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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

• fols. 1r-13v: "Ammōniou tou philosophou tou hermeiou, prolegomena eis tēn philosophian. Mellontas hēmas archesthai philosophōn logōn, anagkaion esti mathein."
• fols. 14r-59v: "Pinax syn theō tōn philosophōn tou makariōtatou iōannou monachou kai presvyterou tou damaskēnou. a'. Peri gnōseōs." There is a table of contents at the beginning (fol. 14r-v), the text begins on fol. 15r: "tō hosiōtatō kai theotimētō kosma ... To men stenon tēs dianoias."
• fols. 60r-154r: "Hoti akatalēpton to theion ... iōannou tou damaskēnou ekdosis akrivēs tēs orthodoxou pisteōs. Theon oudeis heōrake." There is a table of contents at the beginning (fol. 60r-v), the text begins on fol. 61r.
• fols. 154v-155r: "Anatolikoi men oun eisin hoi anemoi kaikias, apēliōtēs kai heuros; ho men apo tēs therinēs." Treatise on the origin and names of the winds, with a diagram (fol. 154v).
• fols. 155v-159r: "Ekthesis pisteōs othodoxou peri tēs hagias triados kai peri tēs theias ensarkou oikonomias ... Germanou tou hagiōtatou patriarchou kōnstantinoupoleōs. Pisteuō eis hena theon patera pantokratora." Germanos I, patriarch of Constantinople, unpublished text on the cult of icons and the seven ecumenical councils.
• fols. 159r-169v: "Tou hagiou epiphaniou episkopou kyprou; hoti pasōn haireseōn mēteres kai prōtotypa tessara... tōn hēmerōn tou adam." John of Damascus, De haeresibus. PG 94:677-780.
• fols. 169v-178r: "Timotheou presvyterou tēs megalēs ekklēsias peri diaphoras tōn proserchomenōn tē hagia hemōn kai eusevei pistē. Treis taxeis heuriskōmen ... katholikē kai apostolikē ekklēsia." Timothy of Constantinople, De receptione haereticorum. PG 86: 12-67 (cf. CPG 7016).
• fols. 178r-181v: "Synodikon ektethen en kōnstantinoupolei para iōannou aoidimou patriarchou hierosolymōn: peri phrangōn kai tōn loipōn latinōn. Mechri men sergiou tou eusevous patriarchou kōnstantinoupoleōs." Pseudo-John, patriarch of Jerusalem, unpublished text on the Franks and Latins.
• fols. 181v-201r: "Peri episkopōn metavantōn apo poleōs eis polin ek tēs theodōrētou ekklēsiastikēs historias. Petros ho apo antiocheōn themeliōsas tē ekklēsian eis tēn rōmaiōn." Excerpts from theological treatises by Maximos the Confessor. Anastasios Sinaites, John of Damascus, and others.
• fols. 201r-220r: "Apophthegmata philosophōn kata stoicheion ētoi tou hagiou nikōnos: Archontōn tryphē kai methē ... to meta syneseōs aplaston." Unpublished florilegium of philosophical texts, extracted and arranged alphabetically by the monk Nikon.
• fols. 220v-221r: "Peri platōnos tou hellēnos en tois tōn paterōn pheretai diēgēmasin." Unidentified treatise on the philosopher Plato.
• fol. 221r-v: "Korax ginetai para to karon to melan." Unidentified text on the etymology of several words.
• fol. 222r: "Stauroi petron kymvachon en rhōmē nerōn." Michael Psellos, poem 90. L.G. Westerink, Michaelis Pselli poemata (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1992), pp. 461-463; written by a later hand.

Notes

• Physical description: I (modern) + 222+I' (modern) folios; 16.9 x 11.6 cm (13.2 x 9.5 cm); 30-32 long lines per page. Arabic paper (bombycine). Modern foliation in pencil in the outside corner of the upper margins. Quire marks by a modern hand in pencil for the purpose of rebinding, the final quire lacks the last two folios, which may have been blank.
• Manuscript is written by one scribe using brown ink in the second half of the 13th century. Initials in pale reddish brown (red from fol. 201 on). A 16th-century hand wrote the poem on fol. 222r (in dark brown ink with red initial letters) and replacement text (on the upper right part of the page) on fol. 137r. Some notes by two different hands of the 14th and 16th centuries. One tall leafy initial outlined in brown ink and occasional strips, all in brown ink, in the hand of the scribe. The ornament of the strips is a running ribbon design outlined against a pale brown background (fol. 15r).

Binding note

Modern binding (19th century); half vellum and green cloth over binder's board, with red and white end bands. Spine title: FILOSOPHIA TESTO GRECO.

Source acquisition

Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund for the Princeton University Library in 2003.

Publications about

Kotzabassi, Sofia. Greek manuscripts at Princeton, sixth to nineteenth century: a descriptive catalogue. Princeton, N.J. : Department of Art and Archaeology and Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University : in association with Princeton University Press, 2010.

Cite as

Greek Manuscripts. MS. 180, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

Princeton MS. 180

OCLC

1046661255

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