Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 12
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 11837
Contents
Language(s): Greek
- Hom. 1: ff. 1r-7r (from PG 57, col. 18 line 34)
- Hom. 2: ff. 7r-[16]v
- Hom. 3: ff. [16]v-25r
- Hom. 4 with lacuna and a misplaced folio: ff. 25r-27v PG 57, col. 39-42 line 17 (παρέσεσθαι ἔφησεν· ὃν ὁ προφή[της); ff. 28r-28v PG 57, 48 line 16 (ψυχῆς εἶναι γνώρημα) - 49 line 6 (ἑνὶ τούτων τῶν ἐλαττω[μάτων); ff. [29]r-[34]v PG 57, 43 line 10 (μόνον· τὸ δὲ πῶς ἐκ πν(εύματο)ς) - 48 line 16 (τὰ δὲ ἡμέτερα ἀπὸ τῆς); ff. 35r-[41]v PG 57, 49 line 6 (ἐλαττω]μάτων κατέχεται· σὺ δὲ ὁμοῦ συμφορήσας) - col. 54
- Hom. 5: ff. [42]r-[50]r
- Hom. 6: ff. [50]r-[62]r
- Hom. 7, a folio is misplaced: ff. [63]r-[66]v PG 57, col. 73-76 line 37 (ἀπαγγείλατέ μοι, ὅπως κἀγὼ); ff. [68]r-[73]v PG 57, 77 line 31 (αὐτὸ μείζονος δυνάμεως) - col. 81; ff. [74]r-[74]v PG 57, 76 line 37 (ἐλθὼν προσκυνήσω αὐτω) - 77 line 31 (ἔστη πάλιν ὁ ἀστήρ· ὅπερ καὶ)
- Hom. 8, a folio is misplaced: ff. 67r-67v PG 57, col. 82 line 52 (κατὰ πρόνοιάν τινα θείαν) - 83 line 47 (σώζονται ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὸ παιδίον, ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν εἰς); f. [73]v PG 57, 81 lines 46-52 (ἔτυχε ταῦτα ἐγίνετο, ἀλλὰ); ff. 75r-[81]v PG 57, 83 line 47 (Περσίδα, τὸ δὲ εἰς Αἴγυπτον) - col. 90;
- Hom. 9: ff. [82]v-[92]v
- Hom. 10: ff. [92]v-[103]r
- Hom. 11: ff. [103]v-[116]r
- Hom. 12: ff. [116]r-[123]v
- Hom. 13: ff. [124]r-[135]r
- Hom. 14: ff. [135]v-[142]r
- Hom. 15: ff. [142]v-[163]r
- Hom. 16: ff. [163]v-[176]v (ends at PG 57, col. 249 line 17; continues on Emmanuel MS 13)
PG 57, 18-249
CPG 4424
TLG 2062.152
Physical Description
Collation
The manuscript consists of 23 quires, of which one is a ternion and the rest are quaternia.
- Quire 18-5 ff. 1-[3] The first five folios have been lost, with loss of text
- Quires 2-48 ff. 4-27
- Quire 58-1 ff. 28-[34] The first folio has been lost, with loss of text; the present first folio was originally the last.
- Quires 6-198 ff. 35-[146]
- Quire 206 ff. 147-[152]
- Quires 21-238 ff. 153-[176]
Signatures in Greek numerals in light-brown ink on first recto and last verso, lower margin, from quire 2 (f. 4r), from βʹ to κγʹ. It is missing on quire 5.
Consistent signatures in Greek numerals in brown ink (in all likelihood prior to the other one) survive on last verso, lower internal corner, from quire 11 (f. [82]v).
Modern signatures in Greek numerals in pencil on first recto from quire 2. Due to the loss of and misplacing of folios, it is present on ff. 28v, [29]r and [34]r.
Condition
Layout
Two columns of 30 lines. 287 × 185 mm. Pricking does not survive. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 5, type Leroy 44C2 . Text hangs from the lines.
Hand(s)
The manuscript is written in a mixed minuscule script, upright or slanting slightly to the right, in dark brown ink, pending from the ruling line. There is only moderate variation in letter size. Tails are occasionally flourished into the lower margins.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscription usually appear only at the ends of lines. Breathings are round and mute iota is adscript.
Punctuation used includes the middle and upper point and full stop.
Decoration
Headpieces outlined in red ink at the beginning of each homily, from f. 7r.
Major decorated initials of homilies in red ink from f. 7r.
Minor initials in red ink throughout the manuscript.
Additions
Two notes on f. [iii] verso: A reference to the edition by Henry Savile, Sancti Ioannis Chrysostomi opera Graece, Eton College, 1612-13: ‘Vide Editionem Sancti Chrysostomi Editionis Savilianae Etonae impressam anno MDCXII. Vol. 2. p. 4 l. 20 τῶν λεγομένων ἦσαν κ.τ.λ. Hic codex continet ultimam partem primae Homiliae Homil. 2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.’
The second note by Samuel Parr: ‘This MS formerly belonged to the learned Adam Askew, MD, and after his death came into the possession of his eldest son, Adam Askew, by whom it was given to me in the year, 1790, in Testimony of his regard for me, as his schoolmaster at Stanmore, Middlesex, and as the intimate Friend of his deceased Father. With sincere and great pleasure I present it to the Library of Emmanuel College, as a mark of my respect for the Master and Fellows of the Society in which I had the honour to be educated; and the Manuscript, I suppose, will be the more acceptable to them, as having once been the property of Dr Askew, and his son, who were Members of the same College, and who, like myself, took a lively interest in its Prosperity arid its Fame. Samuel Parr. Halton Parsonage, Warwickshire, August 19th 1814’. Adam Askew, MD, is actually Anthony Askew (see Stubbings (1976), p. 318).
A note of provenance on lower margin of f. 1r: ‘απο το μοναστηρι του κασταμονητη’.
Binding
18th-century full leather binding over millboards, sewn with cord on single raised supports, boards attached with laced-in slips Separate-sewn endbands, the outermost and the pastedowns of marbled paper. Hatched leather on the boards, with decorative gold tooling on boards and spine. The title ‘Chrysostomi Homiliae Vol. I. MS’ is tooled in gold on black labels on the spine, and the classmark appears on patches.
365 × 285 × 80 mm.
The headband is almost fully detached and both endcaps are damaged. The left outer joint is partially split at the tail. The leather covering has become flaky.
Accompanying Material
Description slip from F. Field's edition (1839) pasted on f. [i] verso.
Between f. [vi] verso and the right cover, inner there is a card with the classmark on one side and the following text on the other: ‘απο το μοναστηρι του κασταμονητη From the monastery of Kastamoniti (on Mt Athos)’.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript comes from the Monastery of Kastamoniti of Mount Athos. The manuscript was bought by Anthony Askew (1722-1774) , physician and book collector, in his travel to the Mt Athos.
After Askew's death, the manuscripts were sold by G. Leigh and J. Sotheby in the auction of his library in 1785 (Lot. n. 612), but his son, Adam Askew (1752-1844) , was able to get possession of them again and gave them to Samuel Parr (1747-1825) .
Presented to Emmanuel College by Samuel Parr (1747-1825) , 1814 (see f. [iii] verso).
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Bibliography
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The Western manuscripts in the library of Emmanuel College : a descriptive catalogue, James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1904)
Codices Chrysostomici Graeci I Codices Britanniae et Hiberniae, Aubineau, Michel (Paris, CNRS éditions, 1968)
A brief history of Emmanuel College Library, Stubbings, Frank H (Cambridge, Emmanuel College Library, 1981)
From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts Through the looking glass:
Byzantium through British eyes. Papers from the twenty-ninth Spring Symposium
of Byzantine Studies, London, March 1995 Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
publications, Easterling, Patricia E. (Aldershot, 107-120, Ashgate, 2000)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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