Μανουὴλ τοῦ μεγάλου χαρτοφύλακος τοῦ Ξανθινοῦ τὰ τῶν γάμων γράμματα ἤτοι τὰ σχἐδη. Cf. Add MS 37011, but with different wording and without the table on the baptism. A similar table in more classical Greek is printed with Manuel Xanthinus's name in some Heirmologia
Prayers: on a new abbot, ἐπὶ προχειρήσεως ἡγουμένου; on someone who is leaving, εἰς τὸν μέλλοντα ἀποδημῆσαι διὰ ξηρᾶς ἢ διὰ θαλάσσης; for the ill, εἰς ἀσθενῆ, f 105r-108r. Other hands added the following: Service on the blessing of the waters, ff 108r-112r; prayer on any illness, ff 112r-v.
Gospel of Mark, ff 95v-152r, preceded by capitula, ff 94r-v, and a pen drawing of St Mark the Evangelist, f 4v, and followed by capitula, ff 152v-154v, and a pen drawing of St Luke the Evangelist, f 155v.
Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts)
Scope & Content:
This part was copied by a hand described as 'Continental-looking' (unpublished notes by Michael Gullick). The copy of De Architectura (On Architecture) derives from an English version of the text (see Texts and Transmission (1983), p. 443). Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Palladius (fl. 4th century), D...