Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.17

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12088

Introduction: This leaf is part of a collection of fragments bought by Cambridge University Library from Constantin von Tischendorf's heirs in 1876. It contains Three short texts in Greek about the Holy Spirit, written by two hands found in another of Tischendorf's fragments, Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.13 , therefore they probably derive from the same volume. MS Add. 1880.13, containing George Koressios's Dialogue with a Latin teacher, is from the same manuscript as Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.16 . A brown stain in the upper part of the recto of MS Add. 1880.17 near the edge matches a similar stain on f. 2 of Add. 1880.16, attesting that, at a certain point, these two fragments were located together. It seems likely, therefore, that fragments Add. 1880.13, 1880.16 and 1880.17 were originally part of the same volume. Dr Erika Elia

Language(s): Greek

1. f. 1r

Extract from a dialogue(?) about the procession of the Holy Spirit, citing the 7th Synod

Incipit: f. 1r Οἶμαι δ' ἐγὼ ἢ άι[sic] οὗτος ἐνοθεύθη παρὰ τῶν κακοσχόλων

Explicit: f. 1r καὶ οὕτως λέγω περὶ ἧς λέγεις ἀγάπης

2. f. 1v

Note on the Holy Spirit

Incipit: f. 1v l. 1 Ὁ ὅνομα[sic] τῆς προῴδου γενηκῶς[sic]

Explicit: f. 1v l. 4 τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ὥσπερ

There are lot of errors in the spelling

3. f. 1v

Note on the Holy Spirit

Incipit: f. 1v l. 5 ὁνομμα[sic] προῴδοῦ[sic], τοῦ καλὸς ἂν θέλοις

Explicit: f. 1v l. 7 τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος

There are lot of errors in the spelling

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: f. 1 Western paper, folded in quarto. No watermarks are visible.

Extent: Fragment (leaf) 1 leaves., 195 × 145 mm.

Foliation: Modern pencil foliation, in Arabic numerals, in the top right hand corner, recto: 1.

Collation

The leaf was part of a bifolium: a stub remains of the other leaf.

Condition

The leaf is in good condition. There is a brown stain in the upper part of the recto, near the edge. It is now sewn into a white paper cover.

Hand(s)

f. 1r Hand A: a minuscule script datable to the 17th century. It is the same hand as hand B of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.13.

f. 1v Hand B: a slightly later hand wrote the notes on the verso. It is similar to the hand that copied the first words of the folio on the upper margin of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.13, f. 11v, though only a limited number of letter forms can be compared.

Additions

The leaf is marked on the recto with the current classmark and the former classmark T.32.4 (i.e. Tischendorf 32.4).

History

Origin: The quire 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. 1880.17

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