Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.18

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77991

Introduction: This fragment is a single leaf containing a page of the third Notitia Episcopatuum (ed. Parthey 1866). The Notitiae Episcopatuum are the lists and hierarchical ranks of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of an Eastern church, in this case that of Constantinople. This copy also presents the scholia and variants of the Codex Farnesianus, as they were printed by J. Freher in his edition of J. Leunclavius' Jus graeco-romanum (Frankfurt 1596), tom. I p. 92. The fragment was acquired by Constantin von Tischendorf and bought from his heirs by Cambridge University Library in 1876. Dr Matteo Di Franco

Language(s): Greek

Notitia Episcopatuum III, lines 136-204 (ed. Parthey 1866)

Incipit: f. [1]r ηʹ τῷ Νικαίας, Βιθυνίας. α ὁ Μοδρηνῆς, ἤτοι Μέλης. β ὁ Ληνόης. γ ὁ Γορδοσέρβων. δ ὁ Νουμερικῶν. ε ὁ Ταείου. ϛ ὁ Μαξιμιανῶν

Explicit: f. [1]v ιϛʹ τῷ Θεσσαλονίκης, Θεσσαλίας. α ὁ Κίτρους. β ὁ Βεῤῥοίας. γ ὁ Δρουγουβιτίας. δ ὁ Σερβίων. ε ὁ Κασανδρίας. ϛ ὁ Καμπανίας ἤτοι Καστρίου. ὁ Πέ⟨τρας⟩ ||

cf. TLG 3175.001

Physical Description

Form: sheet

Support: f. [1] paper, folded in quarto. No watermark is visible.

Extent: Fragment (leaf) 1 leaves. 207 × 162 mm.

Foliation: Not foliated.

Condition

In fair condition; small brown stains are present. The fragment is now sewn into a white paper cover.

Layout

One columns of 19-20 lines. 160 × 115 mm.

Hand(s)

The text was copied in a minuscule script, in black ink, with initials and numerals in red ink by the same hand. The script is slanting to the right and executed with precision. It has few ligatures, for example the overlapping of omicron-ypsilon for the diphthong and the small stirrup-shaped rho-omicron ligature. Breathings are curved; accents do not join to letters or breathings; the iota mutum is in use. Beta is bilobate, with distant eyelets, lambda is wide and developed below the writing line, xi is not very evident and almost a vertical line, pi has the closed shape, the descending stroke of rho has a small hook to the left, tau is curved.

Decoration

Initials and numerals in red ink.

Additions

The current classmark and former classmark "T.32.5" have been added in the upper margin of the recto.

Binding

The fragment is sewn into a white paper cover.

History

Origin: The style of script suggests that the fragment was written probably in the second half of 16th century or later.

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 based on P. Easterling, Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, in: Scriptorium 16, 1962, pp. 302-323: 319, and unpublished description by R.V. Kerr, Under-Librarian of CUL († 1987).

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. 1880.18

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