Cambridge, University Library, MS Ll.2.13
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12220
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Soden ε 521, Gregory-Aland 70.
TLG 0031.001
TLG 0031.002
TLG 0031.003
f. 141v blank
TLG 0031.004
TLG 2702.015
PG 37, 488; TLG 2022.059
ff. 184v-186v blank
Physical Description
Collation
The manuscript consists of 23 quaternions.
The original quire signature in Greek numerals in gold ink from αον (f. 3r) to κγον (f. 179r) remains in the middle of the lower margin of recto of the first and the verso of the last folio of each quire, except for εον and κγον only on the first recto.Condition
Layout
A single column of 23 lines (on ff. 3r, 53r, 86 and 142r about 11 lines were left vacant for miniatures). Written space: 190 × 90 mm. Pricking survives on the margins of the first quire. Ruled in red ink type Leroy 34D1. Text runs above the lines.
Hand(s)
The manuscript is written by the 15th-century Greek scholar and scribe Georgios Hermonymos (RGK I 61) in a minuscule script in pale brown ink.
Slanting slightly to the right, Hermonymos' hand shows cursive-like ductus without variation in letter size. Ligatures and abbreviations are rare. His script is characterized by the minuscules gamma, eta, xi, rho. Sigma telikon is in Z-shape and is found sometimes in the middle of the word. Breathings are curved; accents do not join to letters or breathings.
The running headlines, the marginal summaries, the quire signature and the texts on f. 184r are written in golden ink.
For further details on Georgios Hermonymos' script, see Kalatzi 2009, p. 111-132
Guillaume Budé added some marginal corrections to the text and maniculae (e.g. 17r, 33r, 40r).
Decoration
On ff. 3r, 53r, 86r and 142r the initials of each Gospel are elegantly decorated, painted alternately in red in a blue rectangle, or in blue on a red one. The initial beta on f. 3r bears the coat of arms of Guillaume Budé. The initials of the chapters are drawn in gold in rectangles one line high alternately in red or blue.
The initials of the paragraphs are gilded.
Additions
Some face profiles (e.g. 31r, 33v, 39v, 59v) are added in the margins, probably by Guillaume Budé.
A note, dated 'June 28, 1885', on the extent remains on the back board.
Binding
18th-century couched-laminate board binding covered in quarter mid-brown tanned calfskin with marbled paper on the sides.There is a red leather label on the spine with the title Quatuor Evangelia Graece tooled in gold. The classmark (Ll M.S. 2 13) is tooled directly on the spine. F. 1 is pasted on the board; f. 186 used to be pasted on the board, and traces from the marbled paper of the cover remain. The fore- top- and tail-edges are gilded. 294 × 191 × 48 mm.
History
The codex was copied by Georgios Hermonymos during his stay in Paris for Guillaume Budé (see Kalatzi 2009, p. 77) in the late 15th century.
Provenance and Acquisition
John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 666 (f. 2r) in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I (1660-1727) : donation bookplate engraved by John Pine (1690-1756) in 1736 on f. 1v.
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Bibliography
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Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten, 800-1600. I.
Grossbritannien Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik
;, Gamillscheg, ErnstHarlfinger, Dieter (Wien, Bd. 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie
der Wissenschaften, 1981)
Georgios Hermonymos, a 15th-century scribe scholar: an examination of
his life, activities and manuscripts, Kalatzi, Maria P. (London, 1998, PhD)
Hermonymos: a study in scribal, literary and teaching activities in the
fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries Hermonymos Studies in palaeography, Kalatzi, Maria P. (Athens, Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, 2009)
A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the library of the
University of Cambridge, (Cambridge, 4, Cambridge University Press, 1861)
Die griechischen Schreiber des Mittelalters und der Renaissance /
bearbeitet von Marie Vogel und Victor Gardthausen., Vogel, Marie (Leipzig, O. Harrassowitz, 1909)
La France des humanistes. Hellénistes II, Maillard, Jean-FrançoisFlamand, Jean-Marie (Turnhout, Brepols, 2010)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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