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Title

Addresses and letters

Authors

• Dokeianos, Ioannes
• Gregoras, Nicephorus, 1295-1359 or 60
• Gregory II, of Cyprus, Patriarch of Constantinople, 1241-1290

Call number

Ms. Codex 137
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915517613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122470215
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551761

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Greek

Origin

Date

ca. 1550-1599

Summary

Contains eleven addresses and letters by Ioannes Dokeianos (Johannes Docianus). The first is an encomium to Constantine Palaiologos. Also includes a prosphonemation to Theodoros Porphyrogenetos; and a letter to Helen, daughter of Demetrios Palaiologos. Also contains works by Nicephorus Gregoras: his monodies on the deaths of Emperor Andronicus II and of the Great Logothete, Theodore Metochites (the first two sections of Book X of his Histories, Rōmaikē historia); and a letter to John Cantacuzene as Great Domestic. Also contains two works of Patriarch Gregorios II of Constantinople (1283-1289): his encomium on St. Dionysius the Areopagite and his encomium on the sea.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Heading for first work: Iōannou dokianou enkōmion eis ton basilea kōnstantinon ton palaiologon.
   
• Cover title: Diaphorōn enkōmia kai epistolai.
   

Extent

105 leaves : 205 x 148 (152 x 94) mm. bound to 213 x 151 mm

Foliation

Paper, 105; [x], [1-95]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards. Some splitting of the binding between quires. Stains on the cover. Spine shows signs of wear. Includes at least three different types of paper.

Script

Written in a cursive script by various hands.

Provenance

• Formerly Ms. 51 of Notre Dame de Pilar, Saragossa; possibly the same manuscript that belonged to Andreas Darmarios Epidaurios Lakon, used by Martin Crusius in 1584.
   
• Acquired (Colton Fund), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Orthodox Eastern Church
• Byzantine literature

Genres

• Codices
• Orations
• Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Byzantine
• Literature -- Prose
• Paper
• Greece

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