Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Palladius: historia lausiaca, etc.

Authors

• Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430 (http://viaf.org/viaf/61550437)
• Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700 (http://viaf.org/viaf/314808225)
• Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373 (http://viaf.org/viaf/105155222)
• Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, approximately 310-403 (http://viaf.org/viaf/13651211)
• Sophronius, Saint, Patriarch of Jerusalem, approximately 560-approximately 638 (http://viaf.org/viaf/20473427)

Other related names

• 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

3
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• Call/Accession-number: MS 3 1141.F
• deRicci: 3

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Place

Undetermined

Summary

This manuscript is a hagiological miscellany of accounts and sayings of desert monks of the third through fifth centuries, with the Historia Lausiaca of Palladius comprising about half the volume. Text is missing at the beginning, in the middle (after fol. 48), and at the end. The manuscript is written in Greek minuscule on paper whose watermark suggests a date of the second quarter or middle of the fourteenth century, and it is decorated simply with red initials and geometric headbands in brown and red ink.

Watermark

Axe, similar to Likhachev 3747 (1348), Briquet Hache 7486 (1326-1333), and Piccard 122129-30 (1354)

Extent

Ii+130+ii; 271 x 195 mm bound to 290 x 215 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-4 (8), 5 (8, -8), 6 (8, -1 -2 -3), 7-16 (8), 17 (8, -7 -8)

Signatures

Quires 1-4 and 6-16 signed, lower right last verso, all with Greek numerals in ink (last leaf of quire 5 missing); signatures added after the loss of at least one quire at the beginning of the text

Support

Paper

Binding

Eighteenth-century half calf; gilt spine title MSS Greek Commentary; front hinge broken and front flyleaves detached

Layout

Written in one column of thirty lines; ruled in hardpoint on selected leaves, with vertical bounding lines; written area: 205-210 x 150-155 mm

Decoration

Narrow rectangular headbands with geometric patterns in the ink of the text and red, some with zoomorphic finials; initials in red with penwork in red, some with zoomorphic additions; marginal numbers in red in part of the Historia Lausiaca (fols. 6-38)

Script

Greek minuscule

Provenance

• Formerly held in the library of the monastery of Panagia Tatarna, Eurytania, central Greece (seventeenth-century (?) inscription in ink, fol. 1r); formerly owned by Sir Richard Cox (Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1703-1707); gift of his grandson Henry Hamilton Coxe Esq. (late eighteenth-century inscription in ink, front flyleaf), 1799
   

Keywords

• Accounts
• 14th century
• Greek
• Greece
• Church Fathers
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Palladius, Prooemium ad historiam Lausiacam (partial)
• fol. 1r — Palladius, Historia Lausiaca, Table of contents
• fol. 3r — Palladius, Epistula ad Lausum
• fol. 3v — Palladius, Historia Lausiaca
• fol. 66v — Life of Paul the Theban
• fol. 70r — Anastasius Sinaita, Miracle story
• fol. 71v — Story about Philentolos
• fol. 72v — Apophthegmata patrum
• fol. 106v — Athanasius, Syntagma doctrinae ad monachos
• fol. 109r — Epiphanius, Treatise on the prophets
• fol. 113v — Pseudo-Dorotheos, Treatise on martyrdom of the seventy disciples and on the twelve disciples
• fol. 119r — Sophronius, Vita Mariae Aegyptiacae (partial)

Decorations

• fol. 44v — Decorated initial I with bird
• fol. 55v — Decorated initial A with bird
• fol. 55v — Manicule
• fol. 66v — Geometric headband
• fol. 72v — Geometric headband
• fol. 94r — Geometric headband with zoomorphic finial
• fol. 106v — Geometric headband with zoomorphic finials
• fol. 109r — Geometric headband with zoomorphic finials
• fol. 113v — Geometric headband with zoomorphic finials
• fol. 115v — Geometric headband with zoomorphic finials
• fol. 119r — Decorative headband