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Add MS 37009
- Record Id:
- 040-002055529
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002055520
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001047.0x000227
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 37009
- Title:
- Nomocanon of Manuel Malaxos, compiled for Joasaph, Metropolitan of Boeotia
- Scope & Content:
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Nomocanon of Manuel Malaxos, compiled for Joasaph, Metropolitan of Boeotia. In 390 chapters. The text differs considerably from the other manuscripts of this text (Burney MS 55, Harley MS 5554, Add. MS 17471). Preface inc. Θησαυρὸς κεκρυμμένος καὶ πηγὴ ἐσφραγισμένη, text inc. Πρέπει τὸν κριτὴν ἤγουν τὸν ἀρχιερέα. The last chapter is entitled Ἕτερον διαζύγιον ὅταν δαιμονίζεται ὁ ἄνδρας.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002055520
040-002055529 - Is part of:
- Add MS 37001-37012 : Dawes Manuscripts
Add MS 37009 : Nomocanon of Manuel Malaxos, compiled for Joasaph, Metropolitan of Boeotia - Hierarchy:
- 032-002055520[0009]/040-002055529
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 37001-37012
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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384 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_37009 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Greek, Modern - Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1562
- End Date:
- 1562
- Date Range:
- 1562
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff ii + 384. One unfoliated blank flyleaf at the beginning, followed by f ii, and two unfoliated blank flyleaves at the end. A number of leaves were bound out of order, and the foliation reflects the correct order of the text: thus f 6 follows f 1, and f 57 follows f 50.
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm.
Ruling: 140 x 90 mm, 17 lines per page.
Binding: Wooden boards covered with stamped leather (possibly 17th century).
Scribe: Μανουὴλ Μαλαξός, Repertorium 1A, no. 250.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Greece (Boeotia). The preface is dated 5 March 7071 (i.e. 1562).
Provenance:
On f 384r is the anathema, dated 1646: Τῶ παρῶν νόμιμον ἐκλελεγμένον εἰς φράσιν πεζὴν ὁνίσθει πρὸς ἀ[σπρων] σι. δήλον ὅτι μετὰ τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας τὰ στάμενα καὶ ἐπροσυλώθη ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ ἠ τις τὸ λάβη καὶ θεωρήση ἔσω διὰ τινὰ ὑπὀθεσι ἔστω εὐλογημένος σὰν τὸ ἐπιτρέψη· ἡ δὲ φανῆ καν...(?) καὶ τὸ κρατίση καὶ τὸ ἀπονξενόση ἐκ τῆς ἐκκλησίας νὰ ἐχη τὰς ἀρᾶς τῶν τι καὶ η ἁγίων θεοφόρων πατέρων καὶ τὴν πἀναγνον θεοτοκὸν ἀντίδηκην ἐν ἡμέρα κρίσεως καὶ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων ἀμήν. ἐπὶ ἔτει αχμς [1646] ἐσταχώθη.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Rev. John Samuel Dawes, chaplain at Corfu, 8 October 1904.
- Administrative Context:
- Greece (Boeotia). The preface is dated 5 March 7071 (i.e. 1562).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, London 1907, p. 280.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 68.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Joasaph, Metropolitan of Boeotia, 16th century
Malaxos, Manuel, scholar and historian, 16th century
Muzakas, Theodoros