Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 3050
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12113
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Structure:
- chapters 1-12
- 13-19 Περὶ ἀρχιερέων
- 20-73 Περὶ κληρικῶν
- 74-113 Περὶ μοναχῶν
- 114-120 Περὶ ἱερομονάχων
- 121-221 Περὶ κοσμικῶν
The same Nomocanon is present in MS Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Suppl. gr. 113, ff. 48r-130v (see H. Hunger, C. Hannick, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der õsterreichischen Nationalbibliotek, Teil 4: Supplementum Graecum, Wien 1994, pp. 194-195
See with differencies R.P.J. Goar, Εὐχολόγιον sive rituale graecorum complectens ritus et ordines divinae liturgiae, Venice 1730, pp. 536-537 (TLG 5332.001)
The chapters are numbered in red from α΄ (1) to σκ΄ (220)
Physical Description
Collation
The codex is formed of quires of 14, 16 and 18 leaves.
- Quire 114 ff. 1-14
- Quire 2 18 ff. 15-32
- Quire 3 16 ff. 33-48
- Quire 414 ff. 49-62
- Quire 518 ff. 63-80
- Quire 614 ff. 81-94
- Quire 718 ff. 95-112
- Quire 814 ff. 113-126
Condition
Layout
- ff. 1r-24v: a single column of 19-20 lines
- ff. 25r-31v: a single column of 14 lines
- ff. 32r-107v: a single column of 13 lines
- ff. 108r-126v: a single column of 21 lines
Hand(s)
ff. 1r-126v Hand A: a minuscule script slanting to the right, flowing, characterized by hooks at the ends of strokes, and a tendency to prefer angular forms. Uprights are always curved and tend to be oblique.
The text is written in black ink on ff. 1r-24v, 32r-128v; the scribe uses a brown ink on ff. 25r-31v, where the line is also thicker. The scribe does not use iota subscript.
Decoration
On f. 1r there is a rectangular headpiece traced in brown ink; in the centre there is a plaited motif on a black background; the headpiece has a red frame.
Friezes are present throughout:
- f. 2r, 10r frieze representing a branch with leaves, traced in black ink with some elements coloured in red
- f. 14v rope motif, traced in black ink, partially filled in red
- ff. f. 114v, 117r friezes representing a branch, with knots, traced in black ink with a red line within
- f. 126r frieze representing a branch traced in red ink.
Initials in ekthesis in red ink decorated with vegetal motifs, see e.g. ff. 1r and 114v.
Minor initials in red ink, sometimes with small decoration, see e.g. ff. 113r and 113v.
Zoomorphic initials in red ink (fishes), see e.g. ff. 105v and 108v.
Additions
On f. 1r is written, in black ink, the shelfmark ‘ Add. 3050’.
In the lower margin of f. 126v is written a number, by a later hand; the ink is faded, possibly ‘ 1828’ (a date?).
Binding
Both boards have been lost, only the spine remains. It belonged to a western binding, and it is covered in brown leather with blind tooling in form of two flowers and a star. The manuscript is preserved in a box made by J.S. Wilson and Son with gold tooled shelfmark. With the manuscript is kept a leaf of paper which was folded and used as a paper wrapper for the manuscript (see Accompanying Material).
Accompanying Material
In the box, with the manuscript, is kept a small folder containing some soft material (perhaps wool), which was inserted at f. 79.
With the manuscript comes, in a paper folder, a leaf ( 222 × 320 mm. ), in western paper (no watermark is visible), which now has been sealed in a melinex envelope. Shadings and stains on the leaf suggest that it was once used as a wrapper for the manuscript: in the upper part, centre, there is a water stain, which corresponds with a similar stain in the upper part of the external leaves of the manuscript (see f. 1r), near the gutter. On the leaf there are handwritten notes in black ink: accounts, calculations, and some notes written in a late Greek hand, in modern Greek. The notes were written before the leaf was folded.
History
The manuscript was written in 1669, as the colophon on f. 114r states.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Bibliography
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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
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Abbreviations
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