Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 109
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 11845
Contents
Language(s): Greek
See S. Eustratiades and Monachus Spyridon, Μνημεῖα Ἁγιολογικά: Εἱρμολόγιον, Chennevières-sur-Marne 1932, pp. 1-259 (TLG 5361.004)
f. 86v is blank
The section ends with the Creed, incomplete; the text is ended by the same hand on f. 118r
The first is an excerpt from a poem by Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus , TLG 3236.006, ed. M. Jugie, 'Poésies rhythmiques de Nicéphore Calliste Xanthopoulos', in: Byzantion 5, 1929/30, pp. 362-390: 384 s. 10
The final rubric ends incomplete
Χ.Κ. Δουκάκης, Μέγας συναξαριστής, 9, Εν Αθήναις 1894, p. 97 ll. 1-3
On the lists of offices see J. Darrouzès, Recherches sur les ΟΦΦΙΚΙΑ de l'église byzantine, Paris 1970
The first part of the title of the first recipe was retraced in red by another hand, which transformed the correct word δυσουρία in λυσουρίαν
The recipes are in modern Greek
Middle-Byzantine melodic notation
Physical Description
Modern foliation in pencil, in Arabic numerals, in the upper margin, right, only on some leaves; between the leaves numbered 11 and 13, there are two unnumbered leaves (here [12], [12a]); between the leaves numbered 13 and 21, there are only 6 leaves: [i]-ii + 1-2, [3]-[4], 5, [6]-[10], 11, [12], [12a], 13, [14]-[19], 21, [22]-[30], 31, [32]-[40], 41, [42]-[50], 51, [52]-[60], 61, [62]-[70], 71, [72]-[80], 81, [82]-[84], 85-87, [88]-[90], 91-92, [93], 94, [95]-[98], 99, [100], 101, [102]-[110], 111, [112]-[117], 118-119, [120], 121, [122]-[126], 127, [128], 129, [130], 131, [132], 133, [134] + [iii]-[iv].
Collation
The leaves have been sewn very tightly and the quires are not numbered, therefore it was not possible to ascertain the quire structure.
Condition
Layout
Irregular throughout. A single column of 9-12 lines. ca. 65-75 × ca. 25-45 mm.
Hand(s)
ff. 1r-86r Hand A: minuscule script, upright, regular in size, which can be linked with the traditional group of late Greek minuscule (see P. Eleuteri, P. Canart, Scrittura greca nell'Umanesimo italiano, Milano 1991).
The text is written in black ink, titles and initials in red.
ff. 87r-91v, 94r-[98]v, 101r-[110]r, 111r-[117]v, 119r-127r l. 7, 127v-[128]v Hand B: minuscule script, upright, characterized by the bigger size of some letters, such as "tall" gamma, majuscule epsilon, zeta, rounded sigma.
The text is written in black ink, titles and initials in red.
ff. 92r-[93]v Hand C: minuscule script, slightly slanting to the right , characterized by the tendency to prolong oblique strokes between the lines.
The text is written in black ink.
ff. 99r-[100]v, [110]v, 118r-118v, 127r ll. 8-12, 131-[132]r, 133r, 133v (lower part) Hand D: minuscule script, slightly slanting to the right, datable in the 17th c.
The text is written in black-grey ink.
ff. 129r-[130]v Hand E: minuscule script, uprιght, datable possibly to the 17th c.
The text is written in black-grey ink.
f. ii recto Hand G: minuscule script, regular, upright, probably datable to the 17th c.
Black-grey ink.
f. [132]v Middle-Byzantine melodic notation
Decoration
On ff. 1r-[47]v, [54]r-[85]v the text is comprised in a frame in red ink.
On ff. 1r, f. [33]r there are rectangular headpieces in red ink filled with vine scrolls. On f. 87r, by hand B, there is a small headpiece in black and red ink, formed by a series of interlaced rhombuses forming a dragon (?); the execution is not accurate. On f. 101r there is a headpiece in red ink, formed by an interlaced geometrical motif.
Friezes in red ink are present throughout the leaves copied by hand A:
- ff. [4]v, [26]r, f. [37]v rope frieze
- ff. [9]v, [44]v, [47]v, [54]r vine scroll frieze
- ff. [12a]v, [16]v, 21r, 41v linear frieze.
Initials in ekthesis in red ink, decorated with a vegetal motif, see e.g. f. 1r.
Additions
On the left pastedown , on the College bookplate, are written, in pencil, a previous shelfmark, ‘ MSS I.4.34’, and the current one, in a rhombus, ‘ 109’.
On f. [i] verso there is a pen trial in Greek.
On f. ii recto a later hand wrote a passage from Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus ' De virtutibus et vitiis. ed. T. Büttner-Wobst, A.G. Roos, Excerpta historica iussu imp. Constantini Porphyrogeniti confecta, 2: Excerpta de virtutibus et vitiis, Berlin 1906, p. 6 ll. 3-12 (the text cites a passage from the first book of Flavius Josephus ' The Antiquities of the Jews, ed. B. Niese, Flavii Iosephi opera, 1, Berlin 1887, book 1, 70-71: the final word, Συριάδα, although with a iotacism error, derives more likely from the variant Σιριάδα found in De virtutibus et vitiis., than from the variant Σειρίδα found in Flavius Josephus' text)
On f. ii verso are written another shelfmark, erased, ‘ I.2.34’, and, below, the more recent one, ‘ MSS. I-4-34’.
In the right margin of f. 1r is written the previous shelfmark,
‘1.5
4. 34’.
On f. 86r, after the end of the text, a note in Greek, written in black ink, has been erased.
On f. [110]v hand D wrote two small texts:
- a stanza from a poem by Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus (ca. 1256-ca. 1335) ( M. Jugie, 'Poésies rhythmiques de Nicéphore Calliste Xanthopoulos', in: Byzantion 5, (1929/30), pp. 362-390: poem 8, stanza 10; TLG 3236.006), inc. Κῆπε καὶ παράδεισε καὶ πηγή
- another brief text, inc. Χαῖρε ὁ παράδισος[sic]· ὁ τερπνός· ὦ ζωῆς τὸ ξύλον.
On ff. 133r-133v there are three inscriptions by hand D mentioning a metropolitan city in Thessaly. In the upper part of f. 133v there is a note by a hand which does not appear in the rest of the manuscript, mentioning the birth of a relative in the year 1592 (see also Summary); The note was retraced in red ink by another hand, someone who probably could not read or understand well what was written and made some changes, making it hard to read the original note now: Αἰ γενίθιν τὸ ἐγγόνι μου ἠ κατα|κουζινὶ (?) μινὶ μαίωι 1594 | 7102 ἰνδικτιῶνος ζ΄. In his catalogue, James read the date as 1694, and used it to date the whole manuscript. The year is, however, 1594: the date is also given in the Era of the World (in Arabic numerals) as 7102, corresponding to 1594 CE. Given the content of the note, this date can be used only as a terminus post quem for the note itself, and probably for the intervention of hand D, which must have taken place after the note had been already written on the leaf.
Only a strip of paper remains of f. [134]: on it there are the remains of some notes in Greek, similar to the ones on f. 133r: the first, starting as the first note on f. 133v, ἐγενίθ..., mentions the date of 7103 anno mundi. Beneath there was another invocation by hand D. Traces of script are also present on [134]v.
Binding
Early modern western binding, leather cover over pulpboards. Gold tooling on both covers, with a double-line frame with a laurel wreath in the centre. Gold tooled horizontal lines on the spine, where 4 paper labels with the previous shelfmark are pasted, ‘MSS’ ‘1’ ‘ … ’ ‘ 34’. Marbled paper has been pasted on both pastedowns. The edges are coloured in blue. 105 × 75 × 27 mm.
The leather is worn near the edges and near the attachments with the boards.
History
The manuscript is not dated. On the basis of the scripts, it can be dated possibly in the 16th century, probably before 1594.
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript was donated by the Archbishop of Canterbury William Sancroft (1617-1693) . His name is written on the upper right corner of f. 1r. On the left pastedown is pasted the Emmanuel College bookplate.
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. (Cambridge, University Press, 1904)
Some Byzantine musical manuscripts at Cambridge Annual of the British School at Athens, Tillyard, H. J. W. (23, 194-205, 1918)
Ta cheirographa byzantines mousikes Anglia = The manuscripts of Byzantine music: England, Giannopoulos, Emmanouil St. (Athens, Institute of Byzantine Musicology, 2008)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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