Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 59
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 11842
Contents
Language(s): Greek
The manuscript contains the Dioptra in the Y-version ( E. Afentoulidou-Leitgeb, 'Die "Dioptra" des Philippos Monotropos und ihr Kontext. Ein Beitrag zur Rezeptionsgeschichte', Byzantion 77, (2007), 9-31 (p. 31)), with a series of annexed texts (see Afentoulidou-Leitgeb and, for a list of the texts in Emmanuel MS 59, p. 31)
TLG 4472.001
The text of the Klauthmoi is preceded on f. 1r ll. 1-13 by a table of contents written in red ink, comprising also the first two lines of the text ( Les pleurs de Philippe. Poëme en vers politiques de Philippe le Solitaire, ed. by E. Auvry (Paris, 1875), p. 18; see also S. Lavriotes, Ἡ Διόπτρα, in: Ὁ Ἄθως (1920), 1 [repr. in G.M. Prochorov, A.B. Bil’djug, H. Miklas, "Dioptra" Filippa Monotropa. Antropologičeskaja enciklopedija pravoslavnogo srednevekov’ja (Moscow, 2008), pp. 331-504], where this text is indicated as logos 5 of the Dioptra)
From this manuscript was printed an edition of the text of the Klauthmoi: E.S. Shuckburgh, The Soul and the Body. A Medieval Greek Poem printed for the first time from a ms. in the Emmanuel College Library (Cambridge, 1894)
The text is preceded by a list of the chapters on f. 8r ll. 1-26, tit. Ἃ δὲ ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ λόγῳ, σαφὲς ἡ ἀπόδειξης[sic] τούτων
The book is numbered 2 in the manuscript; the beginning is partially different from the printed text; after f. 34r l. 29 ( Lavriotes 2008, p. 366 v. 1568) the text does not correspond to the printed edition
In the lower margin the scribe wrote in red ink the number of verses
The text is preceded by a list of the chapters on ff. 34v l. 19-35v l. 10, tit. Τάδε ἔστιν ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ λόγῳ
Leaves are now in disorder; the text follows this sequence: ff. 34v-36v, 40r-40v, 48r-48v, 41r-43v, 45r-45v, 44r-44v, 46r-47v, 49r-64v, 38r-39v, 65r; the text ends, before the closing formula on f. 65r l. 1, at f. 39v l. 28 at Lavriotes 2008, p. 415, v. 1562
Some passages present in the printed edition are omitted in the mauscript, as, Lavriotes (2008), p. 408 v. 1529-414
The logos is numbered 3 in the manuscript
The text is preceded by a list of the chapters on f. 65r ll. 2-20, tit. Ὁ λόγος νῦν ὁ τέταρτος ἐνταῦθα νῦν παρέστι
Leaves are now in disorder; the text follows this order: ff. 65r-70v, 37r-37v, 71r-89r
The book is numbered 4 in the manuscript
The text is preceded by a list of the chapters on ff. 89r l. 10-89v l. 17, tit. Τάδε ἐστὶ καὶ ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ λὀγῳ
The text does not always correspond to the printed one, there are passages omitted, as Lavriotes 2008, pp. 483 l, 18-485 l. 11, and pp. 487-491 (ch. 10), and the order of some chapters is different; after f. 137r l. 19 ( Lavriotes 2008, p. 496, the end of logos 4 in the printed edition), texts follow, whithout interruption, which are not present in the printed edition, but which recur in the manuscripts of the Dioptra (on this matter see Afentoulidou-Leitgeb 2007):
- ff. 137r l. 19-138r l. 6, inc. Πέντε γὰρ εἰσὶν ἐργασίαι δι' ὧν ο θεὸς θεραπεύεται (see Afentoulidou-Leitgeb 2007, p. 16)
- f. 138r ll. 6-14, inc. Τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου. Παντὶ τῷ αἰτοῦντι σε δίδου
- ff. 138r l. 14-139v l. 6, inc. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Οὐ δύνασε[sic] νηστεῦσαι
- ff. 139v l. 7-140v l. 10, inc. Ἐκ τῶν ἀσκητικῶν τοῦ μεγάλου Βασιλείου. Τοῖς μὲν οὖν συγκενεῦσιν[sic]
- f. 140v ll. 10-26, inc. Ἐκ τοῦ Κλίμακος περὶ τὴν ἄσκησιν ἀθετῶν
- ff. 140v l. 27-153v l. 18, inc. Στίχοι ἐπὶ τελευτὴν θρηνητικοί, this is a still umpublished text by Philippos Monotropos, see Afentoulidou-Leitgeb (2007), p. 23 and note 33)
The book is numbered 5 in the manuscript
Ιn the manuscript the text is attributed to John Chrysostom (d. 407) , but it is spurious: the author is Leontius, Presbyter of Constantinople
The text ends imperfectly due to the loss of leaves, at P. Allen, C. Datema, Leontii presbyteri Constantinopolitani homiliae (Turnhout, 1987), p. 176 l. 269
TLG 2914.003; CPG 7898 and 4643
Physical Description
Foliation in Arabic numerals, in ink, in the upper margin, right, from 1 to 158; where the numbers have been lost to trimming, modern additions have been written in pencil; three later endleaves at the beginning have been foliated in pencil from i to iii, and an endleaf at the end of the manuscript has been numbered in pencil as 159; six leaves which came with the restoration of the binding, are unnumbered (ff. [a]-[f]): [a]-[c] + i-iii + 1-159 + [d]-[f].
Collation
The leaves, particularly those at the end of the manuscript, have been restored with paper strips pasted along the inner part, near the gutter, therefore it is hard to reconstruct the original collation, considering also that the quires do not show original signatures; leaves 32-71 are today out of order, testifying that the original bifolia and quires are not in their original state; the collation proposed by M.R. James in his catalogue (18-1, 28-188, 196, 206, 214) does not consider this and does not always match with the position of the watermark. The quires have been sewn very tightly, therefore it is not possible to see clearly the present arrangement of the quires.
The quires have been numbered from 1 to 21 in pencil, in the lower margin, right; this numbering corresponds to the collation proposed by James in the catalogue, but it does not represent the original structure of the manuscript.Condition
Layout
A single column of 28-30 lines, mostly 28. ca. 155 × ca. 95 mm.
Hand(s)
ff. 1r-158v Hand A: the text was written entirely in a minuscule script, vertical, regular in size, which can be compared to the scripts pertaining to the so-called Metochitesstil.
The text is written in black ink, titles and initials in red.
Decoration
Friezes in red and black ink are present throughout the manuscript, at the beginning of text and books:
- f. 1r plaited ornament in red ink
- f. 8r a ribbon curled around a rod in red ink
- ff. 34v, 65r rectangular friezes filled with various ornaments
- ff. 89r, 153v rope ornament on a black background
- f. 136r udulated linear frieze in black ink with clovers at both ends coloured in red
Thick minor initials in red ink are present throughout, at the beginning of each verse of the poem (see e.g. ff. 54v-55r).
Additions
On the left pastedown are written the present and previous shelfmarks in pencil ‘ MS 59 (I.3.6)’.
On the later endleaves (17th/18th. century) ff. i recto, iii recto, iii verso, there are notes by a later hand; on f. i there are notes in Latin about Philippos Monotropos and his work: since Bernard de Monrfaucon's Palaeographia Graeca of 1708 is mentioned, this date constitutes a terminus post quem for this intervention. On ff. iii recto-iii verso there is a transcription of ff. 1r-1v by a western European hand; in the upper margin, by a different hand than the one which wrote the notes in Latin on f. i recto, is written the name of ‘ Hugo Broughton D.’ (see History).
On f. 159r a later hand (16th c.?) wrote a list of titles numbered from α΄ (1) to κη΄ (28). On f. 159v there are random notes in Greek ( Probationes calami) and a note in Hebrew.
Binding
Early modern western binding, leather cover over couched-laminate boards. Blind tooling on both covers, with a bird (eagle?) in the centre and a decorated rectangular frame around it. The stamp is very similar to one used in Cambridge in the early 17th century (see Bindings in Cambridge Libraries, with notes by G.D. Hobson, based on researches by N.F. Barwell, H.M. Davies, C. E. Sayle (Cambridge, 1929), plate XLI, tool no. 39). Blind tooling on the edges. 205 × 140 × 48 mm.
Rebacked. The manuscript is preserved in a box with three envelopes containing three labels, originally pasted on the spine, with the previous shelfmark, ‘ MSS’, ‘ 1’, ‘ 3’, ‘ 6’; tanned leather sewing supports; a tanned leather endcap.
History
The manuscript was probably copied in the 14th century; since the paper is a type which was used c. 1350-1382, the production of the manuscript can be placed in the second half of the century.
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript was donated by Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) , divine and Hebraist who studied in Cambridge and was fellow of St John's College and Christ's College, as written in a note in the upper margin of f. iii recto, ‘ Hugo Broughton donavit ’. On f. [a] recto is pasted the Emmanuel College bookplate.
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Bibliography
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The soul and the body. A
mediaeval Greek poem printed for the first time
from a MS. in the Emmanuel College library Emmanuel College Magazine, Shuckburgh, E.S. (5, 1894)
E. S. Shuckburgh, The soul and
the body Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Krumbacher, K. (4, 1, 172-173, 1895)
The Western manuscripts in the
library of Emmanuel College: a descriptive
catalogue, James, M.R. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1904)
Codices Chrysostomici Graeci I
Codices Britanniae et Hiberniae, Aubineau, Michel (Paris, CNRS éditions, 1968)
Leontii Presbyteri
Constantinopolitani Homiliae Corpus Christianorum. Series
Graeca, Datema, C.Allen, P. (Turnhout, Brepols, 1987)
Die "Dioptra" des Philippos
Monotropos und ihr Kontext. Ein Beitrag zur
Rezeptionsgeschichte Byzantion, Afentoulidou-Leitgeb, E. (77, 9-31, 2007)
Codices Chrysostomici Graeci
VIII: I: Codices Ancyrae et Constantinopolis II:
Addenda et Corrigenda ad volumina I-IV, Barone, F. P.Voicu, S. J. (Paris, CNRS éditions, 2018)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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