Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 3324
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12120
Contents
Physical Description
Collation
16-1, 2-118, 128-2, 13-458 | 46-474, 484-2
Condition
Binding
Byzantine binding. Brown leather cover over wooden boards. Blind tooling on cover: two rectangular frames of double fillets, with various small stamps (arabesques, vegetal motifs) and a circular medallion containing a double-headed eagle. On the right board there are two groups of three holes, where the clasps were fixed. Remnants of a triple-braided leather strap are visible on the right pastedown. On the lower part of the spine golden tooling with the shelfmark.
235 × 165 × 90 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The manuscript was bought in 1895 from Bernard Quaritch (Easterling (1962), p. 314).
Part 1 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 3324, ff. 2-358]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
The sermons are numbered from α΄ (1) to ϟ΄ (90)
Ed. M. Pirard, Ἀββὰ Ἰσαὰκ τοῦ Σύρου Λόγοι ἀσκητικοὶ, Ἅγιος Ὄρος, Ἱερὰ Μονὴ Ἰβήρων 2012 (the manuscript is used in the edition and is indicated as C); CPG 7868
The sermons and epistles are numbered as they are in Pirard's 2012 edition; for a correspondence of Pirard's numbering with the one in Theotokes' edition (N. Theotokes, Τοῦ ὁσίου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἰσαὰκ έπισκόπου Νινευὶ τοῦ Σύρου εὑρεθέντα ἀσκητικά, Leipzig 1770 ) see Pirard (2012), pp. 881-883
On this anonymous text, the various titles it has been given and its presence in Isaac of Niniveh's manuscripts see Pirard 2012, in particular p. 864n
Pirard (2012), pp. 863-879; the text starts imperfectly, due to the loss of a leaf, at p. 865 l. 69.
In the manuscript this text is divided in 4 logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus)
The text ends imperfectly due to the loss of two leaves at τῆς δεήσεως· ἀλλὰ περὶ … ( Pirard (2012), p. 351 l. 31)
The text starts imperfectly due to the loss of two leaves at ἐν αὐτῇ ἀναστρέφεσθαι ( Pirard (2012), p. 355 l. 40)
The text has been excluded from Isaac's collection in Pirard (2012) (it was sermon 43 in Theotokes' edition); for the text see Pirard (2012), pp. 803-812.
The text has been excluded from Isaac's collection in Pirard (2012) (it is sermon 2 in Theotokes' edition); for the text see Pirard (2012), pp. 813-817.
The text has been excluded from Isaac's collection in Pirard (2012) (it is sermon 7 in Theotokes' edition); it comes from a monastic typikon, see Pirard (2012), p. 801, and the text on pp. 820-824.
In the manuscript this text is divided into five logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
In the manuscript this text is divided into two logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
In the manuscript this text is divided into two logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
The text has been excluded from Isaac's collection in Pirard 2012 (it is sermon 80 in Theotokes' edition); for the text see Pirard (2012), pp. 818-819.
In the manuscript this text is divided into two logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
In the manuscript this text is divided into four logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
In the upper margin, the scribe wrote in red ink Βιβλίον τὸ δεύτερον
In the manuscript, the sermon does not end in the same place as in the printed edition.
In the manuscript, the sermon does not start in the same place as in the printed edition; moreover, it is divided into two logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
The text does not end in the same place as in the printed edition.
The text does not begin in the same place as in the printed edition.
In the manuscript this text is divided into two logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
In the manuscript this text is divided into two logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
In the manuscript this text is divided into four logoi (see Pirard (2012), apparatus).
In the manuscript this text is divided into two logoi (see Pirard 2012, apparatus).
Sermons 56-57 form a unique text in the manuscript.
Sermons 56-57 form a unique text in the manuscript.
The text in part I ends imperfectly at Pirard (2012), p. 852 l. 739. It was completed by a later hand in part II.
Physical Description
Collation
Part I is formed almost entirely by quaternions. Quire 1 is a ternion which has lost the first leaf, with loss of text; quire 12 has lost the 4th and 5th leaves (ff. 90-91), again with loss of text.
- Quire 16-1 ff. 2-6
- Quires 2-118 ff. 7-86 (β΄-ια΄)
- Quire 128-2 ff. 87-89, 92-94 (ιβ΄)
- Quires 13-458 ff. 95-358 (ιγ΄-με΄)
Layout
ff. 2r-358v A single column of 24 lines. 175-180 ca. × 110 mm.
Hand(s)
Hand A: the texts have been written in a minuscule script, regular, small, upright, characterized by the enhancement of some oblique and vertical strokes (in letters such as tau, delta, chi, alpha), datable in the first half of the 14th century.
The text is written in brown ink; titles and initials in red.
The scribe wrote also notes in the margins.
Decoration
Initials in ekthesis in red ink with a simple vegetal decoration, see e.g. f. 17r. Minor thick initials in red ink, see e.g. f. 16r.
Additions
Passim, throughout the manuscript, there are marginal annotations in Greek by another hand, see e.g. ff. 173v, 274v, 336v.
On the left pastedown there are modern annotations in pencil, presumably by a librarian: the letter ‘ F’ (relating to the size of the codex), and the number ‘ 87’ with the indication of the author of the texts ‘ Isaac Ninevita’; in black ink is written twice the number ‘ 12’, maybe a previous shelfmark; moreover, there are some scattered annotations by hand B in Greek, indicating some relevant passages of the text.
On f. 2r, in the upper margin, there are modern annotations indicating the present shelfmark of the manuscript and the loss of f. 1. Similar notes in pencil indicating the loss of leaves are present in the upper margin of f. 92r (ff. 90-91) and on the right pastedown.
On the right pastedown there are annotations in modern Greek, accounts, by a hand not present elsewhere in the manuscript.
History
The main part of the manuscript was copied in the 14th century, probably in the first half, as suggested by the watermark of the paper.
Part 2 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 3324, ff. 359-368]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Ed. N. Theotokes, Τοῦ ὁσίου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἰσαὰκ έπισκόπου Νινευὶ τοῦ Σύρου εὑρεθέντα ἀσκητικά, Leipzig 1770 , Ed. M. Pirard, Ἀββὰ Ἰσαὰκ τοῦ Σύρου Λόγοι ἀσκητικοὶ, Ἅγιος Ὄρος, Ἱερὰ Μονὴ Ἰβήρων 2012
The text in part II starts imperfectly from the point where the text in part I ends (Pirard 2012, p. 852 l. 739).
Physical Description
Collation
Part II consists of binions. The last two leaves of quire 48 have been excised, without loss of text.
- Quires 46-47 4 ff. 359-366 (μϛ΄-μζ΄)
- Quire 48 4-2 ff. 367-368 (μη΄)
Layout
ff. 359r-363r A single column of 22 lines. 180 × 110-115 ca. mm.
Hand(s)
ff. 359r-363r Hand B: these leaves have been copied by Michael Antristos (16th c., 4th quarter-17th c., beginning ) , (Μιχαὴλ Ἄντριστος, RGK II, 378. See also RGK I, 277; RGK III, 364) in a minuscule script, with many curly flourishes
The text is written in brown ink.
The scribe seems to have retraced lines of the texts, where the ink was faded due to water stains (see e.g. f. 358v).
History
The original manuscript (part I) probably suffered damage before the end of the 16th century. Between the end of the 16th century and the first decade of the 17th, the scribe Michael Antristos (active 4th quarter of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century) completed the end of the text and restored it in some parts where the ink was faded due to water stains.
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Bibliography
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Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts
in the University Library, Cambridge Scriptorium. Revue internationale des études
relatives aux manuscrits, Easterling, Patricia
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Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten,
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Byzantinistik, Gamillscheg, ErnstHarlfinger, Dieter, (Wien, II. Frankreich, Verlag der Österreichischen
Akademie der
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Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten,
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Byzantinistik, Gamillscheg, ErnstHarlfinger, DieterEleuteri, Paolo (Wien, III. Rom mit dem
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Logoi askētikoi / Abba Isaak tou Syrou, (Hagion Oros, Hiera Monē Ivērōn, 2012)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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