Cambridge, University Library, MS Nn.1.21
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12230
Contents
Language(s): Greek
TLG 2062.076
CPG 4383
PG 51, coll. 271-302
There is a lacuna due to the loss of a folio after f. 31.
TLG 2062.023
CPG 4329
BHGa 1700z; BHGn 2103i
PG 48, coll. 963-1054
Defective at the end, with lacunas
There are lacunas due to the loss of the lower part of f. 88, of two folios after f. 89, and of one folio after f. 91.
Defective at the beginning.
There is a lacuna due to the loss of a folio after f. 93.
There are lacunas due to the loss of three folios after f. 106, the detachment of what is now f. 53 from its correct position after f. 107, and the loss of another folio following this.
TLG 2062.079
CPG 4386
BHG 1952k
PG 51, coll. 321-338
TLG 2062.70
CPG 4377
PG 51, coll. 207-218
There is a lacuna due to the loss of a folio after f. 143
TLG 2062.071
CPG 4378
PG 51, coll. 217-226
There are lacunas due to the loss of a folio after f. 150 and of another after f. 156
TLG 2062.072
CPG 4379
PG 51, coll. 225-242
TLG 2062.026
CPG 4332
BHGn 939q-s
PG 49, coll. 249-276
Incomplete at the end (PG 49, col. 269, line 43), continues in MS Nn.1.22.
Physical Description
Collation
The manuscript consists of 24 quires, all of which are quaternia.
- Quires 1-38 ff. 1-24
- Quire 48-1 ff. 25-31 The last folio has been lost, with loss of text.
- Quires 5-68 ff. 32-47
- Quire 78+1 ff. 48-56 The detached f. 53 has been inserted loose in the wrong position and foliated in accordance with that position. Its correct location is directly after f. 107.
- Quires 8-98 ff. 57-71
- Quire 108+1 ff. 72-80 The previously detached f. 72 has been bound in the wrong position and foliated in accordance with that position. Its correct location is in MS Nn.1.22 , directly after f. 160.
- Quire 118 ff. 81-88
- Quire 128-3 ff. 89-93 The second, third and sixth folios have been lost, with loss of text.
- Quire 138-1 ff. 94-100 The first folio has been lost, with loss of text.
- Quire 148-2 ff. 101-106 The last two folios have been lost, with loss of text.
- Quire 158-3 ff. 107-111 The first, third and fourth folios have been lost, with loss of text. The third is misplaced as f. 53.
- Quires 16-198 ff. 112-143
- Quire 208-1 ff. 144-150 The first folio has been lost, with loss of text.
- Quire 218-2 ff. 151-156 The first and last folios have been lost, with loss of text.
- Quires 22-248 ff. 157-180
There is one early quire signature in Greek numerals at the end of Quire 2, in brown ink, verso, lower right, probably original to the production of the manuscript. The rest of this sequence has been lost to cropping.
These signatures have been duplicated or replaced by a second set in Greek numerals, in black or brown ink. Some of these have also been lost to cropping, although in some cases portions of their decoration survive. They survive in whole or in part on Quires 1-3, 5-10, 12-13, 15-16 and 22-23 (αʹ-γʹ, εʹ-ιʹ, ιβʹ-ιγʹ, ιεʹ-ιϛʹ, κβʹ-κγʹ). This is the same sequence that also partially survives in MS Nn.1.22
There are also modern quire signatures in Greek numerals at the beginning of each quire, in pencil, recto, lower right. They appear on Quires 4-6 and 8-24. The signature for Quire 5 (εʹ) erroneously appears on f. 33r, rather than f. 32r.
Condition
Layout
Two columns of 30 lines. 242 × 157 mm. Pricking does not survive. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 1, type Leroy 31C2a. Text is guided by the lines or hangs from them.
Hand(s)
The manuscript was copied in a mixed minuscule Perlschrift, slanting slightly to the right, in brown ink, with limited variation in letter size and some flourishing of tails into the lower margin, occasionally with ornamented tips (e.g. f. 116r). The same hand has added the headings, in Alexandrine majuscule script, in brown ink.
Syllabic abbreviations are not in use, apart from the horizontal stroke for nu, which appears only at the end of lines, while superscript word endings are also not used. Breathings are both angular and round and mute iota is usually absent but occasionally adscript. Use of the double dot is functional only, and nomina sacra are rarely accentuated, and usually only when more than three letters long or with enclitics. The double grave accent is in use. Circumflexes very rarely appear above breathings. Nomina sacra strokes are often decorated with an X-shape. Marginal quotation marks of different types are used.
Most majuscule forms are in use in the minuscule text, but not mu, upsilon or omega. The long-bowed beta is present, with a straight back and often angular loops.
Punctuation used includes the lower, middle and upper points, lower comma, question mark and full stop. The lower comma is rarely used, small pauses being indicated mostly by the lower point.
Decoration
Each homily begins with a major initial in brown ink, usually slightly ornamented. Enlarged minor initials in brown ink mark the beginning of paragraphs.
Very simple vignettes, line-fillers and other basic ornament in brown ink accompany the beginning and end of homilies. A crude, later vignette in brown ink with infill in translucent green paint precedes the beginning of the text (f. 1r).
Quatrefoil plaits in brown ink outline, sometimes with red paint infill, have been used to highlight certain points in the text (ff. 42r, 48r).
Additions
The scribe has placed marginal homily numbers alongside the beginning of each homily, marginal ὅρα, ὠραῖος and ση(μείωσαι) marks to highlight notable passages of text (e.g. ff. 15v, 21v, 29v), and occasionally sequences of numbers alongside sections of some homilies (ff. 58r-60r, 126v). At the beginning of each homily a later hand has placed homily numbers identical to those used by the original scribe in the upper margin, while another hand has placed counts of the number of folios in each homily here. There are brief marginal annotations in Greek by various later hands. The Greek alphabet has been repeatedly written out on ff. 109r and 110r. A prayer in Greek has been added on f. 128r, and an attempt made to erase it. A hand using black ink has overwritten faded original text in places.
There are numerous notes and pen trials in Greek by various later hands on f. i recto-i verso and on f. 1r. These include a series of notes of monthly receipts of money valued in aspers, two notes of ownership added by Ioannes Porphiros Chalasophoures, and his note of donation of the manuscript by himself and his wife Anastasia Sophelia to the Monastery of the Panagia Pantochara on Stamfani:-
- ‘Πορφιρος και σιχορισε αυτον [____]ενη το Κύριε’
- ‘Χαλασοφουρή ἐνε το βηβλήον ἐτούτο ἀμὴν’
- ‘[____]λϛʹ μἀ ἢ εʹ· ἐτούτο το βηβληω διδοἠ στὴν ἠπεραγἤαν Θεὸτόκον· ἠς τα Στροφἄδια· ἐγὸ Ιωάννης ὀ Πόρφιρος· ὀ Χαλασοφουρής μετα τὴν σημβηᾶ μου τὴν Ἀνὰστασία ἠ Σοφέλια ψηχὴ καὶ σόματος Κύριε βοῆθη σού μας· ἀμὴ’
Binding
18th-century full leather binding over couched-laminate boards, with marbled pastedowns and outer endleaves. The edges have been marbled in the same pattern as the pastedowns and endleaves. There are decoratve gold-tooled borders on both boards, with a crown motif, and gold tooling on the edges of the boards. The spine bears extensive decorative gold tooling, the classmark on labels, and the title ‘Chrysostomi varia’ and ‘Tom. II. M.S.’ tooled in gold on black leather labels.
346 × 259 × 65 mm.
Accompanying Material
A sheet of paper in Anthony Askew's hand has been pinned to f. [c] verso. This bears a transcription of the heading and incipit of the first homily, and page references for the contents of the manuscript to Henry Savile's 1612-1613 edition of the works of John Chrysostom. Occasional small marker slips of paper have been inserted loose between folios.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by Ioannes Porphiros Chalasophoures , and donated by him and his wife Anastasia Sophelia to the Monastery of the Panagia Pantochara (founded 1241) on Stamfani, in the Strofades, Greece. This is indicated by his notes on f. i verso.
Owned by the book collector Anthony Askew (1722-1774) ..
After Askew's death, the manuscript was sold by G. Leigh and J. Sotheby in the auction of his library in 1785 (MS Nn.4.2, lot 613), and bought by Richard Farmer for Cambridge University Library.
Additional Information
Availability
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Bibliography
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A catalogue of the manuscripts
preserved in the library of the University of
Cambridge, (Cambridge, 4: Ll-Oo, Cambridge University Press, 1861)
Codices Chrysostomici Graeci I
Codices Britanniae et Hiberniae, Aubineau, Michel (Paris, CNRS éditions, 1968)
Cambridge University Library: a
history, McKitterick, David (Cambridge, 2: The eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Codices Chrysostomici Graeci
VIII: I: Codices Ancyrae et Constantinopolis II:
Addenda et Corrigenda ad volumina I-IV, Barone, Francesca P.Voicu, Sever J. (Paris, CNRS éditions, 2018)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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