Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.20

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77993

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 collection of Theological writings in Greek which are polemics against the Latin Church, and a small Chronicle of the conquests of the Turks. The texts were written by Panagiotis of Byzantium in 1666/1667. Dr Erika Elia

Language(s): Greek

1. ff. 1r-1v

Eugenikos, Markos, Saint, approximately 1392-1445?, Epilogus adversus Latinos

Rubric: f. 1r Ἐπίλογος τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου μητροπολίτου Ἐφέσου, κυροῦ Μάρκου τοῦ Εὐγενικοῦ, πρὸς Λατίνους καὶ ἑτέρους σχισματικούς

Incipit: f. 1r Τοῦτο τὸ σύμβολον ἀπαιτοῦμεν ὑμᾶς

Explicit: f. 1v l. 3 νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων.

J. Gill, Quae supersunt actorum Graecorum concilii Florentini Pars I, Rome 1953, pp. 216-217

2. ff. 1v -5r

Gennadius II, Patriarch of Constantinople, approximately 1405-approximately 1472, Epistula contra Latinos

Rubric: f. 1v lin. 4 Κυροῦ Γενναδίου τοῦ Σχολαρίου κατὰ Λατίνων

Incipit: f. 1v Κατὰ τῆς τῶν Λατίνων καινοφωνίας περὶ τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐκπορεύσεως

Explicit: f. 5r l. 23 σὺ δέμου[sic] μέμνησο καὶ ὑπερεύχου ἐν ταῖς πρὸς θεὸν προσευχαῖς. Ὁ ταπεινὸς Γεννάδιος

The attribution to Gennadios II Scholarios is dubious, see C.J.G. Turner, Another anti-Latin work attributed to Gennadius Scholarius, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 58 (1965), pp. 338-342

The scribe has occasionally left spaces for missing words

TLG 3195.089

3. ff. 5r -5v

Eugenikos, Markos, Saint, approximately 1392-1445?, Epistula ad Georgium Methonensem

Rubric: f. 5r l. 24 Ἐπιστολὴ τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου καὶ σοφωτάτου μητροπολίτου Ἐφέσου κυροῦ Μάρκου τοῦ Εὐγενικοῦ, πρός τινα πρεσβύτερον Γεώργιον, ἐν τῇ Μεθώνῃ

Incipit: f. 5r Ἐντιμότατε πρεσβύτερε καὶ ἡμῖν ἐν Χριστῷ ποθεινότατε ἀδελφὲ κῦρ Γεώργιε

Explicit: f. 5v l. 18 τῆς ἁγίας συνάξεως εἴσοδος ||

The text ends incomplete at L. Petit, Marci Eugenici Metropolitae Ephesi opera anti-unionistica, 10/2, Rome 1977, p. 163 lin. 18

TLG 3283.010

4. ff. 5v-6r

⟨ Demetrios, Chomatenos, active 1216-1236⟩ , Responsa ad Constantinum Cabasilam episcopum

Rubric: f. 5v l. 20 ⟨ Τ⟩οῦ Κίτρους· κεφάλαιον ιβ΄

Incipit: f. 5v ⟨ Τ⟩ὰ μὲν ἔκφυλα τῶν Λατίνων

Explicit: f. 6r l. 18 σύμβολον τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος σφραγίδος, λαμβάνουσιν.

In the manuscript the reply is attributed to John of Kitros ; the text corresponds to the recension of John of Kitros' work made by Matthew Blastares ; on the attribution see J. Darrouzès, Les réponses canoniques de Jean de Kitros, Revue des études byzantines 31 (1973), pp. 319-334, in particular p. 333

5. ff. 6r-7r

Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople, 1175?-1240, Reply to Pope Gregory IX on the procession of the Holy Spirit

Rubric: f. 6r l. 19 ⟨ Κ⟩υροῦ Γερμανοῦ πατριάρχου, πρὸς τὰς ψευδ' ἀποδείξεις Γρηγορίου τοῦ πάπα περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ἀπάντησις· ⟨ ὅ⟩τι ἐκ μόνου τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκπορεύεται τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον

Incipit: f. 6r ⟨ Τ⟩ὰ κοινὰ πατρὶ καὶ πνεύματι, καθ' ὃ μία φύσις

Explicit: f. 7r κατὰ τῆν τοῦ σωτῆρος φωνὴν, τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἐκπορεύεται.

On the text see H. Golubovich, Disputatio Latinorum ac Graecorum seu Relatio Apocrisariorum Gregorii IX de gestis Nicaeae in Bithynia et Nymphaeae in Lydia, in: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 12 (1919), pp. 418-470: pp. 4123-424 no. 6

ff. 7v-8v are blank

6. f. 9r

Note on the tetragrammaton

Incipit: f. 9r l. 1 Ἀλλ' ἀπορήσειεν ἄν τις λέγων τοῦ τετραγραμμάτου τούτου ὀνόματος

Explicit: f. 9r l. 11 ἐκ τῆς ἀπειράνδρου καὶ θεοτόκου Μαρίας.

7. f. 9r ll. 12-14

Colophon: Ὁ Παναγιώτης. Ταῦτα ἔγραψεν ὁ κύριος Παναγιώτης ὁ Βυζάντιος ὅτε μετὰ τοῦ βεζιραζὲμ, εἰς Κρήτην ἦλθε.

The same colophon is present in MS S. Sepulchri 348 f. 53r ( A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Ἰεροσολυμιτική Βιβλιοθήκη, IV, St. Petersburg 1899, p. 324)

After the colophon the scribe wrote some notes about Crete in that period, mentioning the years 1667 and 1669

8. f. 9v

Chronicle of Turkish conquests (Schreiner Chronik 68)

Incipit: f. 9v 1459 ἐπῆραν τὸν Μισθρᾶ

Explicit: f. 9v καὶ ὁποῖαι στέκονται ἕως σήμερον ἤγουν εἰς τὰ 1667. Αἰωνία του ἡ μνήμη.

Ed. P. Schreiner, Chronica Byzantina breviora, 1, Wien 1975, Chronik 68, pp. 521-525: the text begins at p. 521 no.4 and ends at p. 524 no. 22; the manuscript is indicated as C in the edition

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: ff. 1-9 Western paper, folded in octavo. Watermark, difficult to discern, with a countermark with clover (visible on f. 1).

Extent: Fragment (quire) 9 leaves., 152 × 106 mm.

Foliation: The leaves have been foliated from 1 to 9 in pencil, in Arabic numerals, in the top right hand corner, recto: 1-9

Collation

The quire is a quaternion with the addition of 1 leaf (f. 9).

Quire 1⁸⁺¹ ff. 1-9

Condition

The lower right edge of f. 1r has been ripped. There is a small water stain in the lower part of the gutter. The quire is now sewn into a white paper cover.

Layout

ff. 1r-6v A single column of 27-31 lines. ca. 130 × ca. 90 mm.

Hand(s)

ff. 1r-7r, 9r-9v Hand A: the texts have been written by Panagiotis of Byzantium in a small informal minuscule, slightly slanting to the right. There are a few fluctuations in the speed of the script, which in some places (e.g. on f. 6r ll. 19-25 and f. 9r) appears more upright and the letters are more divided from one another. The text is written in brown ink, initials in red.

Hand B: another hand of the 17th c. added notes in black ink on f. 5v ll. 18-19 and f. 9r ll. 18-19.

Decoration

Thick initials in red ink.

Additions

The leaf is marked on f. 1r with the current classmark and the former classmark T.31 (i.e. Tischendorf 31).

History

Origin: The quire was written by Panagiotis of Byzantium in 1666/1667 in ; Crete. In his colophon on f. 9r the scribe says that he wrote the texts "when he went to Crete with the Grand Vizier" (see Colophon). In a note written below, he mentions the same Gran Vizier, indicating that on 15th May 1667 he attacked Crete for the first time: Ἐδόθη ὁ πρῶτος πόλεμος εἰς τὸ κάστρον τῆς Κρήτης, ὑπὸ τοῦ ἄνωθεν βεζιραζὲμ, μαίου ιε΄ 1667. This person can be identified as the Grand Vizier Köprülü Fazil Ahmed Pasha (1635-1676) , who arrived in Crete in late 1666 (see C.J.G. Turner, Another anti-Latin work attributed to Gennadius Scholarius, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 58 (1965), pp. 338-342: 337 note 15; for the arrival of Köprülü Fazil Ahmed Pasha in Crete see R. C. Anderson, Naval Wars in the Levant, Liverpool 1922, p. 178).

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 P. Easterling, Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, in: Scriptorium 16, 1962, pp. 302-323: 315.

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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)

Another anti-Latin work attributed to Gennadius Scholarius Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Turner, C.J.G. (58, 338-342, 1965)

Chronica Byzantina breviora Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, Schreiner, Peter (Vienna, 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1975)

Funding of Cataloguing

The Polonsky Foundation

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