Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.4.29*

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12175

Introduction: This fragment consists of six folios from the end of MS Ee.4.29, a 12th-century collection of Canon law, which seem to have been left out when that manuscript was last rebound, and were therefore later bound separately. Dr Christopher Wright

Language(s): Greek

Ioannes III Scholastikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (525-577), Collectio LXXXVII capitulorum

Defective at the beginning and end: this continues the text begun in MS Ee.4.29: ed. Pitra, pp. 394-398

Incipit: || f. 1r ἢ νοσοκομεῖον· ἢ ὅσα τοιαῦτα ὁμνυόντων τῶν διοικούντων παρουσία τοῦ ἐπισκόπου

Explicit: f. 6v οὐκ ἔλαττον δὲ τῶν πέντε τοῦ χρυσίου λιτρῶν||

TLG 5358.002

CPG 7551

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (FHHF), of medium thickness and quality.

Extent: Codex: i + 6 + i leaves. 260-272 × 200 mm.

Foliation: The fragment is foliated in Arabic numerals with the numbers [i] + 1-6 + [ii], in pencil, recto, lower right.

Foliation: There is also foliation in Greek numerals, with the numbers 361-366 (τξαʹ-τξϛʹ), in brown ink, recto, upper right.

Foliation: There is also foliation in Arabic numerals with the numbers 370-375, in red crayon, recto, upper right.

Collation

This fragment consists of a single quire, a quaternion.

Quire 1^8-2 ff. 1-6 The last two folios have been lost, with loss of text.

There is a quire signature in Greek numerals at the beginning of the quire, in brown ink, recto, upper right, giving the number 47 (μζʹ).

Condition

There are significant tears across f. 6, and one corner of f. 2 has been lost. Some of this damage has been repaired with paper patches. There are smaller tears to the edges of other folios. Iron-gall corrosion has created holes through f. 1, and there is slight pest damage. There is creasing, water staining and areas of dirt.

Layout

Two columns of 29 lines. 85 × 54 mm. Pricking sometimes survives in the lower margin, but much has been lost to cropping. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 1, type Leroy 01C2c. Text sometimes hangs from the lines and is sometimes written along them.

Hand(s)

The manuscript was copied in upright Mi-Fettaugen-style mixed minuscule script, in brown ink, with significant variation in letter size and some flourishing of tails into the margin.

Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings appear only at the end of lines. Breathings are both angular and round and mute iota is absent. Use of the double dot is functional only. Accents are sometimes joined to abbreviations.

Punctuation used includes the lower, middle and upper points, lower comma and full stop.

Decoration

Sections begin with simple minor initials in red ink.

Binding

20th-century full leather binding over millboards, with plain pastedowns and separate tipped endleaves. The folios are tipped together. The classmark in tooled in gold on the left board.

282 × 213 × 11 mm.

History

Origin: The manuscript to which this belongs was probably copied in the first half of the 12th century, as suggested by the style of script.

Provenance and Acquisition

The manuscript to which this fragment belongs was owned by John Moore (b. 1646, d. 1714), bishop of Ely : number 12 in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now MS Oo.7.50(2), compiled by Thomas Tanner after the publication of Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (1697).

Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I .

Additional Information

Availability

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Bibliography

A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge Catalogue of manuscripts (Ee-Ff), (Cambridge, 2: Ee-Ff, Cambridge University Press, 1857)

The Greek Manuscripts of John Moore and Etienne Baluze Codices Manuscripti, Jackson, Donald F. (56/57, 29-42, 2006)

Repertorium der Handschriften des byzantinischen Rechts., Burgmann, LudwigSchminck, AndreasGetov, Dorotei (Frankfurt am Main, 3, Löwenklau-Gesellschaft, 2017)

Funding of Cataloguing

The Polonsky Foundation

Digital Images

Cambridge Digital Library

Abbreviations

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Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

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