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032-002168124

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Add MS 8240

Title:

Miscellany of theological, philosophical and grammatical texts in prose and verse

Scope & Content:

Miscellany of theological, philosophical and grammatical texts in prose and verse, including: Perdicas, protonotary of Ephesus, Ecphrasis on Sundays in Jerusalem, in 260 political verses. Single-line sayings, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι, collected from various works in verse attributed to Manuel Chrysoloras (f 21v). Distichs of Cato, translated into Greek by Maximos Planoudes. Interpretation of the dreams experienced in different phases of the moon. Additional troparia (Kathismata and an exaposteilarion) from an anonymous canon contra latinos, copied by Karatzas. Extracts from John Chrysostom. Five kathismata on the dogmas of the Latin Church, copied by Karatzas. Anonymous treatise on the meaning of Greek prepositions, imperfect at the end: title Περὶ τῶν σημαινομένων τῶν προθέσεων ἐν. Collection of sayings. Opinions of the Persians and Egyptians on various dreams. Ἐκ τῶν Περσῶν καὶ Αἰγυπτίων περὶ διαφόρων εἰδῶν. Untitled text attributed to Samuel Kapasoules, Patriarch of Alexandria (1710-1723). Three notes, partly relating to the Monastery of Galata, dated in the 1740s, and a manuscript at the Monastery of Tzaousi, Thessalonica. Portions of a liturgical manuscript, including prayers and sermons, imperfect. Ἑρμηνεῖαι πῶς πρέπει νὰ ψάλλωνται αἱ καταβασίαι τοῦ ὅλου ἐνιαυτοῦ, idiomelon, inc. Ἡρώδης ὁ παράνομος, see Menaion Rome II, 717, 725. Prayer. Brief Vita of St Juliane, BHG 962z. λόγος περὶ ὑπερηφανείας αἰσχρᾶς καὶ ματαίας. περὶ κενοδοξίας, κεφ. θ΄. λόγος σωτήριος καὶ ὠφέλιμος ἐκ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου καὶ διδάσκ λλ τ έκ. Various topics on Christian life and ethics, imperfect.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Greek, Modern

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

18th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 149 + iii. Old pagination '286-467’ (ff 1-90).
Dimensions: 150 x 93mm.
Binding: Half calf leather binding with green paper and leather corners, early 19th century.
Scribes: Written by several Greek hands.

Custodial History:

Owned by Nikolaos Karatzas (fl. 1730-1784), logothete of the Patriarch of Constantinople, who copied ff 91-91v and also annotated the volume. Armorial bookplate of the Hon. Frederic North, inscribed in ink 'No 421’ (listed as such in Add MS 16572, f 46). '550’, '533’ and 'u.a.L/10/A’ in pencil at top of front pastedown. '421’ in pencil at the foot of f 1.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased, together with Add MSS 8225, 8234-8236, 8238, 8239, 8241, 8242, from R. H. Evans, 8 December 1830, lot 550 (part).

Publications:

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 9.
Documente privind istoria României din colectii Britanice, exhibition catalogue, ed. by V. Cândea and P. Cernovodenu (Bucharest, 1982), no. 29.
G. K. Papazoglou, 'Χειρόγραφα τοῦ Νικολάου Καρατζᾶ εἰς τὴν βιβλιοθήκην τοῦ Βρεττανικοῦ Μουσείου (ἄλλοτε χειρόγραφα Guilford)', Ἐπετηρὶς τῆς Ἑταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν, 49 (1994-98), pp. 247-248, no. 8.

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