Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Consists of a compilation of 19 chapters of elements of theology by Grēgorēs Saraphēs, aka Geōrgios, an important representative of Greek Enlightenment, born in Ayvalık (Balıkesir İli, Turkey).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 28-33 lines per page; last quire (pp. 111-126) inserted in mid 19th-century; the manuscript is written by two different hands (the first of early 19th-century discernible on pp. 1-98 of the main text and the second in mid 19th-century visible on pp. [3] (title), [5]-[6] (preface), [7]-[9] (table of contents), and pp. 98-126; pagination and some additions by a modern hand; without signatures; pp. 38-39 are blank; former owner's penciled inscription on first leaf reads: "Ek tōn tou papa Athanasiou ephēmeriou tēs en Kydōniais katō Pa/nagias"; stamp on pp. [1] and [3] reads: "Vivliothēkē Geōrgiou V. Parapanhidē"; notes on pp. 117- 119. The preface is signed by the editor of the manuscript, S.A. Vyzantios.

Binding note

Bound in an early 19th-century brown leather (slightly) worn, decorated in blind.

Language note

Greek.

Source acquisition

Purchase: Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2013-9.

OCLC

1340313620

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