Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.9
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77983
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Language(s): Greek
The transcription portrays the original orthography
Under the note there are two words written in monocondyle, probably a name, difficult to decipher, which maybe could be read as: Εὐγένιος(?) ἐπίσκοπος(?) (?)
Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
f. [1]v Hand A: the possession note was written in black ink by a hand that can be possibly placed in the 15th or 16th century. The script is upright, the letters are divided, uprights tends to be extended below the line; the forms can be reconducted to the galaxy of scripts deriving from the minuscule τῶν Ὁδηγῶν, widespread in the Eastern regions after the fall of Byzantium.
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History
Provenance and Acquisition
It was owned by the Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874) .
In 1876, the fragment was bought by Cambridge University Library from Tischendorf's executors.
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Bibliography
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Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts
in the University Library, Cambridge Scriptorium, Easterling, Patricia
E. (16, 2, 302-323, 1962)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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