory of Nyssa, de perfectione ad dldoaAal): obKodv avayKn K(ai) 7UaG(c) . (dv) abt(dv) avtinAn pdaat

Olympium ascetam, PG 46.252; in XL martyres, PG 46. 1(06) deinv(ov) toi 756-7; Cyril of Alexandria, de adoratione in spiritu et Ud) p(tvaiv) Epav(ov) AX ére1d(n) néver(al) nuiv n yopnyia t(ob)

veritate, PG 68.533. Adyov). KaA(Hc) Exet t(oic) 22

The scribe of plate 38 abbreviates to such an extent that a nop(evoc) Zebd¢ éxxAn(aiav) K(ai)

number of letters and syllables are not even indicated by a ovvayayny tav Gedv compendium. The same is true of some other cursive enoina(ev) ev tH byn hands of the following centuries, and in such cases the Aoraye(n) aK POP eta roo correct transcription has to be inferred partly from the noAdac exove06) O2vu

context. toig éOnunyo _ kai €Ad dé. oi Geoipel (68)

mov é€ox(ac)* abt(d¢)d° ab

nmavtayobsey on obv ® IladAdole mapa coi voeiv. wc Op

dovcs té Kai ax pifpeic dyav molgio@ai KEAEvEl THS pvoTta yeoyiac tobe Adyouc, Kai 6 nédar vépoc * obk AC yuov 58 Plate 41, the first four lines of the text, the three lines of toic é€anatav ciwOdai tHv andovatépwv TIvac. TO yph paraphrase in the upper margin and the first note in the

ua tiOeic. Eon nad: éav OE TIC KAéWH Udayov' i lower margin (where the notes are probably by the scribe of plate 40): téws “Ayaioi uév péy éextdaivov’ obvex”’ AyidAded

. AO 4] . ECegavy’ Onp(ov) dé uadync éenénavt aheyeivifc.

4 Tpdac 0€ tpdposg aiv(oc) bryAv6e yia Exactov:

Auct. T. 2.7 (S.C. 20611) (Misc. 207), foll. 115°,

déldlotac’ 08 opa@vto nodaKea Undéiova.

334". 1 té(aoc) u(év) of “EAAn(vec) ueyads(@c) &d0gaCovto viK@VTES Old

175 (130X100) mm. amo - - . .

Probably second half of the 11th c., parchment, 252 x to tov) “AxiAde(a) nodby xpovov tod pbaptiKod nodEu(ov)

2 mavoulevov) tote avagavival. tobs (de) Tp@(ac) gd B(oc) Kai

Homer, Iliad 8.479-82, 9.1-11, 21.42-59. The marginalia tpow(oc) KatéAal Bev) Ewpakot(ac) t(dv) tod nie) viov

are mostly a paraphrase, but the last note on plate 41 is Agi from Porphyry, ed. H. Schrader, Leipzig 1880, pp. 241. 3 Aéa) toIC OnAOIG Adpnovt(a) Ouoics td t(ov¢) Bpot(ovc)

25-243.15. avaipobvtt “Ape we (dé) oi Ooi Eni tO THY Avdp(Bv) TARA Os)

Two more interesting examples of early cursive script. There seem to be two scribes, although in the manuscript 1 on(pueiceoat) ti f (Hv) Oe(Hv) uayn nepiéxer pvoir(7v) itself it is difficult to see where one ends and the other atolzelaov) np{oc) atoiy(cia) tag(tv) KaKi(@v) 7 pos)

begins. apet(ac). AndAdA(wv) pév (ap) évavtiobt(a1) Toaetda(vi) tO Le pik(Ov) nip, TO Navti vy pa:

T. W. Allen, Homeri Ilias, vol. 1, Oxford 1931, p. 30, 2 °A@nva (62) “Apei’, 7 gpdvn(aic) th dgpoatyn. “Hpa (6é) dated the book to the twelfth century, but I suspect that "A ptéuid(1), 6 neptye(oc) np th oednvn « “Epune (68) Antoi. he was too conservative in his estimate of the rate at 6 Adyoc) tH ARON’ “Heaiat(oc) (68) ZavOo0, which the cursive hands of scholars developed. (His foot- 3 td 6A(ov) nip pépet tod Kdat(oc):— note ibidem about the yield of parchment from animal

skins is based on a faulty transcription.) In the poetic text on plate 41 it is noticeable how the

ae letters with round shapes, omicron, pi, rho and sigma,

Transcrip fon of plate 40, the marginalia in the right-hand are enlarged and emphasized. This is a feature seen also in

column (which are continued in the lower margin): a chrysobull from the imperial chancery dated a.D. 1084, illustrated as plate 69 in F. Délger—J. Karayannopoulos,

wlev) kpoxoe1o(é) Byzantinische Urkundenlehre, Munich 1968, and in an-

néniov Eyov other document of the same kind dated a.pD. 1060, ibidem

oa nuépa, AnAobto plate 4. Though there are also differences between these éni mda(av) t(nv) yiv. 6 68 documents and our manuscript, I think the similarity

toic KEepavvoic tEp noted is some support for the date suggested. 23

- 4) . Messina. For an accurate transcription see G. Mercati, Per la storia dei manoscritti greci di Genova, di varie badie

Corpus Christi College, MS. 25, fol. 3". basiliane d'Italia e di Patmos, Vatican City 1935 (Studi e

, Testi 68), pp. 288, 332; he also noted that the figure 2

A.D. 1109, parchment, 335 X250 (235 X170) mm. (82) in the top margin corresponds to the seventeenth-

, , , , , the Saviour.

Commentary on St. Matthew. century library inventory of the Messina monastery of Written and signed by one Nicholas, who describes him-

self as yOapualob Kai ebtedod¢ goitntos . The same scribe One hand, with minor variations of script on foll. 319, wrote and signed British Museum Add. MS. 28270, con- 95", 111°. There is nothing in it to indicate provincial taining John Moschos, and there described himself as origin. In preparing the quires the scribe sometimes ruled EDTEAODS KaAAlypagov Kal Tarelvob yOapahob . I take the two bifolia together, sometimes all four. After ruling the

word goityt#c to mean ‘student,’ but I have not found vertical lines for the margins with a hard point he some-

the term used in any other subscription. times went over them again with a crayon, as can be seen

| on 43; thisNicholas is a sign of origin in Italy or Sicily. In bothplate manuscripts numbered the quires on the P57Y top right-hand corner of the first page and ruled the Item 21 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. bifolia two sheets at a time. Note that in lines 6-7 of the Transcription of lines 1-4 of the text:

first column he wrote the word odpavév in full and then

added a stroke above it as if it were a nomen sacrum; but edloyntoc 6 Oed)c: abt(dv) pap) ebdoyetv a€tov: eic uvriun(v)

this is just a minor over sight on his part. éavtovs tod Osiov Xopedy Kablévtac: Kai Ta Ka Item 60 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. Tavtoy ion avy ypagely Nponpnuevouc’ Lvpeco(y) Exeivov. TOD Kata tO Oavpaatov Gpos ayyedikny

Transcription of the first paragraph: a dia ti A€yetai edayyédov

evayyédiov 4OTI napobaa BiBAoc avai - 44 ?45 AEVETAL’ KOAGGEWS peo: (Kai) duaptnudatoy Ava: . .136), . a Auct. T. infra 1.10 (S.C. 28118) (Misc. rr (Kai) diKalocbvnv’ Kai aylacuov.

(kai) AnoALTpwalv: Kai vioBEci foll. 17°, 424".

av" Kai KAnpovopiay THY ov 12th c., parchment, 205 x160 (125 X95) mm. pava@yv mado evayyediCeta.

New Testament; plate 44 shows the opening of Eusebius’ letter to Carpianus, printed pp. 32*-3* in the W. Nestle edition, 17th and later editions, Wiirttemburg 1941-_ ;

- 43 - plate 45 is Hebrews 13:17-25. The manuscript is famous for its illumination, which is

Rawlinson G. 199 (S.C. 14916) (Misc. 178), still in excellent condition. Art historians are inclined to

fol. 1°. date it to the very beginning of the twelfth century, but

.D.4nP,53% parchment, 20illumination (1 160) mm. , a,Journal of 95% century. On the see C. Meredith,

AD. 1141 hment. 2 220 ( 60) the character of the script suggests to me a date later in the

Nicephorus Ouranos, Life of St. Simeon Stylites junior the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 29.1966.419-24 (with

(BHG ed. 3, no. 1690). eight plates).

The subscription, illustrated in K. and S. Lake, op. cit., The script is very regular. Plate 44 shows a page where the under MS. no. 63, states that the book was written in scribe tried to write a kind of half-uncial, but the habits 24

of his minuscule hand were too strong for him and appear - 46,47, 48 from time to time, as will be evident from a comparison

with the following plate. Plate 45 conveys the impression Auct. T. 1.6 (S.C. 20584) (Misc. 184), of a man trying with limited success to follow the style of foll. 53", $5”, 185”. script seen in well-produced books of the eleventh cen-

tury. Early 12th c., parchment, 288 x234 (218 x154) mm.

Plate 45 shows a quire signature in Georgian; the series is Collection of theological material; on the contents see not in the same ink as the text, and even if it were it would G. Richter, Die Dialektik des J ohantes von Damaskos, Ettal

not help to establish the provenance of the book since the 1964 (Studia patristica et byzantina 10), pp. 23-39. Georgians were found in many parts of the Byzantine B. Kotter, Die Ueberlieferung der Pege Gnoseos des heiligen

empire. Johannes von Damaskos, Ettal 1959 (Studia patristica et byzantina 5), pp. 48-9, dates this MS. to the thirteenth

In 1391 the book was restored in the monastery of the century, but notes that Diekamp had assigned it to the ‘Odnyoi in Constantinople; the notes shown in pale ink on twelfth. Plate 46 is shown as evidence for the dating

plate 45 date from then; see below on plate 71. suggested above. The lower half of the page was originally left blank, and lists of deceased patriarchs and emperors

Item 80 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. were later added. The lists were written after the deaths Transcription of plate 44, the first six lines of the text of Nicholas and Alexios (a.p. 1114 and 1118 respective(note that in line 15 the scribe seems to have written ly); they were subsequently continued after the patriarch

épiOuos in error for apiOuoic): Leo and the emperor John Comnenos had died (both in 1143). There is a fairly strong presumption that the book

"Aupovioc pév 6 “Adséavdp(edc) noAAHAV) belongs to the early years of the twelfth century. The ac eikoc pidonoviay (Kai) anovdny eioa hands have some affinity with that of a document dated YNMYAS, TO 1a tecoapov Huiv) Katadrédor 1092 or 1107, illustrated in Délger-Karayannopoulos, nev ebayyédiov’ to Kata Matbaiov tac ouo op. cit., plate 71 (also shown as plate 14 in F. Délger pcovoug tev doindy edayyediatav. nepuco Aus den Schatzkammern des heiligen Berges, Munich 1948)

mac napadsic. waco é€Twoavayknc ov Piva Tov , cursive hands, notable for the length of the strokes

Plate 45, lines 1-3 of the text and the note in the bottom used in writing the compendia above the line.

margin: Transcription of plate 46, lines 6-8 (lines 1-8 each consist of an elegiac couplet to be read across the page): TOOTO MOIMGI Kai Un otEevacovtec advoi

tedéc yap byiv toto" npooevyeave TEpi téaa(ov) &y(e1v)’ ti 0 Euotye vo(ov) (Kai) uic(iv) dgpact(ov)

nudv nenoiapev yap, oti Kadny ap piOe(eiv) Ovytoi otépyete UETpA Adyou: él pév On meneiOoi. tO Adilov): Ei (dé) “eAaiv(eic)

+ énAnpoOn to Kal nuép(av) eda(yyédiov) u(e)t(a) tod (dv) yapt(nv) nodAaic uwpida(tv) éxéov, anoat(a)A(ov) K(ai) t(@v) aa(BBato) Kv(piax@v) dsp dye nAagi teaig GAlydatiza tabdt(a) yapac(w),

(Kal) OAC@v _ ypaupat éuy ypagior. 4 pwésav obdév Exel. TOV EOPT@V TOD Eviavt(ob), Ka (ta) Lfva iob’vV(10OVv) tc) 10 IVOIKTI@VOC) TOD C@OG Etov

saline BO nnn ) invée. (cai) of evtvyydvovelec) Plate 47, the scholium at the foot of the page: Tavty(?) evyea@ai d1a(?) tov

ODVEPYHOaVTa Euoi Eis TODTO iepopdovayov KUp(lov) 1 GAR io(cas) Epoda(tv) of ric) aAnBeilac) ExOpor" Ort

Donyd ptov. xéuoi 1 eayiote Kopidd(oc) év tH 1p(0s) Neotopi(ov) Emin to( AH) enaw); (Kai) épaptoid Iadcag t6 and tc) povic tav ‘Odnyav-t Otinep obK got din A(00G) 6 Eig, Kai Udvocg X(piate)s * O

25

2 poi(wc) K(ai) év 7 B téuc tH K(a)t(a) Neotopiov gn(aiv). The present volume consists of three manuscripts bound OT1 Ob OInA(ODc) NY Apa oi tabt(a) A€yov(tEc) ob pavEep(Bc) together; one of the others is shown in plate 63.

cpepivooa Hons) nlare)pag davrloic)ré x{ai) The volume belonged to John Stoikovié of Ragusa and 3 addnAoicy Kai pay(nv) EF Opodd¢(wv) dvviat()av Kai oi¢6 ~~ Nicholas of Cusa. See R. W. Hunt, Texte und Unter-

X(piato)s t(yv) éavtob eipy(vyv) Katédine™ tovt(oIc) suchungen 92.1966.75-82 and A. Krchiiak, Mitteilungen elo ppyatav\(tec). d1aBodlov) prplobv)c(ai): t(odc) Guo ppowas) — und Forschungen der Cusanus-Gesellschaft 3.1963.105-7.

4 we évavtilovc) d(ia)at plov\(tEc) Kai abt(ov) dé KipiAdoy). . saws Non a einteNo trovduteree «aby On) K. Aland, OP, Cit, NO. 2205. npsic * ob0’ boric) (obv) eb ppovaev’ Transcription of lines 1-3 of the text: 5 adA(a) K(a)t(a) pny pi(ov) kai t(obc) Aoin(obc) n(até)pac abv KopisA(@) gaulév). 6tin(Ep) 01 A(0bc) K(a)t(a) tHV odai(av): 1 OVVEXNS Avayvoaic tHv Geiwv ypagav, Eig tyV yvd@aiv

kai nd(A1v). x(a)t(&) t(6v) abt(ov) Kopidd(ov) oxon(dv): QvTaY dyer awevdnc yap oO ein@v: Cnteite (Kal) edpHaste.

coc (obv) K povete (kal) avolynostal bu(iv). Kai TOV ériatoA(Ov)

Toivov tod paxapiov IlavAov ta pootn pia uadnoopucba,

6 dinA(od¢) tH yapaxtnpiotiKh bnootd(ael). cic yap peive Kai ovvey(c)

Evavd (co) nrjaas, 6 Hed)¢ Adyoo:— GOTO (Kai) éupedds Evtvyydvovtes: thv (ap) dAdwv

the page): - 50 -

GNAVT@V ENAEOVEKTNGE, THO THC OldacKadi(ac) Adya.

Plate 48, the first three lines of the new text (middle of

amelpodvvaum yap) Gedyast tob Keo)d, Kai yéyove navta Kai E. D. Clarke 2 (S.C. 18364), fol. 113°. om cetal

ra yevoulev)a: K(a)t(a) tove éavt(Bv) edxprv(ac). Exacta Probably late 12th c., Oriental paper, 245 x168 (190 x

ovvty pobuevja Adyous. abt(Gv) 135 ) mm.

tO K(a)t(4) pda(tv) ane1podvvaylco) He)o Kai noth (Av) Nicetas Stethatos, the end of his Profession of faith, ed.

OAcov) (fc) Geilac) abde(ob) Gedjoccrs. J. Darrouzés, Nicetas Stethatos, Opuscules et lettres, Paris 1961 (Sources Chrétiennes 81), pp. 460-2, and the beginning of his treatise against the errors of the Armenians.

A very difficult and untidy hand. Darrouzés, op. cit., p.

» 49 - 40, not having seen the manuscript itself, wondered if it . might be of the late thirteenth century. I am convinced Auct. E. 1.6 (S.C. 3011) (Misc. 20), fol. 2". that it is not quite so late, but would be prepared to allow 12th c., Oriental paper, 326 x236 (272 X197) mm. that it might belong to the earlier part of the thirteenth Theophylact on the Pauline epistles; the plate shows the

century.

beginning, PG 124.335-340 A. Transcription of the first two charges against the Armenians (they are numbered in the left-hand margin) A ‘scholarly’ hand, with considerable use of compendia (lines 7~10): but much less flamboyant than many others of the same

date. (Av) Oei(av) pbo(iv) Aéyoval naMeiv). Kai tH tHv 4pOapto DY) aipéoel bDnAyovt(al):— padi

The paper, though rubbed in places, is on the whole well Hv) non na a 3), obo wat cai pave Gc) 08 preserved. In the left-hand margin the enlarged initial rohpidar déerv), GAM obv olg Spdsat tobto éy letters of the lemmata or text have to be supplied at the paivovat. tpeig Wap) at(av)pobs avlevyvdvt(Ec) Kai Evi CUA@

beginning of lines 1 (eta), 14 (pi), 21 (delta), 24 and dddniove daavei Coyd nploa)nn

29 (tau). yvbvtec, 6vouaCoval tobto n ay(ia) tpi(dc):

26

—. 5 In the text of the Psalms the scribe made some attempt to write a formal hand, while the commentary is more

Auct. E.4.24 (S.C. 27872) (Misc. 64), fol. 9°. cursive in style. At the end of the book, perhaps in order

. to save space, we find him using some very rare comDate uncertain, 13th c. at the earliest, Oriental paper, pendia, most of which were noted by T. W. Allen, PBA

220 X160 (135 X100) mm. 12.1926.3 n. 1. On the authorship of the catena see G. Liturgy; the plate shows texts from the Roman edition Mercati, Opere minori, vol. ii, Vatican City 1937, (Studi

of the Menaion, vol. i, pp. 10-11. e Testi 77), pp. 455-6. Throughout the book there are Arabic titles as shown Transcription of plate 52, the additional note in the top the plate and the serial numbers of the quires are in Arabic. margin: I am indebted to Prof. A. F. L. Beeston for assistance in

dealing with this MS. He informs me that the first three épun(veia) 108 xO wadp(od): & Aa( Bev) Aap) rAY Auer(é)pav)

folios are somewhat later than the rest of the book, and dnapy(nv) 6 deandenc) nao(av) drab that on fol. 3 there is a record of a dedication of the vol- THC THY Mvativ) thc a(~wtn)pi(ac) Héiwa(ev). Kai éxiyaptov

ume to the monastery and churches of Ma’lula in north- yevéaOal toic éyOp(oic) Kai toic nodal

ern Syria, the presentation being attested by the patriarch pi(oic) ovK eiao(ev)

Dorotheos of Antioch in the year 6945 (A.D. 1437). daipoxarv): As a general rule Oriental paper is rarely used in Greek Plate 53, the last eight lines: manuscripts after c. A.D. 1340, and never after c. A.D.

1380; see J. Irigoin, Scriptorium 4.1950.194—204, esp. 201. ci Kai doBeveatatny. ne pi)uévoplev) (dé) Aorn(ov) (qv) &¢

But since this book comes from Syria or some neighbour- byougs dvvapiv Kab ing province, where the use of Oriental paper continued Mlev)or év t(oic) lep ogoAbuloic) tovt(éotiy) ev tH aAjict(c)

longer than in the Byzantine empire, the general rule _ BPOTeS KH (ai) Haic) aA Mac) . oa cannot be applied with confidence. The script itself does node nue) Het Mpoc mud’ Play Kpataray’ oD (ap) not give any satisfactory clue as to the date. veatdt(yv) Kat(a) t(iv) Huetépav Biav épyaCoplév)y: GAA(a)

Transcription of the last four lines: Bilav) t1(4) gplajaOqv(ar) . 61a o(a)pKiv(@v) xyelde(@v) un dvv(a)ulevyXyv) viK(@)al(av) TOAAG

éyvmoay thy cogiav m(at)Ep THY ONV’ , ow K pa) io (real) K(a)e(ajoulp a) vio .

é L(év)\(yv) to(te)K(a)Kiat(ov) HOG), (Kai) t(HVv) t(@v)

flep ool AiGionarc Evoor (xai) LKv6ar dallov(wv) Kakot(n)t(a)’ vix@aav (dé) (Kal) t(HVv)

a edn nis a eae Mery aa fem ne

vik(@)o(av) (dé) (Kal) t(ac) (a) p(é)x(Eic) (toad) a(a) Latoc Kivyaeic: (é)y(e)v(e)to (ap) on(atv) HyOS ék TOO ob(pa)vod manep) pepap(év)(ns)

» 52,53 -

Barocci 118 (S.C. 118), foll. 37", 200°. ~ 5413th c., parchment, 220 x150 (165 X100) mm. Barocci 177 (S.C. 177), fol. 24". Plate 52 shows Psalms 28:11-29:6 with an anonymous , , 13th c., parchment, 305 235 (220X140) mm. catena; plate 53 is from John Carpathius, capitula ad monachos in India constitutos 48-50 (but here numbered Aristotle, Organon; the plate shows the beginning of the

by the scribe 43-5), PG 85.1847-8. De interpretatione. 27

A very untidy hand on poor quality parchment. Glosses The serial numbers of the quires in the Canonici MS. are and marginalia by the scribe, except that there are a few written on various positions on the first page and on the later additions, e.g., in the right-hand margin under the bottom right-hand corner of the last page.

, , , TE

diagram, in the sixteenth-century hand that is usuall _ ;

said to be that of Andrea Dono. The book is not likely 0 Transcription of the title and first entry: be earlier than the middle of the thirteenth century. avvaywyn AéEewv. ovdAseyeion ék d1iagopwv Pifprim@v: naraids

Transcription of the last eight lines: onui ypagnc kai tA véac: Kai abtiic Oxmov tHc Ospabev:— G Meta TO a’

dvopa pév) obv Eot1, PVA OnuavTliK)y Kata GoVvOnKHY GED dantoc, anpoonédactocg: napa to dntw, &nto0¢ Kal Gantoc.

Xpovov 7c yndolev) ob obk dy TIC dywalto.

pépos (éat1) anuavt(iK)ov Kexopioplevjov. ev yap) tH ivy ampdaitos. 4 6 Gyav antopevoc, énitda(el) tod a: Kadddinnoc, to innoc, ovdév av

0 al? canto onpaiver @onep ev TH AOpen tH Kadoc innos. All manuscripts of lexica use a number of special abbre-

ee ae . . , viations technical terms,OvT(Cac) and thisExel plate(Kal) shows two ovd @anep év T(oic)for anAoic Ovopaai(v) Ev 4: | ; exrote) nenheyplévyore av é amples in lines 8 and 9 of the text (adpiotog and onpaiver).

Keivoic u(év) (ap) TO UEpoc ovdaL(Gc) onuavt(ik)ov. év dé tovtoic Bobdetal U(év), aA WV obdEevog KEeywpioL(Ev)ov. oiov év TH EMAKTPOKEA(NG). TO

KéAnc’ TO (0é) K(a)ta ovv

Onxny, 6t1 pvasl THV Ovop(d)t(@v) obd(EV) (atv). GAN OT’ Ev - 56 ) 57 ° vévytal abupod(ov). Entei On

ovodév (éoTIV) Gvoua

Aobal yé t1 (Kai) oi aypaup(a)tot wo got, oiov, On piwy Ov Barocci 133 (S.C. 133), foll. 42”, 43°. 13th c., Oriental paper, 260 x180 (210 X150) mm.

Miscellany; the plate shows Nicephorus Blemmydes,

- 55 - Epitome logica, PG 142.817D—828D. The book is written in a number of scholarly hands of the

Canonici gr. 65 (S.C. 18518), fol. 1°. middle and late thirteenth century, some of which vary

, greatly in appearance, so that it is difficult to tell where

13th c., Oriental paper, 258 x192 (190 x140) mm. one ends and another begins. The two plates given here, Zonaras, Lexicon, ed. J. A. H. Tittman, Leipzig 1808, showing the end of one quire and the first page of the

pp. 1-2. next, exhibit a feature not normally found in Greek It is possible that the scribe is to be identified with the manuscripts earlier than the Italian Renaissance, the use of Constantine Dalassenos who wrote MS. Escorial ¥ —III- catchwords. At the bottom of plate 56, partly cut away 16 in A.D. 1256, illustrated in plates 44-5 of C. Graux-A. by the binders, one can just make out the first words of Martin, Facsimilés des manuscrits grecs d’ Espagne, Paris 1891. plate 7.

A feature of the Canonici MS. is that the scribe often The very cramped appearance of the hand on the lower writes the words évoua and oiov in the form of mono- half of plate 56 is explained by the scribe’s need to comcondylia, i.e., in a continuous stroke without lifting his press a given quantity of text so that it could all be inpen from the surface of the writing material; the plate cluded on the last page of the quire; the first page of the shows an example of the latter in line 12 of the text. The next quire had already been begun by another scribe at a plates in Graux-~Martin do not show this feature, but if it prearranged point in the text. That point will doubtless is to be found elsewhere in the book, the correctness of the have been the beginning of a quire in the exemplar from

identification becomes practically certain. which the two scribes were copying, and the exemplar 28

had been taken to: pieces so as to permit the scribes to 62: Eustathius Macrembolites, De Ismeniae et Ismenes work simultaneously. For another instance of this custom amoribus, ed. R. Hercher, Erotici graeci ii (1889), pp. see R. Kassel, Der Text der aristotelischen Rhetorik, Berlin 270.14-274.2.

1972s PP- 54-5: The hands are typical of scholars in the middle and late Transcription of the first four lines of each plate: thirteenth century, and it happens that all five can be identified with reasonable certainty in other manuscripts. (Kai) ddoyov dlalpyoavtac. bnodleX(eiv) atic to Aoyik(Ov) Eic 58 shows the hand dated a.p. 1251 in MS. Vat.gr.106

Ovyt(ov), (Kai) GBavatov. obtw yap (see the plate in A. Turyn, Codices Vaticani graeci saeculis noinoavt(sc) H TOV EdAAnvik(v) BOAoVv avatiaop(ev) (Kai) Ta xilt et xiv exarati annorumque notis instructi, Vatican City

ov(pa)via ceopata Scha tepatevae 1964). 60 is the other scribe of Vat.gr.106. 59 is almost Hebe (xai) avroi. (ral) Aoyina, (ai) abavara, i H(0vC) certainly to be seen in the first leaves of Paris.gr.2735. ayyedonc Coa ° inovelec) adavara doc doou (ev) . 61 is without doubt the hand dated 1296 in Vat.gr.191,

QvTOLS Euwbyous TE (Kal) aidO@ntiKobc. Ei TOLTO O€ (Kai) seocopatenpévove. (Kai) oit(c0g) shown by Turyn, op. cit., plate 59. 62 bears a strong

resemblance to folios 1-18 of Vat.gr.309 and is almost K lai oneddet todtwv éKdtEpov, viKhaal tO étep(ov), 6nac dv certainly identical with Barb. gr.240. TOD DIOKELMEVOD YEVNTAL EYK PATE. OBOE Yap

igxvEel' TO bTOKELLEVOV, évV TH ATH voOv tavavtia déEacOal On the contents and composition of the whole manu-

OdIKaS. Hote tavavtia. (Gv) év boKepévn script see a forthcoming article by N. G. Wilson in the EoTlv’ 4 O€ ye Obata’ T(@v) év broKElpevw yun obca, ECEl ODOEV’ Bodleian Library Record.

ovdé yap Evavtiov tH obaia Osin Tic Gv. TO uN OV. 6 yap oo,

obddapds byéatnkev, oddeui(av) ayéa(iv) Exel Mpos EtEp(OV). Item 27 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue.

ei 0& TO Nop Kai tO Hdwp, GAAjAoic évavtia doKei, Transcription of plate 58, lines 1-3 of the text: TaAlv é Ee ¥ piopa (Kal) nv(Eebu)a’ Kai NAA éy@ MEVvO@Y Kai

axv0pwnala@y mopevoual. Kai TO (4c) ayaddidaews Edai(ov), obnwm tHhv t(@v) Aoyiap(@v)

* 58-62 - TpIKDLIAV TaVvTEAM@S KatEaTto pecev’ GAA EtI TAIC Kvpayowyiaic tadAavtevduea. (Kai) avaBaivoy(ev) ws t(@v)

Barocci 131 (S.C. 131), foll. 827, 107", 244°, ov(pa)vdv, (Kai) KataBaivou(ev) Ews t(Hv) 4Bioowv’ 452", 505”.

13th c., Oriental paper, 255 x170 (c. 210 xc. 140) mm. Note the two quire numbers in the lower margin; the alpha shows that this was originally the first page of an Miscellany, part of which may have been compiled in the independent book, and when it was incorporated into the Nicaean period (1204-61). The five plates show the most present codex it received the new serial number 11. important hands. The texts are:

58: the beginning of an oration by Germanos II, patriarch Plate 50, the first three lines of letter no. 3: of Constantinople, ed. S. N. Lagopates, Tepyavoc 6 B natpiapyns Knosews-Nixaiag, Tripolis 1913, pp. 214-7. ciiot éyéx ti note tocobtoc bmeppin ypdvoc: (Kai) ypdupa

59: parts of letters 1-3 of Michael Choniates, ed. S. P. tic ofc) ob seEduny Lambros, Athens 1880, vol. il, pp. 2-4. aylot(y)t(o¢) paxapiot(a)t(e) déonota’ iv aK pifds eidei(nv) 60: the beginning of Manuel Holobolos, encomium on 6n(w) Hvvatai aol ta THC Odoinopiac. Michael Palaeologos, ed. M. Treu, Manuelis Holoboli ora- 6n(wc) é¢ tHV Oeccahovixewv) dgikov' pAnotE H vvpLgEvtiones ii, Programm des kniglichen Victoria-Gymnasiums zu caplév)y ae NOA(IC) abty K(a)ta tac Papvcydouc Potsdam Ostern 1907, Potsdam 1907, pp. 51-77.

61: Constantine Manasses, chronicle, verses 1315-1450, The large and unwieldy forms of beta and gamma are

ed. I. Bekker, Bonn 1837. typical of many scribes in the period c. 1250-1300. 29

Plate 60, the first three lines of the text: Gregory of Nyssa, De hominis opificio, PG 44.133B136B. Baothed abtoxpatop Geopeyddvvte’ vopu(oc) obt(oc) (Kai) 6

voploc), "Ivddv. "Ivdoi ta é¢ cogiay obK & From another part of the manuscript shown in plate 49. yevveic: oig 611 gidondv(ws) (Kai) THY Huedanny do giav The date of this hand is assured by its resemblance in

daxobal, (Kai) t0 BapBap(ov) axoééev HO(0c) some details to the script used in documents from the pos TO EAAnVIK(Ov) anopayovtar’ tolyapobv (Kai) Ad;(0¢) ol imperial chancery at this date. I have argued elsewhere

tod napovt(os) eig npdacpa, KeicOw. vou(oc) “Ivddv. that the date of the famous Codex Crippsianus of the Attic orators may be established in the same way: see Plate 61, verses 1315-20 (the columns are to be read CQ 5$4.1960.202. In the present case the resemblance is

across the page): not so strong, but I think the argument is valid. peta pix pov 6 édevaovtai t(Ac) udy(yc) teAeaBeia(ns), Transcription of lines 3-5:

(Kai) coi u(év), Boic npoadéova(iv) ayédac te Opeup(a)t(@v). abtoi 0& a pEtepicovt(al) ypnu(a)t(@wv) dAas OyKac. aEiov 0& unde TODTO Tapidsiv GBEw pNToOV OT TOD THAIKOUTOD oi¢ tobs “EAAnv(@v) dvvat(obc) bnonomMaovTai TE, KOGLOD KGi TOV KAT QDTOV LEP@V OTOIYELWOMS TPOC THV

(Kai) Kat(a) cob Kivyaova(iv), wc tc) apy(Hc) éxméo(NS). TOD MAVTOG ynKovae Tad0°6 Baaiiebc) éneiaOn ovvypinayn avataaiyv bnopAndévtwv anoayedialetai Nwc H KtiaIc bNO

Plate 62, the first four lines (in two places in the first line The scribe writes iota subscript somewhat to the right the paper has been slightly damaged, and in the second of of the vowel to which it belongs (e.g., line 6), and in this these passages I have left a lacuna because the text does respect is old-fashioned; by the middle of the thirteenth

not seem to correspond to the printed edition): century the subscript was written exactly underneath the vowel (see plate 52, line 23, and plate 58, line 7 of the oi 0& ye M(até) pes Gdvvy potEp(ov) avvennyxovv (Kal) text). OvVEKONTOVTO’ @ Maid(Ec) OA@AaTE AEYOVU(TEC)......

npeic avvoA@sau(ev) Ep(wc) Eat patevae Ka’ bu(@v) * (Kai) t(ac) bu(@v) Kapd(iac) énoAidpKyaev.

Epos ° 64, 6 5 °

Ep(cac) t(7v) év buiv) nop pbpay tHs napHe)v(iac)

éabAna(e). (Kai) Kat(a) KéyAov Husic ann ppaxOnulev). (Hv) buEet(é)p(av) podwmvi(av) annvOioato. (Kai) TAC

nust(é)p(ac) woxas 6A(ac) événpnoe Kal aipaciay. Barocci 120 (S.C. 120), foll. 32", 110¥.

Ep(ws) appodiaiw nupi (nv) to) vedt(y)t(0C) bu(@v)

bé puny Early 14th c., Oriental paper, 254x175 (185 X85) mm. écenv poae. (Kai) yepaia ondayyva n(até)pov bu(dv) Eic Plate 64 shows Euripides, Orestes 1-23, with the interp aK(0s) eGeKavae. (reat) nas) ann vO paxnaev. Eplors) 6 linear glosses and scholia (not as printed by E. Schwartz,

Arog n(aic) exatpatever Kara nat) po). Scholia in Euripidem, Berlin 1887). Plate 65 shows the beginning of a letter by Manuel Moschopoulos, ed. L. Levi, SIFC 10.1902.66f.

The book was written by several scribes, more than one

- 63 - of whom can be recognised in MS. Coislin 169. Plate 64

is identical with hand ‘f’ in Coislin 169 (see the description

Auct. E. 1.6, fol. 323°. by R. Devreesse, Le fonds Coislin, Paris 1947), and is

probably to be seen also in MS. Urbinas gr. 140. On the

Late 13th or early 14th c., Oriental paper, 326 x236 top margin of plate 64 are traces of a prayer, visible in full

(250X155) mm. on fol. 357, which reveals that the scribe’s name was John.

30

The scribe of plate 65 has not yet been identified else- are numbered on the bottom right-hand corner of the

where and his name is unknown. last page. These features recur in another manuscript W. S. Barrett, CQ 59.1965.53, 59; A. Turyn, The Byzan- written “ a scribe which I have examined, British tine manuscript tradition of the tragedies of Euripides, Urbana sen Md IALICY 5979-

1957, pp. 98, 102-18. Transcription of section 98 on fol. 39v: Transcription of plate 64, lines 1-4 of the scholia: oi tod X(pioto)d gidov navtac p(év) Gyan@at yyvnaiws. néboc éni ocrla)toc t6 tpatya Kai f Ovx 070 nave(cov) (0%) ayandve(a). at (6) TOD KOGLOV

nAnyyr iv Eiger tic éndnyy i pion. ovoé Tavera ayandaw, ovo b70 mav7{ cov) . ro1oste tivi: 6 dnd wer) Tob ayandve(ar). (Kai) oi u(év) Tob X(piato)b5 wéx pi téA(ovc) molobvtoc A€éy(etal) mpdypa’ (Kal) mpa€(ic): ) (nv) ov ; véxel(av) ths ayan(tc) diaty pobatv: oi (dé) to KOGpOD

Plate 65, lines 1-3: héxpic av aAAnioic d1a Tob KOcLOv Tp(oa)K pob owolv’ éy@ aogart(a)t(é) Bacisewv. Kai cvunabéotate Kai Kaptepikat(a)t(e) A€éyw 0€ tabta, mpay Hata brép Tov HAlov Eni coi Adunovta: (Kai) deikvbu(Ev)a NGOGLV. ETL TE TOD MAPOVTOG

npaypatos (Kai) THv GAAwY andvtwv, avayKaiov eival gnu - 67: (kai) cpu péepov, ToOIC

Canonici gr. 48 (S.C. 18501), fol. 369°. Middle to late 14th c., paper, 213 x132 (160 x85) mm.

- 66° Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Mepi tv Oovxvdidov id1mpdtov, ed. H. Usener-L. Radermacher, Dionysii Halicarnas-

Barocci 27 (S.C. 27), foll. 39%—40". sensis opuscula, vol. i, Leipzig 1899, pp. 421-2. Early 14th c., Oriental paper, 178 x122 (125 x75) mm. The paper is Western and has watermarks, not all of

. . which are identifiable, but one is like pattern no. 1132 in

Maximus the Confessor, Capita theologica, PG 90. V. A. MoSgin-S. M. Traljié, Vodeni znakovi, Belgrade

1072C-1073A, 1084A-108 5A. 1957, for which the date 1371 is given. I should be inThe scribe can be identified as Romanos chartophylax of clined to place the hand a few years earlier than this date.

Lamia, although there is no signature and the book is not J. E. Powell, CQ 32.1938.103-8, showed that this book listed as one of his products by M. Vogel-V. Gardthausen, was used as an exemplar by Michael Apostoles (on whom Die griechischen Schreiber des Mittelalters und der Renais- see the notes to plates 78-9 below). R. Barbour, Bodleian sance, Leipzig 1909, p. 394. A curious feature of the hand, Library Record 5.1954.9-13, discovered that it belonged which makes the identification all the more certain, is the to Ciriaco d’ Ancona.

use of a compendium that appears to be peculiar to this . — scribe (9 for av). I have found no trace of this compen- Item 46 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. dium elsewhere, except that G. F. Cereteli, op. cit., p. 12 Transcription of lines 1-3 of the text: n. 2, observes that it is reproduced by Montfaucon, Palaeographia graeca, p. 301 Il, from a page of ‘cod. Basil. Aovbotoc Appaico 7 gidtdtan yatper:— byd> pav

saec. x; this MS. I have not yet identified. bneAduBavov apKovvtws dednAwKéeval tov QovKv The quires are of ten leaves each for the most part (a few o1dov Xap aKtH pa, Ta weyiota (Kal) Kupiotata TOV

are of twelve leaves each) instead of the usual eight. They bnapzove(ov) 31

- 68 > subscription one might be tempted to assign the hand to a date earlier in the 14th century.

Barocci 156 (S.C. 156), fol. 160. Former owners of the book include Pico della Mirandola A.D. 1344, paper, 280 X195 (210 X145) mm. and Cardinal Domenico Grimani. Makarios Chrysokephalos, Catena on St. Matthew. Saftrey- Westerink, op. cit., pp. xcvii, cxi-cxvi, give a full account of the book. See also A. Turyn, op. cit.,

Apparently are Lj ; Le: as: 7 - vol.thei, author’s p. 221. autograph. Item $4 inThe thewatermarks 1966 exhibition catalogue.

similar to designs nos. 5790 and 6845 in Mo8in-Traljié, op. cit., for which the dates 1337 and 1334 are given. The Transcription of lines 1-3 of the text: scribe signed and dated his work; if he had not done so, the watermarks, as often happens, would have given us a dnacay péev tyy HAdt@voc piioco pilav) & giday époi

reliable indication of the date. pidtate

Tepikisic, kai thy apyny éxAduyal vopil@ Kata thy t(@v)

J. Armitage Robinson, CR 1.1887.281; E. A. De Stefani, K peitto SIFC 8.1900.494; A. D. Komines, Facsimiles of dated vov ayaboeidn BovbAnaiy, tov év abtoic KeK pvupévov vodv" Patmian codices, Athens 1970, pp. 34-5 and plate 31a; A. Turyn, Dated Greek manuscripts of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the libraries of Italy, Urbana 1972, vol. i,

pp. 158, 162, 164; vol. ii, plate 135.

Item 30 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue.

os ;

Transcription of lines 1-3: 70

Oleppintel T6 nepi tac yxeipac 6nAov’ GALA tH Kalpioov Canonici gr. 93 (S.C. 18546), fol. 179".

tod mpoonasal A.D. 1362, paper, 382 X285 (265 x180) mm. Bodder yvevat Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades 18.5—19.7.

OVTOC HNTETO’ KAT GLTOD TOK Gw@p(a)tos Tac NAnyas pEépaov' |

too Havdov THY MVKTIKYY; IE TAC CaTIAGS TOD avTIKEILEVOD Written by Manuel Tzykandyles in Mistra. The infor-

ide Ta mation does not come from the Oxford MS. itself, but K. Ziegler recognised that it is the other half of an incomplete manuscript in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS. D 538 inf., which is signed and dated by the scribe

- 69 - . . a.. , “hi

(K. Ziegler, Die Ueberlieferungsgeschichte der vergleichenden

Lebensbeschreibungen, Leipzig 1907, pp. 160-1).

A fine piece of calligraphy. The scribe is known from

Land gr. 18 (S.C. 704), fol. 2°. several other books, and for more information about him see A. Turyn, op. cit., vol. i, pp. 229-230.

A.D.391358, paper, (185 x10 . , 1-3: Paper, Oriental 240 168 (185 x105)240 mmx168 Transcription of lines Proclus, Platonic theology 1.1, ed. H. D. Saffrey-L. G.

Westerink, Paris 1968, pp. 5-6. Kai Opyvovg yoov' H uévtol TOV “Epud@y nepikonn, uid voKti

Signed and dated by Stelianos Choumnos, . ieee a , _ piacbévt(wv) ta Npdowna, NOAAOVSwritten KAi THVfor NEplppovovvt(@v) TOV TAEIGTOV AK PWT

John Contostephanos. This is one of the relatively rare ra tolaita dietdpaczey’ édéyOn sav) obv

examples of Oriental paper in use after the year 1340 (see 611 Kopiv01o1 614 tod Lvpaxovatovg anoixove dvtac oe the note on plate 51 above). Without the evidence of the émiayxéaeme éoopéev(nc) Npdc THV oiWWayv) 32

- 71 - - 73. on . “t of | | | |

Auct. T. infra 1.10, fol. 14”. Holkham gr. 88, fol. 37°.

For the main part of this manuscript see above on plates C. 1400-1430, paper, 258 192 (190 X90) mm.

44 and 45. In A.D. 1391 folios 1~14, containing a list o Aristophanes, Clouds 1-16, in the recension and with the

liturgical readings, were addedof byDemetrius Ioasaph, one Triclinius. of the ; ae ce notes most active members of the scriptorium in the monastery

tv ‘OdnyGv in Constantinople. For a list of books pro- See description by N. G. Wilson, CQ 12.1962.32-47. duced at this scriptorium see L. Politis, BZ 51.1958, The dating depends partly on the watermarks, which

especially pp. 30-1. resemble designs nos. 7680 and 7682 in C. M. Briquet,

oo, Les filigranes, Geneva 1907, reprinted with a new introThe hand ,is.not untypicalby of the period,Stevenson, and imitations ofAmsterdam J i s 2079 TEP 1968. uction Allan

it are sometimes found in the next century. The plate shows the end of the menologion and the colophon. M. Amanda Giannini, GRBS 12.1971.287-9, shows that

— the book almost belonged to the famous huTranscription of thecertainly colophon: ; da Verona. manist Guarino Geo) t6 d@pov K(ai) "Iwdoag névoc Transcription of the last scholium (to line 16):

apoyry KO

Etovg Cw p 0 (ivdixt1dvoc) 15 unvi iovohi@) KO’ nuép(a) FE

X(piat)é didov poyyjaavtl, tenv nodvod Bov émei n osdnvn év nuEepals eikoolevvéa tEAcital, Ta (O&) K TV éyybc, &0idovto 6& év ta TEAEL) THS GeANvNs Oi TOKOL, Ola TODTO TO EikaOaS EimEV. H TO EIKAOAS LN VOEl 01d Ova TA

eikoa(iv). GAAG Kai

Ola Ta EVECHS. tobtov yap Evexa NAnOvvtIK@c Eeipntal.: -

: 72 . Gr. misc. e.4 (S.C. 28998), fol. 3°.

15th c., paper, 216 x146 (133 X65) mm. - 74 Manuel Chrysoloras, Letter to Coluccio Salutati, ed. F. ; Novati, Epistolario di Coluccio Salutati, vol. iv, Rome 1905, Auct. T. 4.16 (S.C. 20534) (Misc. 254), fol. 16°.

pp- 333ff. Middle of the 15th c., parchment, 223 x154 (130X

MS. Naples II D.26. . B. L. Ullman, Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Rome 80) mm. 1955, pp. 279-83, proved that this manuscript is part of St. Basil, Homily 22, PG 31.580-1.

Supposed to be in the hand of Theodore Gaza, who lived

Item 43 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. in Italy 1442-75; see Vogel-Gardthausen, op. cit., p. 137,

Transcription of lines 1-4: . E. Lobel, The Greek manuscripts of Aristotle's Poetics, Ox-

ford 1933, p. 5. But the hand is more like that of an obdév oiuai nowiv Oavuactov, bnép épunveiac Italian than a Greek. In MS. Naples gr. 252 (III B.28) of

love ELAnviKdy Hv abtoc &édeoKac, ELAnvixyy Diogenes Laertius a quite different hand wrote at the top Mpoc GE Néunelv EIatOANV: abtO bnép Ob néuTE— of fol. 2" a note stating that the book belonged to TheoTAL, THV DMEP TOUTOL Mavtw@s anodoyiay Exel K(al) doros Antonios tévTacaiwv, and it may reasonably be 33

supposed that this latter hand is to be attributed to Theo- - 76° dore Gaza.

In lines 7 and 8 the position of the iota subscript is curious, Auct. T. 5.13 (S.C. 28494) (Misc. 275), fol. 288”. and one is tempted to infer from it that the scribe is Middle of the 15th c., paper, 220 x145 (170 x90) mm.

imitating a manuscript of the twelfth century, in which it . . would have been normal. a ‘

Gennadios Scholarios, translation of Petrus Hispanus, ed.

L. Petit-X. A. Siderides—M. Jugie, Oeuvres completes, vol.

On fol. 17 the MS. has the coat of arms of Giovanni Fer- viii, Paris 1928-36, pp. 283ff. rufini, a correspondent of Filelfo and privy counsellor of Supposed to be the autograph of the translator; see the Francesco Sforza in the years 1450-2. The book subse- edition, vol. viii, p. 283. The identification is accepted by quently belonged to Agostino Meschiati da Biella. K. G. Patrineles, “EAnvec xwdixoypd got tév ypdvev THC

Item 49 in the 1 966 exhibition catal ogue. AVAYEVVHOEWS , Athens 1961 (offprint from Enetn pic tod MEGAIMVIKOD ApxEtov 8/9.1958/9.63-125). An autograph

Transcription of lines 1-3: letter of Gennadios Scholarios is shown in P. F. De

. Cavalieri-H. Lietzmann, Specimina codicum graecorum, ENITHOES TA YELP TPOEAOMEVOD, Ov - Bonn, ed. 2, 1929, plate 59, and a comparison of that hand

deuia napaityalc £00 HT OO! TOAAG.- with the present plate suggests that the identification is

niagiw THY KOAGGLV broGzxEiV. lausi ; plausible but not absolutely certain.

Item 32 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue.

- 75 > — ne - . Transcription of the title and first two lines of text:

ék thC OladeKtIKhs tod paiatwpoc Wétpov tod “lonavod: Epunveia tod LyoA(a) p(iov)

Holkham St. 79; fol. 68°. OIGAEKTIKN EOTL TEXVN TEXVV KAI ENIOTHUN ENIOTHUDV. Middle of the 15th c., paper, 195 x140 (145 X85) mm. Mpos Ta anaacy TOV pEOOA@vV) apxac, Oddv Exovaa, Kai 01a TOUTO EV TH

Cardinal Bessarion, On the procession of the Holy Spirit, KTHoEel TOV émiatnudy Mpatny ed. PG 161.384A-Cc, also by E. Candal as vol. vii, part 2, of Concilium Florentinum, Documenta et scriptores, series B,

Rome 1961, pp. 64-5.

Text written by John Plusiadenos, with a correction in the right-hand margin by Bessarion himself.

See T. G. Leporace-E. Mioni, Cento codici bessarionei, - 77. denos are listed L.SEAN Politis, TBZ 51.1958.278. y 7»by OE Canonici gr. 7 oe (S.C. 18640), fol. 1°.

Venice 1968, pp. 64-6. Other MSS. written by PlusiaTranscription of lines 12-13 and the correction by Bessarion:

A.D. 1488, paper, 220 X150 (150 X80) mm.

5 ws ay no wee wy Aratus, Phaenomena 1-10.

Ex TOD Euob Anwetai K(ai) dvayyedéi byiv, tod yap

avayyed rely, Written and signed by John Rhosos in Venice.

aitiov dnAaodn, TO akovelv. GAAG pv Tob abtod \ avayyéA det, (Kai) J. Martin, Histoire du texte des Phénomenes d’ Arate, Paris TO &K TOD viod AauBav(elv) aitiov. 1956, p. 258. P. Canart, Scriptorium 17.1963.67, identifies

ate to ék t06 viod AapBavetv) (Kai) the other scribe in this MS. as John Plusiadenos. 34

Transcription of lines 1-3: of Constantinople in 1453, at the end of a lexicon of

"Ex Aldc apym@pec6a: tov, obdé mot dvdpec Edpev Vogel-Gardthausen, op. cit., p. 307.

Greek and Latin words in parallel columns.

dppntov, pectai dé Aioc Transcription: MGOQl LéV AYLI,

nacal 0 avOpan)wv ayopai pueotn 0& OaiAac0a, Miyafioc “AnoatédAns BuCdvtioc. peta THY THC Eavtod mat)pidos GAwaiy, mEvia avl@v, wiad® K(ai) tode to BiBAiov, é€éy payer:

. 78 .

Corpus Christi College, MS. 80, fol. sov. - 80 Second half of the 15th c., paper, 280x210 (210 x

145) mm. Barocci 76 (S.C. 76), fol. 436”.

Thucydides, History 2.102.5—3.3.1. Notes added by Constantine Lascaris (1434-1501) on a

. . blank page at the end of a miscellaneous collection of

Written by Michael Apostoles. texts.

The MS. is listed by K. G. Patrineles, op. cit., p. 70. See Transcription of lines 11-14 of the text (the last word in also J. E. Powell, CQ 32.1938.103-4 (and p. 108 ibidem 13 is uncertain): for the importance of Crete as a centre of copying at this date). For Michael Apostoles and his colleagues see the I poxdmoc Kaioapieic cig ta to Bedoapion important study of M. Wittek, Scriptorium 7.1953.290-7. k(ai) ‘lovotiavobd. évi ta Tlepaixa. ta “Itadixa On the problems of identifying the hand of Michael and Kata TotOwv ta Aifoxd. ta aixdixa (or ayyAiKa?)

his son Aristoboulos Apostolides see P. Canart, ‘Note sur émOvud tadta yey. l’écriture de Michel et Aristobule Apostolés et sur quelques manuscrits attribuables 4 ce dernier,’ printed as an In line 19 he has written rather carelessly the abbreviation

appendix to A. L. Di Lello-Finuoli, Un esemplare auto- for 6p00. grafo di Arsenio e il Florilegio di Stobeo, Rome 1970 (in fact

1972), pp. 87-101, with plates. Transcription of the first three lines:

WMC THC yc GAs abt@ - 81:

EKTELVE THV U(NTE) PA, UNN@ NO HAiov EWPATtoO’ UNHOE YH Hv.

bMewlacpevys. 60 aNop@yv WS padi, LOAIG KaTEVONnGE THV

Tpoaymaty Tabtny Laud gr. 7 (S.C. 793), foll. 78”-79".

Tob “Axed@on. (ai) 200K avt® ikavy dv kex@aGal diaita Late 1sth c., paper, 177 X112 (100 x 55) mm. TH GOpatl. ay obmEp

Pseudo-Diogenian, Proverbs 6.99 and 7.1-6, ed. E. L. von Leutsch-F. G. Schneidewin, Corpus paroemiogra-

;.

- 79 - phorum graecorum, vol. i, Géttingen 1839, pp. 286-7. Written by George Hermonymus of Sparta, a Greek

D’Orville 117 (S.C. 16995), P. 702. refugee who lived in Paris from 1478 and taught Greek to Subscription by Michael Apostoles, written after the fall Erasmus, Reuchlin and Budé. This book has Budé’s coat 35

, tulid til he b ied 1 x , , ge A.D. 1513).

of arms on the title page. The title, initials and the three K. G. Patrineles, op. cit., p. 68. The date results from the

dots at the end of each entry are in gold. fact that the author was known as Aristoboulos ApostoTranscription of the last complete entry on fol. 79°: es until he became a bishop in 15445 he died 1535:

The watermarks correspond to design no. 816 in Briquet

oi Kpfitec thy Ovaiav: éni TOV ( 513)

Tapagaovtwy tovs Ovovtag K(al) The MS. contains material that was deliberately omitted TEPIKONTOVT@V' TOLOUT yap TI from the edition of C. Walz, Stuttgart 1832.

ovvéBbn t® Ayapéuvovr mapa a

résv K pritcov Ovovtr: Transcription of lines 1-7 of the text: THC O apEetic idpdta Oeoi npo

nmapoiev Enka: aba vatol waK pos 0€ K(al) 6pOios

- 82 - oimoc én abtyy: K(ai) tTpNyvC TO Tpwtov’ émnv O EIS AK pov

Auct. P. 2.2, fol. 494°. iknal: pyidin 0 HNEITA TE Aél, YAAETH TEP EodaQ: -

r....

A.D. 1477-94, paper.

Sophocles, Trachiniae 1046-91.

Autograph of Angelo Poliziano. The text is entered on a - 24. blank leaf at the end of his copy of the Opera omnia of

id, P 1477. Ovid, Parma 1477 Holkham gr. 85, fol. 25°.

Item 55 in the 1966 exhibition catalogue. I. Maier, Les

——- ~ . Cc. A.D. 1500, paper, 222 X155 (150 X80) mm.

mianuscrits d’ Ange Politien, Geneva 1965, pp. 350-1, lists

this book but does not mention the Greek text on fol. Theognis, lines 1-17.

494 Written by the scholar and printer Zacharias Callierges. Transcription of lines 1-4 of the text: The hand was identified by R. Barbour, Bodleian Library Record 6.1960.608. There are other texts in this MS. in

& ToAda On Kai Oepud Kai Adyq@ KaKa different hands. In the part that concerns us the waterKai Yepoi Kai vatolal woxOnaac éya mark is similar to Briquet’s design no. 465 (A.D. 1490).

KoUmw tolobtov, ovt dKkoiticof»lines Ald a1-4: x i — Coe Transcription mpovdyKev, obd’ 0 atvyvosg Ebpvabeds épnoi.

® ava Antobtc vié Aldg téKoc. obnotE aeio Andopal apyoulEev)oc, obd anonavoeL(EV)Os. GAN Geil Np@tov té Kai batatov. év te pEGOIGI(V)

- 83 - aeia@ av O€ pEv KADO1 Kai €oOAG Oidov. Canonici gr. 30 (S.C. 18483), fol. 1°.

Cc. A.D. 1515-35, paper, 152 X105 (110 X65) mm. - 85 -

P P Gr. class. e. 17 (S.C. 31371), fol. 199”.

Arsenios archbishop of Monemvasia, part of the Violetum.

, A.D. 1521, 214 X153 (150(150 X90) Autograph of the author, identified as suchpaper, by S. P. 52% Pap 4153 x90)mm. Lambros, Néog ‘EAdqvopvijpov 19.1925.63—4; listed also by John Pediasimus, Technologia on the Aspis of Hesiod, ed. 36

T. Gaisford, Poetae minores graect, vol. i, Leipzig 1823, - 87 pp- 648-9.

Signed and dated by Jacob Rizzo of Solento, in the district Laud gr. 5 (S.C. 507), foll. 187-188". of Otranto. A very late specimen of the script associated Middle of the 16th c., parchment, 110 x75 (77 X47) mm.

with this region. On this scribe see Vogel-Gardthausen, h . op. cit., pp. 48 and 152. Demosthenes, On the freedom of the Rhodians.

In the middle of line 15 the technical term zapaxeipevoc Written Py ang’ Vergece, who was one of the leading ‘perfect’ is abbreviated as x(apa)x’. The abbreviation be- hie Tech Gree hie hed. ts in France from 1540 until longs to the class mentioned in the notes to plate 55. s eath in 1569. His hand was used as the basis for the design of the Garamond fount of Greek type. On the

Transcription of the colophon: practices of Vergéce and his colleagues in the same scriptorium see A. Dain, Bibliotheque d’humanisme et Renais-

Etehei@m&(n) n mapodaa deAt(oc) t(H¢) “Haiddov sance, 4.1937.395-410, especially 4o2ff.

*Aonid(oc) d(ia) yetpoc iepé(ac) “laxa@Bov iepé(wc) Ba a .

ttiota ‘PitCov ano nodes) Lodevtoic + étedeioH(n) Transcription of lines 1-5 of the text: (dé) év unv(i) OxtoBpi@. nuépa néunt(y), év Opa

6xkootn: ( = eikoat#) ét(dc) £ KO ivd(iKtI@vos) 1. Oecd yapic oipai dsiv buds @ dvd pes “AOnvaioi, epi tyhikovtwv) BovAgsvopevous, d1d0val Nappy -

aiav Exdot@ Tv ovuPovievdvt(wv). ya 6é obdenw@mnote nynaauny yaienov O1daéal

ta PéAtiota buds. WC yap eineiv anAdc,

. 86 . Laud gr. 6 (S.C. 506), pp. 28-9. Middle of the 16th c., paper, 131 X97 (105 X65) mm.

Gregory of Nyssa, Quod panis post consecrationem in "88°

. P _ , pr Lincoln College, MS. Gr. 32, fol. 1°.

corpus Dei Verbi transmutatur, ed. G. Morel, Aertovpyiat . Tv ayiov natépwv , Paris 1560, pp. 123-5.

Almost certainly written by the well-known forger Con- C. AD. 1560-80, Paper, 305 X210 (185 X105) mm. stantine Palaeocappa. A scribe with a very similar hand is Porphyry, Life of Plotinus.

distinguish between the two. ,

Diassorinos; somesigned, cases it but is practically impossible to , of Andreas .. ° P yumeinNot apparently in the hand Darmarios. P. Henry, s.j., Les manuscrits des Ennéades,

Transcription of page 28, lines 3-9: Brussels 1948, pp. 308-17, discusses the MS. in some detail, He does not identify the hand, but says that it is maonep oi OnAntn piov ov énipov— rather like Nikolaos Turrianos. He also thinks that along Anc Aapovtes, GAAw@ pappax@ with MS. Vat.gr.239 it served as printer’s copy for the

tHV pOoponotoy dvvapiv editio princeps of Plotinus in 1580. I have not noticed any éoBeoay, XPn oe Kad OnOl0~ of the characteristic printer's marks that one would tva Tob OdeOpton Kai v0 a expect to find if this view were correct. AEEITH plov Evtosg TOV aVO pa —

niveov yivecOal onAayyvov, Note that the scribe uses parentheses in lines 1-3 and 18; these signs were not known in Byzantine MSS. Transcription of lines 1-5 of the text: 37

[LAwtivos 6 ka nuds yeyovas piddao voc’ édKeEl Lev aig yovo Lév@ OT év oWpati &in’ GNO O& THS tolabtns d1abécEwc, or TE TEpi TOO yévouc abtob Ommyciobal nveizxEeto, OTE MEPI THV YOVEOY,

ovte NEpi THS R(at)pidos Cwypa gov dé avaczéoOal 7 nmiaatob toaob Tov amnciov, Wate Kai Aéyerv Mpoc “Apédiov b&b Mevoy EikOva

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1. MS. Gr. theol. ¢.8. (p), verso. 31. MS. Auct. T.2.2, fol. 172. 2. MS. Gr. bibl. g-2 (p), recto. 32. MS. Auct. T.2.2, fol. 173". 3. MS. Gr. bibl. g-3 (p), recto. 33. MS. Auct. V.1.51, fol. 162”. 4. MS. Laud gr. 35, fol. 219". 34. MS. Barocci 182, fol.:273”.

5. MS. Gr. liturg. c.3 (p). 35. MS. Auct. T.4.13, fol. 42”. 6. MS. Gr. liturg. c.1, recto. 36. Lincoln College, MS. Gr. 14, fol. 3”. 7. MS. Auct. T. infra Lt, fol. gq’. 37. MS. Cromwell 9, page 72.

8. MS. Gr. bibl. e.1, fol. 6°. 38. MS. Cromwell 9, page 237. 9. MS. Gr. class. a.6 (p), recto. 39. MS. Cromwell g, page 631. 10. MS. Laud gr, 35, fol. 227°. 40. MS. Auct. T.2.7, fol. 115°. 11. MS. Barocci 26, fol. 252”. 41. MS. Auct. T.2.7, fol. 334’. 12. Corpus Christi College, MS. 108, fol. 1787. 42. Corpus Christi College, MS. 25, fol. 37.

13. MS. D’Orville 301, fol. 268". 43. MS. Rawlinson G. 199, fol. 1°. 14. MS. E. D. Clarke 39, fol. 368”. 44. MS. Auct. T. infra |.10, fol. 17°. 15. MS. Barocci 217, fol. 47”. 45. MS. Auct. T. infra l.10, fol. 424”.

16. MS. Barocci 235, fol. 20”. 46. MS. Auct. T.1.6, fol. 53°. 17, Christ Church, MS. Wake 5, fol. 12". 47. MS. Auct. T.1.6, fol. 55”.

18. MS. Laud gr. 39, fol. 30°. 48. MS. Auct. T.1.6, fol. 185”. 19. MS. Laud gr. 39, fol. 162’. 49. MS. Auct. E.1.6, fol. 2”. 20. MS. Barocci 50, fol. 274’. 50. MS. E. D. Clarke, fol. 113°. 21. MS. Barocci 50, fol. 322". 51. MS. Auct. E.4.24, fol. 9". 22. MS. E. D. Clarke 12, fol. 66°. 52. MS. Barocci 118, fol. 37’. 23. MS. E. D. Clarke 12, fol. 210". 53. MS. Barocci 118, fol. 200°. 24. MS. Auct. D.4.1, fol. 146°. 54. MS. Barocci 177, fol. 24°.

25. MS. Laud gr. 75, fol. 41’. 55. MS. Canonici gr. 65, fol. 17. 26. MS. Laud gr. 75, fol. 319". 56. MS. Barocci 133, fol. 42’. 27. MS. Auct. T. infra 1.4, fol. 79’. 57. MS. Barocci 133, fol. 43°. 28. MS. Rawlinson G. 156, fol. 1°. 58. MS. Barocci 131, fol. 82”. 29. Christ Church, MS. Wake 2, fol. 238°. 59. MS. Barocci 131, fol. 107".

30. MS. Holkham gr. 6, fol. 71. 60. MS. Barocci 131, fol. 244".

61. MS. Barocci 131, fol. 452”. 75. MS. Holkham gr. 79, fol. 68°. 62. MS. Barocci 131, fol. 505”. 76. MS. Auct. T.5.13, fol. 288°. 63. MS. Auct. E.1.6, fol. 323". 77. MS. Canonici gr. 7, fol. 1°. 64. MS. Barocci 120, fol. 32°. 78. Corpus Christi College, MS. 80, fol. 50”. 65. MS. Barocci 120, fol. 110. 79. MS. D’Orville 117, page 702. 66. MS. Barocci 27, foll. 39’—40". 80. MS. Barocci 76, fol. 436’. 67. MS. Canonici gr. 48, fol. 369”. 81. MS. Laud gr. 7, foll. 78’—79".

68. MS. Barocci 156, fol. 160. 82. Auct. P.2.2, fol. 494". 6g. MS. Laud gr. 18, fol. 2”. 83. MS. Canonici gr. 30, fol. 1°. 70. MS. Canonici gr. 93, fol. 179". 84. MS. Holkham gr. 85, fol. 25°. a1. MS. Auct. T. infra l.10, fol. 14”. 85. MS. Gr. class, e.17, fol. 199”.

72. MS. Gr. misc. e.4, fol. 3°. 86. MS. Laud gr. 6, pages 28-0. 73. MS. Holkham gr. 88, fol. 37”. 87. MS. Laud gr. 5, foll. 187’—188". 74. MS. Auct. T.4.16, fol. 16”. | 88. Lincoln College, MS. Gr. 32, fol. 1”.

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