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Title

S. John Chrysostom: Homilies

Authors

• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 (http://viaf.org/viaf/290494717)

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

1
(Philadelphia, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• Call-Accession-number: MS 1 1140.F
• deRicci: 1

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Place

Constantinople

Summary

This Greek manuscript of Saint John Chrysostom's homilies on Paul's Letter to the Ephesians and commentary on the Letter to Galatians was written in the first quarter of the tenth century, probably in Constantinople. The first four homilies on Ephesians are missing leaves; homilies 5-24 on Ephesians are complete; and the commentary on Galatians is missing leaves at the end. The beginning of each homily is marked with a simple decorated division bar and initial.

Notes

• Paper flyleaves with watermarks suggesting the sixteenth century (N. Kavrus-Hoffmann)
   
• Many leaves missing outer margin, without loss of text
   

Extent

Iv+178+iii; 378-380 x 245-250 mm bound to 395 x 265 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 1-4, 9-14, 14a-177, 5-8 (foliation now lower left verso after being rebound correctly)

Collation

1 (8, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8), 2 (8, -1 -5 -6 -7 -8), 3 (8, -3 -4 -5 -6), 4 (8, leaf in position 6 has been replaced -7), 5 (8, -3), 6-24 (8), 25 (8, -5 -6 -7 -8)

Signatures

Quires 5-25 are signed 35-55 in Greek numerals by the scribe, upper right first recto; quires 3-24 have later signatures 2-23 in Greek numerals, lower left last verso

Support

Parchment

Binding

Twentieth-century (after 1915) quarter leather, blind-stamped, with bare beveled wooden boards and two clasps

Layout

Written in two columns of thirty-nine or forty lines; ruled in hardpoint with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 280-285 x 160-180 mm

Decoration

Penwork initial at the beginning of each homily ornamented with knots and small geometric patterns; wavy division bars with finials

Script

Greek minuscule bouletée (N. Kavrus-Hoffmann)

Provenance

• 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. 1.
• Faye, C.U., continued and edited by W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 468, no. 1.
• Hemphill, Wesley L., Codex Coxianus of the Homilies of Chrysostom on Ephesians and His Commen­tary on Galatians (Norwood, Mass., 1916).
• 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. 41-54 (article pp. 38-73).

Keywords

• Commentary
• Collection of Sermons
• 10th century
• Greece
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [In epistulam ad Ephesios]
• fol. 1r — [Homily 1 (partial)]
• fol. 2r — [Homily 2 (partial)]
• fol. 9r — [Homily 3 (partial)]
• fol. 11v — [Homily 4]
• fol. 15v — [Homily 5]
• fol. 18v — [Homily 6]
• fol. 22r — [Homily 7]
• fol. 26v — [Homily 8]
• fol. 38r — [Homily 9]
• fol. 43r — [Homily 10]
• fol. 47r — [Homily 11]
• fol. 54r — [Homily 12]
• fol. 58r — [Homily 13]
• fol. 63v — [Homily 14]
• fol. 68v — [Homily 15]
• fol. 73v — [Homily 16]
• fol. 77v — [Homily 17]
• fol. 81v — [Homily 18]
• fol. 87r — [Homily 19]
• fol. 93v — [Homily 20]
• fol. 106v — [Homily 21]
• fol. 111v — [Homily 22]
• fol. 119r — [Homily 23]
• fol. 122v — [Homily 24]
• fol. 129v — [In epistulam ad Galatas commentarius (partial)]

Decorations

• fol. 11v — Decorated initial Kappa
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial Delta
• fol. 18v — Decorated initial Kappa
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial Epsilon
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial Pi
• fol. 38r — Decorated initial Alpha
• fol. 43r — Decorated initial Omicron
• fol. 47r — Decorated initial Alpha
• fol. 54r — Decorated initial Tau
• fol. 58r — Decorated initial Omicron
• fol. 64r — Decorated initial Epsilon
• fol. 68v — Decorated initial Omega
• fol. 73v — Decorated initial Omicron
• fol. 77v — Decorated initial Tau
• fol. 81v — Decorated initial Eta
• fol. 87r — Decorated initial Epsilon
• fol. 93v — Decorated initial Sigma
• fol. 106v — Decorated initial Kappa
• fol. 112r — Decorated initial Omega
• fol. 119r — Decorated initial Sigma
• fol. 122v — Decorated initial Pi