Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 6220.11

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77940

Introduction: This fragment is made of one loose leaf and a bifolium containing some letters of Meletius I Pegas (1549-1601), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1590 and 1601. The leaves have been incorrectly foliated, and text runs from ff. 2r-3v to 1r-1v. Dr Matteo Di Franco

Language(s): Greek

Meletios I, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 1551-1601, Letters 4, line 29 - 7, line 15 (ed. Methodios 1970-1975)

Incipit: || f. 2r καὶ ἡμετέρου υἱοῦ, μεθ’ οὗ εἰ βούλεται ἡ σὴ αὐθεντία γραψάτω πρὸς ἡμᾶς περὶ ὧν ἀνωτέρω ἐδηλώσαμεν

Explicit: f. 1v ἄλλως ἢ ὡς ἐβουλόμεθα ὠκονόμηται· τῇ θεία μὲν χάριτι, ἔχειν τε χρεὼν χάριν καὶ ὁμολογεῖν||

TLG 9058.001

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: ff. 1r-3v paper, folded in quarto. Watermark: Anchor ( 55 × 40 mm. ) in the gutter, comparable to Heawood 1, dated 1609.

Extent: Fragment (quire) 3 leaves. 210 × 155 mm.

Foliation: 2-3, 1. Foliated in Arabic numerals, in pencil, recto, upper right. The fragments have been incorrectly foliated: the loose leaf (f. 1) should follow the bifolium (ff. 2-3).

Collation

The fragment consists of one bifolium and a loose leaf: Quire 1² ff. 2-3, Loose leaf f. 1

Condition

There are extensive wormholes.

Layout

One columns of 21 lines. 155 × 100 mm.

Hand(s)

The text was copied in a cursive minuscule script, in brown ink, slanting to the right and angular, executed with rapidity with moderate variation in letter size.

Binding

The fragments are kept in a folder and unbound.

History

Origin: The style of script and the watermark suggest that the fragment was written in the early 17th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by Alexander Gordon Wynch Murray (1884-1919) .

Presented to the Library in 1919, along with an accompanying note in Greek, MS Add. 6220.10.

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Funding of Cataloguing

The Polonsky Foundation

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