Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.16

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12088

Introduction: This quire is part of a collection of fragments bought by Cambridge University Library from Constantin von Tischendorf's heirs in 1876. It contains a part of George Koressios's Dialogue with a Latin teacher ; the preceding part of the text is in another of Tischendorf's fragments, Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.13 ; they were originally part of the same manuscript, together with another of Tischendorf's fragments, Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.17 . Georgios Koressios, native of Chios, was lecturer in Greek at the University of Pisa from 1609-1615 and is known for his dispute with Galileo Galilei about floating bodies. Dr Erika Elia

Language(s): Greek and Latin

Koréssios, Geṓrgios, Dialogue with a Latin teacher

Incipit: || f. 12r ἡ ἀγάπη διττῶς νοεῖται

Explicit: f. 13v ἵνα δειχθῇ ὡς ὁ υἱὸς οὐκ ἔστιν ἀρχὴ, ἀλλὰ μὸνον δοτήρ.||

The text was printed by Nikodemos Metaxas, presumably in Constantinople around 1627, Τοῦ μακαριωτάτου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Μελετίου Ἀρχιεπισκόπου Ἀλεξανδρείας, Λιβύης, Πενταπόλεως, Αἰθιωπίας, καὶ πάσης γῆς Αἰγύπτου Περὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ πᾶπα ὡς ἐν εἴδει έπιστολῶν; it starts at Metaxas p. 7 l. 39

At the end (from f. 13r l. 1, corresponding to p. 8 l. 26 of the edition), the text differs from the printed edition; due to the absence of the usual concluding formulas, it may be incomplete

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: ff. 12-13 Western paper, folded in quarto. Watermark: Crossbow ( ca. 50 × 40 mm. ) in the gutter. With just a single bifolium it is not possible to ascertain the presence of a countermark and to identify the watermark.

Extent: Fragment (bifolium) 2 leaves., 200 × 145 mm.

Foliation: Modern pencil foliation, in Arabic numerals, in the top right hand corner, recto: 12-13. The foliation continues that of MS Add. 1880.13.

Collation

The fragment is a bifolium.

Quire 1² ff. 12-13

Condition

The leaves are in good condition. There are some yellow stains at the edges and damage due to fire on the upper external edge of the leaves. The bifolium is now sewn into a white paper cover.

Layout

One single column of 17-18 lines. 200 × 145 mm.

Hand(s)

ff. 12r-13v Hand A: the hand is the same as hand A in MS Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1880.13. The text is written in a dark brown ink, the part in Latin (f. 12v ll. 7-17) in a lighter brown ink.

Additions

The leaf is marked on f. 13r with the current classmark and the former classmark T.32.3 (i.e. Tischendorf 32.3).

History

Origin: The bifolium was written probably in the 17th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by the Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874) .

Bought by the University Library from Tischendorf's executors in 1876.

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description (2020) partly draws on an unpublished description by R.V. Kerr, under-Librarian at Cambridge University Library, and P. Easterling, Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, in: Scriptorium 16, 1962, pp. 302-323: 315.

Availability

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Bibliography

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

Digital Images

Cambridge Digital Library

Abbreviations

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Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.16

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