Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Fragment of a Menologium

Authors

• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 (https://viaf.org/viaf/305214868)
• Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, approximately 310-403 (https://viaf.org/viaf/13651211)
• Gregorius Antiochenus (https://viaf.org/viaf/206760880)
• Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint (https://viaf.org/viaf/46897094)

Other related names

• Blenheim Palace (England). Sunderland Library, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/710145857895923020937)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 156
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 2

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Place

Greece

Summary

This manuscript is part of a larger manuscript in Greek of sermons, with rubrics containing attributions to Saint John Chrysostom, Gregorius Antiochenus, and Gregory of Nazianzus, and indications of appropriate feast days. Each reading is numbered in Greek numerals, and the readings in this fragment are selected numbers between 16 (the probable end of 15 is at the beginning of the volume) and 27 [fol. 34r].

Extent

Iii+42+iii; 345 x 255 mm bound to 355 x 280 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain, with at least single leaves missing after fols. 11, 14, 33

Support

Parchment

Binding

Early nineteenth-century English brown morocco; authors and date (sec. XI) in gilt on spine; wooden boards; marbled pastedowns and endleaves

Layout

Written in two columns of thirty-eight lines; frame-ruled in hard point, with double vertical bounding lines; pricking visible; written area: 255 x 190 mm

Decoration

Rubrication and three- to five-line initials in red at the beginning of each numbered section; one-line initials in red at left margin of each column throughout

Script

Greek Minuscule

Provenance

• Dukes of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Sunderland Library sale, London, April 17, 1882, II, no. 2820; to Ridler; Sale, Anderson Galleries, Dec. 9, 1929, no. 347; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• 11th century
• 12th century
• Greece
• Greek
• Sermon
• Collection of Sermons

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Text lacking beginning / Saint John Chrysostom]
• fol. 2v — 16: Hypomnemata
• fol. 9v — 17
• fol. 11r — 19: [For Easter Saturday / Gregorius Antiochenus]
• fol. 15v — 20: [Homily for Easter Saturday]
• fol. 25r — 21: [Gregory of Nazianzus]
• fol. 30r — 25: [Homily/Saint John Chrysostom]
• fol. 33r — 26: [Gregorius Antiochenus]
• fol. 34r — 27: [Gregory of Nazianzus]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Print catalog entry
• fol. 2v — Eight-line red initial Epsilon
• fol. 9v — Three-line red initial Pi
• fol. 11r — Four-line red initial Epsilon
• fol. 15v — Three-line red initial Epsilon
• fol. 18r — Marginal drawing
• fol. 34r — Three-line red initial Phi
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Print catalog entry