Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.9.69
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12158
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Late 20th or early 21st-century Cambridge University binding with red full leather covering over millboards, with plain pastedowns.
218 × 163 × 104 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by John Moore (b. 1646, d. 1714), bishop of Ely : number 34 in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697).
Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I .
Part 1 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.9.69, ff. 3-10]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
TLG 2018.013
CPG 3465.1
f. 3r is blank apart from some prayers added by a later hand; ff. 3v and 5v are blank.
f. 10v is blank.
Physical Description
Collation
This part consists of a single quire, a quaternion.
- Quire 18-1 ff. 3-10 The last folio has been cancelled, without loss of text.
Condition
Layout
ff. 4r-5v A single column of 26 lines. 155 × 98 mm. Pricking does not survive. Ruled in hardpoint, system unclassified by Leroy: there are single vertical lines marking out the margins, and no visible text lines.
Hand(s)
The text of Eusebios has been added by Hand A, in an upright, archaizing mixed minuscule script, in dark brown ink, with only occasional variations in letter size.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings usually appear only at the end of lines, but occasionally also elsewhere. Breathings are both angular and round, and mute iota is absent. There is frequent decorative use of the double dot, and accentuation of nomina sacra of all lengths, though this is not consistently applied. Accents are sometimes joined to letters.
There are inclusions of letters within omicron. The epsilon-iota ligature is sometimes written without closing the loop (e.g. f. 5r, lines 1-3).
Punctuation used includes the middle and upper points, lower comma and full stop.
This hand has also provided the heading in Alexandrine majuscule script, and the canon table text in mixed minuscule, in pale red ink.
The same hand also added lection notes to the main body of the manuscript, in mixed minuscule script. Mute iota sometimes appears here, in subscript.
Decoration
The canon tables (ff. 6r-10r) have decorative surrounds in red ink.
The start of the text of Eusebios (f. 4r) is preceded by a simple vignette in red ink.
The text of Eusebios begins with a minor initial in red ink.
Additions
History
Part 2 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.9.69, ff. 11-294]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Gregory-Aland 60; Von Soden ε 1321 (e: Kx;); Scrivener Evan. 60.
ff. 12v-13r are blank.
TLG 0031.001
f. 87v is blank, as is f. 88r apart from a later note.
TLG 0031.002
f. 138r is blank apart from two later notes, and f. 138v is blank.
TLG 0031.003
ff. 228v-230r are blank.
TLG 0031.004
The final three words are the scribe's name encoded by a standard cryptographic substitution: ‘Μιχαὴλ ὁ Μαντυλίδης’. A later hand has written the deciphered form below.
f. 294r is blank; f. 294v is blank apart from two later notes.
Physical Description
Collation
This part consists of 34 quires, of which two consist of twelve folios and the rest are quaternia.
- Quire 28+1 ff. 11-19 An additional folio bearing a miniature has been inserted after the third original folio.
- Quires 3-108 ff. 20-83
- Quire 118+1 ff. 84-92 An additional folio bearing a miniature has been inserted after the fourth original folio.
- Quires 12-168 ff. 93-132
- Quire 178+1 ff. 133-141 An additional folio bearing a miniature has been inserted after the third original folio.
- Quires 18-208 ff. 142-165
- Quire 2112 ff. 166-177
- Quires 22-278 ff. 178-225
- Quire 2812+1 ff. 226-238 An additional folio bearing a miniature has been inserted after the fourth original folio.
- Quires 29-358 ff. 239-294
There are orignal quire signatures in brown ink, in Greek numerals, on the first folio of each quire, recto, lower centre, and the last folio of each quire, verso, lower centre, in a sequence beginning from the start of this part. They appear on all quires (Quires 2-35: αʹ-λδʹ), but numbers were omitted for the folios at the the beginning of the current Quire 2 and end of the current Quire 35 (the beginning and end of the original manuscript), and at the beginning of Quire 25.
Modern quire signatures in Arabic numerals, in pencil, have been added to the first folio of each quire, recto, lower right. This is part of the sequence running through the whole volume.
Condition
Layout
ff. 11r-12v A single column of 24 lines. 145 × 90 mm. Pricking survives in the lower margin. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 1, type Leroy 22D1. Text hangs from the lines.
ff. 14-294 A single column of 21-24 lines. 132 × 85 mm. Pricking sometimes survives in all three margins, but some has been lost to cropping. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 1, type Leroy 44D1. Text hangs from the lines. The text lines are extremely faint. The text at the end of each Gospel is arranged in a decorative tapering pattern, flanked by the final rubric to the text.
Hand(s)
The main text has been copied by Michael Mantylides (Hand B), in an elegant scribal mixed minuscule script, upright or slanting slightly to the right, in dark brown ink. There is moderate variation in letter size and frequent flourishing of tails into the margin.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings appear only at the end of lines, except in the upper line. Breathings are round and mute iota is absent. There is decorative use of the double dot, and accentuation of all nomina sacra . The double grave accent is in use. The hyphen is used to unite words (e.g. f. 195v, line 26).
There are inclusions of letters within omicron. Enlarged theta appears in a variety of forms, with the central bar straight or wavy, attached or detached, and with or without a central dot.
Punctuation used includes the middle and upper points, lower and middle commas, question mark and full stop.
Chapter lists, initial and final rubric, chapter numbers and headings, and major and minor initials have been added by Hand C, who has also added lection notes on ff. 11r-12r, in mixed minuscule script, with variable slant, in bright red ink.
Breathings are round and mute iota is either subscript (e.g. f. 293r, line 9) or a range of different transitional forms, (e.g. f. 12r, line 13, f. 87r, line 6, f. 293r, line 4). There is decorative use of the double dot, and accentuation of all nomina sacra .
Punctuation used includes the lower, middle and upper points, lower comma and full stop.
The same hand has added Gospel headings in epigraphic display majuscule, in bright red ink.
Ammonian section numbers and lection notes have been added throughout by Hand A, in Alexandrine majuscule script, in pale red ink.
Decoration
Portraits of the Evangelists accompany all four Gospels. Those of Matthew, Mark and Luke are in a 10th-century style and have either been cannibalised from an older manuscript or produced in an archaising style imitating an older exemplar. There is also a miniature of Christ as the Ancient of Days, surrounded by the symbols of the four Evangelists, on the same leaf as the miniature of St Luke. These two are of more recent date, and were perhaps painted at the time of the manuscript's original production or added when it was rebound with additional material added. However, these two miniatures seem too large for the manuscript, and this leaf too is perhaps reused from another original manuscript.
- f. 13v Matthew ( 140 × 100 mm. )
- f. 88v Mark ( 148 × 103 mm. )
- f. 139r Christ with the symbols of the Evangelists ( 195 × 140 mm. )
- f. 139v Luke ( 176 × 138 mm. )
- f. 230v John ( 147 × 102 mm. )
The Gospel of Matthew is preceded by a pyle, and the other three Gospels by rectangular headpieces, with vegetative or lozenge ornament, in bright red ink:-
- f. 14r Matthew
- f. 89r Mark
- f. 140r Luke
- f. 231r John
The text of each Gospel begins with a relatively small ornamented major initial in bright red ink. Minor initials in red ink frequently appear at the beginning of lines.
Additions
As part of the original production of the manuscript, Hand C has added marginal κεφάλαιον (chapter) numbers and τίτλοι (titles). This hand has also added lection notes on ff. 11r-12r. Hand A has later added marginal Ammonian section numbers and lection notes. The lection notes include ἀρχή and τέλος marks indicting the beginning and end of lections, which appear in the margin or squeezed into the text, as space has not been left for them, indicating that these additions were not part of the original production.
Very occasional marginal notes in later hands appear (e.g. f. 117r). On f. 88r a later hand has copied text from Mt 26:2-3.
On f. 293v another hand has written out the name of Michael Mantylides, deciphering his cryptographic rendering of his name. On f. 294v another hand has twice copied a small portion of the colophon.
Some running headers have been added in the upper outer corners in Latin script, in black ink, giving modern chapter and verse references, apparently by the same hand responsible for the earlier foliation.
History
Part 3 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.9.69, ff. 295-316]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Gregory-Aland 2821; Von Soden α 1594; Scrivener Apoc. 10
TLG 0031.027
f. 316v is blank apart from two later notes.
Excerpts from Andrew's commentary are written in the margins.
TLG 3004.001
CPG 7478
PG 106, coll. 207-485
Physical Description
Collation
This part consists of three quires, of which one is a ternion and the others quaternia.
- Quires 36-378 ff. 295-310
- Quire 386 ff. 311-316
There are orignal quire signatures in black ink, in Greek numerals, on the first folio of each quire, recto, lower right. The sequence continues from the original sequence of the preceding part. They survive on all quires (λεʹ-λζʹ).
Modern quire signatures in Arabic numerals, in pencil, have been added to the first folio of each quire, recto, lower right. This is part of the sequence running through the whole volume.
Condition
Layout
A single column of 25-28 lines. 152-160 × 98-105 mm. There is no visible pricking or ruling.
Hand(s)
The main text of this part has been copied and marginal scholia added by Hand D, in a somewhat informal Hodegon-style mixed minuscule script, slanted to the right, in black ink. The same hand has added the heading, initials and further scholia from the same commentary, in the same style, in pale orange-red ink. There is modest variation in letter size.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings usually appear only at the end of lines, but occasionally elsewhere. Breathings are round and mute iota is absent. There is frequent decorative use of the double dot, and accentuation of all nomina sacra . The double grave accent is in use.
Punctuation used includes the middle and upper points, lower and middle commas, question mark and full stop.
Decoration
The start of the text of Revelation (f. 295r) is preceded by a simple vignette in red ink.
The text of Eusebios begins with a major initial with simple ornament, in red ink.
Minor initials in red ink frequently appear at the beginning of lines.
Additions
On f. 316v a later hand has written a series of names: ‘Κυριακο ὁ Κυβίου’, ‘Νικολαου ιερέος’ and ‘Ευφροσινι’
Also on f. 316v, another hand has added a heading for the text which follows in the next part of this manuscript: ‘+ Εὐχαι τοῦ μέγαλου Βασιλῆου’.
History
Part 4 [Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.9.69, ff. 317-324]
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Excerpt
TLG 5332.002
f. 324v is blank apart from some later brief prayers.
Physical Description
Collation
This part consists of a single quire, a quaternion.
- Quire 398 ff. 317-324
There is what appears to be a quire signature in red ink on the first folio of the quire, recto, lower centre. If this is a signature, it presumably pertains to a different volume of which this quire was once a part.
There is a quire signature in black ink, in Greek numerals, on the first folio of the quire, recto, lower right (ληʹ). This is part of the same sequence as that in the preceding part.
Condition
Layout
A single column of 19-20 lines. 135-142 × 85-100 mm. Pricking does not survive. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 1, type Leroy 11D1bn. Text is written along the lines.
Hand(s)
The text of this part has been copied by Hand E, in an informal mixed minuscule script, slanting to the right, in grey-brown ink. There is significant variation in letter size.
Syllabic abbreviations usually appear only at the end of lines, and only occasionally elsewhere, but superscript word endings appear frequently throughout the line. Breathings are round and mute iota is absent. There is frequent decorative use of the double dot, and accentuation of all nomina sacra . Iota and upsilon also appear with a single dot. Accents are sometimes joined to breathings, letters, abbreviations and nomina sacra strokes.
The loop epsilon and sigma telikon are present. Distinctive letter forms include a large, bulbous and sharply slanted minuscule nu. The abbreviation of καὶ takes an unusual tilted and angular form.
Punctuation used includes the lower, middle and upper points, lower and middle commas and full stop.
Decoration
Minor initials in red ink appear at the begining of sections of the text.
Additions
History
Additional Information
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