Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.10
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77984
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Defective at the beginning
The initial letters of these hymns are the last letters of an acrostic, reading ‘ρ.ντε δος μοτ την .υσιν’, which can be reconstructed as part of words correctly reading ‘Ἄχραντε δός μοι τὴν λύσιν’, but with tau as the eleventh letter rather than the correct iota
The initial letters of these hymns form an acrostic, which should read ‘Τρέφον τὸ πένθος εἰς χαράν μοι παρθένε’; however, the fourth hymn in fact begins with the letter lambda rather than phi.
Defective at the end
The initial letters of these hymns are the first 21 letters of an acrostic, reading ‘Δέσποινά μου ῥῦσαί με παν’, the full text of which is given in the heading as ‘Δέσποινά μου ῥῦσαί με παντοίας βλάβης’.
Physical Description
Collation
This fragment consists of 2 unbound quires, both quaternia.
- Quire 18-1 ff. 1-7 The first folio has been lost, with loss of text
- Quire 28 ff. 8-15
Condition
Layout
A single column of 23 lines. 120 × 85 mm.
Hand(s)
The text was copied in mixed minuscule script, slanting slightly to the right, in brown ink, with moderate variation in letter size and some flourishing of tails into the margin.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings appear throughout the line. Breathings are round and mute iota is absent, or subscript. There is decorative use of the double dot, and accentuation of all nomina sacra . Accents are sometimes joined to letters and breathings.
The modern eta and modern nu are present, and there are inclusions of letters within omicron.
Punctuation used includes the upper and middle points and full stop.
Headings are written in the same style in red ink.
Decoration
The beginnings of sections are marked by minor initials in red ink.
The beginning of the text on f. 5r is preceded by a simple vignette in red ink.
Additions
There are occasional marginal annotations in Greek by different hands (ff. 1r, 11v-12v, 14r).
The fragment has been marked with the present classmark on f. 1r and with the present classmark and the former classmark T.26 on f. 7r.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by the Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874) .
Bought by the University Library from Tischendorf's executors, 23 February 1876.
Additional Information
Availability
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Bibliography
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Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts
in the University Library, Cambridge Scriptorium. Revue internationale des études
relatives aux manuscrits, Easterling, Patricia
E. (16, 2, 302-323, 1962)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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Abbreviations
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