Add MS 34060, ff 12-199v

ff 12r-198r Matthew Blastares, Collectio alphabetica (TLG 3237.001; PG 144.953). Preceded on ff 11r-v by a single leaf of a table of contents, added later. The table proper, as usual, follows the preface (ff 23r-28r). lnserted in the body of the work are the following:

ff 55r-v (Included in the old foliation as μγ.) Extract from Georgius Hamartolus, Chronicon (PG 100.545), Book 3, 151-155, illustrating Blastares, B. Cap. 4 (περὶ τῶν βαπτιζομένων ἐξ ἰουδαίων), with the story of the Jew who was baptized with sand in the desert (cf. John Moschus, Pratum Spirituale (TLG 2856.001; PG 87.3), cap. 176).

ff 151r-152v (Νot in the old foliation.) Ἀκολουθία τοῦ ἁγίου μύρου, Office of the Holy Myrrh (cf. Goar, Euchologion 1647, p. 628).

f 162v Plan of a circular Labyrinth, with a reference to one which Solomon designed and, in another hand, a notice, taken from the Etymologicum Magnum (TLG 4099.001) of the Labyrinth of Crete and of the metaphorical use of the word by St. Gregory of Nazianzus. On the back of a leaf containing the Paschal table of Blastares, lit. P.

ff 163r-v (Not in the old foliation.) Circular table for finding Easter, over which, but upon a slip of paper pasted down on the leaf, is inscribed ποίημα κυροῦ νηκηφόρου τοῦ ξανθοπούλου, i.e. Nicephorus Xanthopulus.

ff 198v-199v Enumeration in verse by Matthew Blastares of the ecclesiastical officia at Constantinople, followed by a similar poem on the officials of the court, entitled τὰ βασιλικὰ ὀφφίκια (cf. PG 157.129, 236). The present copy, however, has 30 additional lines after the second poem, headed Ἐπίλογος.