Introduction:
This manuscript, copied in the late 17th century, contains a
Byzantine and patristic miscellany of excerpts and brief texts,
predominantly Christian works but including some secular texts. It forms part of a
two-volume set, of which the other is MS
Dd.6.18, copied by the same hand. That volume contains Byzantine religious
texts, with a particular interest in Church organisation. Here the focus is on
theology, including scriptural commentaries and works concerning heresies and
doctrinal disagreements between East and West, along with historical, geographical
and scientific works.
Much of the manuscript is divided into two columns, of which one
contains the text and the other notes on it, primarily recording interventions
intended to correct the reading in the exemplar manuscript. Where the text is in a
single column, these appear at the foot of the page. The person responsible for
copying it was probably one R. Ray, the scholar at Trinity College whose ownership
note, dated to 1693 and identical to a note in Dd.6.18, appears on f. i recto. This Ray currently remains
unidentified, and no such person appears among the Fellows listed in Hugh
MacLeod Innes, Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge
(Cambridge 1941). He may have been a relative of John Ray (or Wray), a
notable scholar and Fellow of Trinity in the mid-17th century.
Dr Christopher Wright
Language(s): Greek
1. ff. 1v-6v
Photios I, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 820-c.
891),
Epitome de Spiritu Sancti mystagogia
Excerpt: sections 1-13
Rubric:
f. 1v Φωτίου Πατριάρχου κατὰ τῶν τῆς παλαιᾶς Ῥώμης
ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς μόνου ἐκπορεύεται τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ἀλλ'οὐχὶ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ
Υἱοῦ
Incipit:
f. 1v Εἰ ἁπλῶν μὲν τὸ Πνεῦμα ἐκ τοῦ
Πατρὸς
Explicit:
f. 6v εἰ μὴ προφανῶς μέμηνεν
TLG 4040.005
2. ff. 7v-15v
Anatolios, Patriarch of Constantinople (d.
458),
Epistula ad Leonem papam
Rubric:
f. 7v Ἐπιστολὴ Ἀνατολίου ἐπισκόπου
Κωνσταντινουπόλεως πρὸς Λέοντα ἀρχιεπισκόπου Ῥώμης
Incipit:
f. 7v Τῆς μὲν ὑμετέρας ἁγιωσύνης ὁ περὶ τὴν
εὐσέβειαν ζῆλος
Explicit:
f. 15v χαρισθείσης ἡμῖν θεοφιλέστατε καὶ
μακαριώτατε πάτερ
Final rubric:
f. 15v Τέλος
TLG 2759.001; CPG 5956; PL 54, coll. 854-856
3. f. 16v
Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-c. 215),
Fragmenta
Fragment 53
Rubric:
f. 16v Κλήμεντος ἐκ τῶν στρωματέων
Incipit:
f. 16v Ἐλεημοσύνας δεῖ ποιεῖν ὁ λόγος
φησίν
Explicit:
f. 16v καὶ εἰ μὴ παρ'αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ παρὰ
ὑψίστω
TLG 0555.008; PG 89, col. 465
4. f. 16v
Dionysios of Alexandria (d. c. 265),
Contra Origenem
Rubric:
f. 16v Διονυσίου Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ
Ὠριγένην
Incipit:
f. 16v
Ἐαν[sic] μὴ τὸν παράδεισον μὴ τοῦ κόσμου μέρος
Explicit:
f. 16v ἐστὶ γὰρ τόπος ἀνατολῆς καὶ χωρίον
ἐκλογῆς
CPG 7746.23; PG 89, col. 541
5. f. 17v
Eusebios of Caesarea (c. 260-c. 340),
Fragment
Cited in
Georgius monachus
, Chronicon, ed. C. de Boor,
2 vols. (Leipzig 1904), p. 199 (TLG 3043.001)
Rubric:
f. 17v Εὐσεβίου Παμφίλου ἐκ τῆς Ἀρχαιολογικῆς
Ἱστορίας
Incipit:
f. 17v Τὰς βίβλους τοῦ Σολομῶντος τὰς περὶ τῶν
παραβολῶν
Explicit:
f. 17v περιορᾶν εἰτεῖν παρὰ Θεῶ τὰς
ἰάσεις
6. ff. 17v-18v
Hippolytus Romanus (c. 170-c. 235),
Interpretatio Cantici canticorum
Rubric:
ff. 17v Ἱππολύτου ἐκ τοῦ εἰς Ἄσμα τῶν
Ἀσμάτων
Incipit:
ff. 17v Καὶ ποῦ πᾶσα ἡ πλουσία αὕτη
γνῶσις
Explicit:
ff. 18v ἐξελέξαντο τὰ πρὸς οἰκοδομὴν
ἐκκλησίας
TLG 2115.031; CPG 1871; PG 10, coll. 628-629
7. ff. 18v-19v
Hippolytus Romanus (c. 170-c. 235),
Commentarii in Proverbia (fragmenta)
Rubric:
f. 18v Ἱππολύτου. Τί ἐστιν, ἡ σοφία οἰκοδομήσασα
ἑαυτῆ οἶκον
Incipit:
f. 18v Χριστὸς ἡ τοῦ Θεοῦ σοφία, καὶ Πατρὸς
δύναμις
Explicit:
f. 19v ἐσθίειν καὶ πίνειν εἰς ἄφεσιν
ἁμαρτιῶν
Final rubric:
f. 19v Manifestum unde haec desumpta
sunt, satis est vetustum
CPG 1883
8. ff. 19v-22v
Gelasios of Caesarea (d. 395),
Historia ecclesiastica
Rubric:
f. 19v Barocci 142 folio 216. α
Incipit:
f. 19v Γενναδίου τοῦ Καισαρείας καὶ αὐτὸς
τελευτῶν κατέκρινεν
Explicit:
f. 22v περὶ εἴδησιν λόγων τῶν τε καθ'ἡμᾶς καὶ τῶν
ἔξωθεν
CPG 3521
9. ff. 25r-75v
Nikephoros Blemmydes (1197-1272),
Summary geography
Γεωγραφία συνοπτική
Rubric:
f. 25r Νικηφόρου τοῦ Βλεμμίδους Γεωγραφία
συνοπτικὴ
Incipit:
f. 25r Βουλόμενος δὴ ὡς ἐν συντόμω πᾶσαν τὴν
οἰκουμένην
Explicit:
f. 75v ἀλλ'εἴθε μοι γένοιτο ἐκ Θεοῦ τῶν ὕμνων
αὐτῶν ἀντάξιος ἡ ἀμοιβή
Final rubric:
f. 75v Ἐν Βενετία εἰς τὸν
μὲγα[sic] Γεώργιον διαχειρὸς Ἀντωνίου
TLG 3092.006
10. ff. 77r-83r
Symeon Seth,
Summary on nature
Σύνοψις τῶν φυσικῶν
Excerpts: 3.45, 1.3-1.9; an additional section appears between 1.6 and
1.7
Attributed here to Dionysios the Areopagite
Rubric:
f. 77r Ἱστορία Διουσίου τοῦ Ἀρεοπαγείτου
Incipit:
f. 77r Ἅπαντα μὲν ὅσα τὸ θεῖον ἐδημιούργησε καὶ
σοφίας ἀνάμεσα
Explicit:
f. 83r ἡ δὲ ἀρχὴ ἀνατολικωτέρων, καὶ τῆς Περσίας
ἐστὶν ἐπέκεινα
TLG 3113.003
Form: codex
Support:
Western paper, folded in quarto.
Watermark:
Coat of arms (
c. 65 × 45 mm.
) in the
gutter, similar to Heawood 456, 458-460,
473, but including only the main motif without countermarks. These
examples are dated to 1670-1713.
Extent:
Codex:
2 + 91 leaves.
182 × 145 mm.
Foliation: The manuscript is foliated with the numbers i-ii + 1-91, in pencil, in
Arabic and Roman numerals, recto, upper right. Every ten folios of ff. 1-91, the folio number 1, 11, 21 etc is also
written in pencil, recto, lower right. On ff. i-ii,
1 the numbers 1-3 also appear in pencil, recto, lower centre and lower
right, but in the latter position they have been cancelled and replaced with the
numbers i-ii and 1.
Collation
The collation could not be determined, due to the erratic distribution of
watermarks and the lack of other evidence.
Condition
There is a lateral tear in f. 26 and a
tear from the fore-edge of f. 70. A single
worm-hole runs througout the manuscript. There are patches of dirt and some
iron-gall ink corrosion.
Layout
ff. 1v-21v A single column of 21-25 lines.
150 × 118 mm.
Margins ruled in red crayon.
ff. 25r-83r Two columns of 20-26 lines. The main text appears
in the inner column, notes on content and emendations in the narrower outer
column.
155 × 120 mm.
Margins and column division ruled in pencil.
Hand(s)
The manuscript was copied, probably by R. Ray, in a western European mixed minuscule
script imitating early printing.
Additions
As part of the original production of the manuscript, notes have been placed in the
outer column of text or at the foot of the page, recording where the text has been
corrected from that in the exemplar and other remarks.
An ownership note dated 1693 has been added on f. i recto: ‘R: Ray. C.T.C. 1693’, together with the
classmark.
Binding
17th-century full leather binding, with decorative blind tooling on both boards.
The classmark appears on labels on the spine, along with a blank red leather label
for a title.
190 × 155 × 24 mm.
The binding has been rebacked. Both outer joints are partially
split.
Origin: The manuscript was copied in the second half of the 17th century, before 1693, as
indicated by the watermark and the ownership note on f. i recto. The early owner recorded by this note, R. Ray, a
student or fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, may well have copied it himself for
his own use. In any case it was produced in ; England, as indicated by its English watermark.
Provenance and Acquisition
Possibly presented in 1715 by
George I
, as part of the collection of
John Moore (b.
1646, d. 1714), bishop of Ely
. This is suggested by the presence inside the left board of
the bookplate used for this collection. However, this bookplate was sometimes
incorrectly placed in manuscripts which did not belong to this collection, and this
manuscript is not recorded as part of it in Bernard, Catalogi
librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697), nor in the
handwritten supplementary list of Moore’s manuscripts, now MS Oo.7.50(2), compiled
by
Thomas
Tanner
.
