Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Zonaras, Lexicon in greek

Authors

• Zonaras, Joannes, active twelfth century, attributed name (http://viaf.org/viaf/307483250)

Other related names

• Panteleĭmonov monastyrʹ (Athos, Greece), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/152142806)
• Cox, Richard, 1650-1733, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/50657462)
• Coxe, Henry Hamilton, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

2
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 2
• Call/Accession-number: MS 2 2224.Q

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Place

Undetermined

Summary

This manuscript is a copy from the first half of the thirteenth century on parchment in Greek minuscule of most of the short version of the lexicon traditionally attributed to Joannes Zonaras. The beginning of the text is missing; the first entries present are toward the end of the words beginning with gamma. Quire 6 is signed 12, another indication of material missing at the beginning of the manuscript. Rubrication and simple division bars separate sections determined by the first two letters of the words.

Notes

• Paper flyleaves, eighteenth-century with binding
   
• Former shelfmark Yi 2 2224 (Library Company bookplate inside front cover)
   
• Notes in Greek by later hands on the end flyleaves
   

Extent

I+144+iv; 190 x 135 mm bound to 200 x 145 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1-18 (8)

Signatures

Quires 6-16 signed 12-22 with Greek numerals, lower left first recto and lower right last verso; quires 17-18 signed illegibly

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century half calf; gilt spine title MSS Greek Commentary; spine and front cover attached to back cover but not to text block, with front flyleaf detached

Layout

Written in one column of twenty-nine lines; ruled in hardpoint with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 140 x 100 mm

Decoration

Rubrication, initial letters of entries, and marginal indications of word gender in red ink throughout; simple division bars ornamented with knots and stylized semi-palmette finials in red and brown between groups of words starting with the same two letters

Script

Greek minuscule; scribe: Gregorios (N. Kavrus-Hoffmann)

Provenance

• Probably formerly held at the library of Panteleĭmonov monastyrʹ (Athos, Greece; eighteenth-century (?) inscription, third flyleaf at the end of the manuscript); formerly owned by Sir Richard Cox (Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1703-1707); gift of his grandson Henry Coxe Esq. (late eighteenth-century inscription in ink, front flyleaf), 1799
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2103, no. 2.
• Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda, "Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America, Part VIII: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Library Company of Philadelphia," Manuscripta 58, no. 1 (2014), pp. 55-60 (article pp. 38-73).

Keywords

• Glossary
• 13th century
• Greek
• Greece
• Grammar

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Gamma (partial)
• fol. 2v — Delta
• fol. 16r — Epsilon
• fol. 43r — Zeta
• fol. 51r — Eta
• fol. 58r — Theta
• fol. 63r — Iota
• fol. 68v — Kappa
• fol. 77v — Lambda
• fol. 81v — Mu
• fol. 87r — Nu
• fol. 90v — Xi
• fol. 91r — Omicron
• fol. 100r — Pi
• fol. 116r — Rho
• fol. 120v — Sigma
• fol. 129r — Tau
• fol. 132v — Upsilon
• fol. 135v — Phi
• fol. 137v — Chi
• fol. 140r — Psi
• fol. 141v — Omega