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Subject(s)

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

Notes

• Housed in a box with the other manuscripts that are part of Princeton MS. 215.
• Collation: leaves folded in folio, ff. 1-10 form a single gathering, the thirty-second one of the original volume; ff. 11-16 are consecutive leaves from a single gathering; ff. 17-19 are also consecutive leaves from a single gathering; ff. 20-29 form a single unsigned gathering [possibly the thirty-eighth one in the original volume]; ff. 30-38 form a single gathering, the outermost bifolium of which is now missing. [N.B., ff. 11-16 are numbered Ιακ α through Ιακ ς in the upper outer corners; ff. 17-27 are numbered 4 through 16 in the lower outer corners; f. 20 is numbered 38 in the upper outer corner; ff. 30r-38v are numbered Θ 1 through Θ 9 in the upper outer corners.)
• Layout: 26 lines per page (justification 207 x 133 [61+11+61] mm.), ruling E 34E2,interlinear distance 9 mm.
• Script: written in an archaizing imitation of the Hodegon style, of the sort current on Mount Athos ca. 1600 AD.

Contents

• (1) Μηνὶ ἀπριλίῳ κγ'· Ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸν ἅγιον μεγαλομάρτυρα Γεώργιον [BHG 681;ed. PG 97, 1169-1192]: fols. 1r-5r; inc. κατακαυχώμενον· τὸν ἐπῃρμένον (καὶ) ὑπεραιρόμενον· τὸν ὑψηγοροῦντα (καὶ) λέγοντα, des. ὅτι ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις τοῦ σώζειν ἐν καιρῷ θλίψεως, οὐκ ἔστιν ἑτέρου, ἀλλ' ἢ μόνον αὐτοῦ τοῦ κ(υρίο)υ ἡμῶν Ι(ησο)ῦ Χ(ριστο)ῦ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ θ(εο)ῦ (καὶ) σ(ωτ)ή(ρο)ς ἡμ(ῶν)· δι' οὗ καὶ μεθ'οὗ πρέπει (καὶ) ἀξίως ἐποφείλεται τῷ συνανάρχῳ π(ατ)ρὶ καὶ τῷ ὁμοουσίῳ (καὶ) ζωοποιῷ πν(εύματ)ι, πᾶσα ἡ δόξα (καὶ) ἡ τιμὴ καὶ ἡ προσκύνησις· μεγαλωσύνη τεκαὶ μεγαλοπρεπεία· νῦν καὶ ᾀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰών(ων), ἀμήν.
• (2) Μηνὶ ἀπριλλί(ω) κε'· Ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸν ἅγιον κ(αὶ) πανεύφημον ἀπόστολον Μάρκον τὸν εὐαγγελιστὴν, εὐ(λ)ό(γησον, πάτερ) [BHG 1038; ed. PG 105, 284-300]: fols. 5r-10v; the end is lost; des. συναρπάζουσί τε σφοδρῶς [PG 105, 300A]
• (3) Μηνὶ ἀπριλίῳ λ'· Ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸν ἅγιον καὶ πανεύφημον ἀπόστολον Ἰάκωβον τὸν τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου [BHG 768; ed. PG 105, 80-100]: ff. 11r-16v; the beginning and end are lost; inc. ἐξισούμενος, ἀδελφὸς τὴν φύσιν [PG 105, 85B], des. Τί οὖν διανοηθῶμεν Ἡρῴδην ὡς εἰκὸς φάναι [PG 105, 96B].
• (4) Μηνὶ μαϊῷ κα'· Ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸν ἅγιον καὶ θεόστεπτον βασιλέα Κωνσταντῖνον τὸν μέγαν [BHG 368; ed. C. Simonides, The Panegyric of That Holy, Apostolic and Ηeaven Crowned King Constantine the Great, Composed by Constantine Acropoliti (London, 1853)]: ff. 17r-29v; the beginning and end are lost; inc. [τὸν] τοῦ φανέντος ἐν ἀέρι τύπον στ(αυ)ροῦ, το τάχος τεχνουργῆσαι διακελεύεται [Simonides, 14], des. ἐνὸν ἐκείνους αὐτοὺς μαρτυροῦντας αὐτῷ παρεισαγεῖν τὴν ἰσότητα [Simonides, 36].
• (5) Μηνὶ μαϊῷ κθ'· Ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὴν ἀγίαν ὁσιομάρτυρα καὶ θαυματουργὸν Θεοδοσίαν [BHG 1774a; unedited]: fols. 30r-38v; the beginning and end are lost; inc.ἀποστολικὴν φωνὴν ἐναλλάγδην εἰπεῖν, (καὶ) τὸ ἰσχυρότερον ἀσθενέστερον, des. κέρατις δ' ἐκ τῶν παρευρημέν(ων) ἐκεῖ ἀπανθρώπως αὐτῇ κιρνᾷ τὸ τοῦ θανάτου πο[τήριον].

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Source acquisition

Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

Cite as

Princeton MS. 215.6, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1375242275

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