Description of Library Company, 2: Zonaras, Lexicon in greek contributor Emma Ricciardi cataloger Amey Hutchins Council on Library and Information Resources Library Company These images and the content of Library Company 2: Zonaras, Lexicon in greek are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, The Library Company of Philadelphia has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Library Company 2: Zonaras, Lexicon in greek. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. 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 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). United States Philadelphia Library Company 2 2 MS 2 2224.Q 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. Ancient Greek (to 1453) Zonaras, Lexicon in greek Zonaras, Joannes, active twelfth century, attributed name former owner Panteleĭmonov monastyrʹ (Athos, Greece) former owner Cox, Richard, 1650-1733 former owner Coxe, Henry Hamilton 1r Gamma (partial) 2v Delta 16r Epsilon 43r Zeta 51r Eta 58r Theta 63r Iota 68v Kappa 77v Lambda 81v Mu 87r Nu 90v Xi 91r Omicron 100r Pi 116r Rho 120v Sigma 129r Tau 132v Upsilon 135v Phi 137v Chi 140r Psi 141v Omega

Parchment

 i+144+iv; 190 x 135 mm bound to 200 x 145 mm Modern foliation in ink, upper right recto

1-18 (8)

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

Written in one column of twenty-nine lines; ruled in hardpoint with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 140 x 100 mm Greek minuscule; scribe: Gregorios (N. Kavrus-Hoffmann) 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

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

Not Constantinople (N. Kavrus-Hoffmann); first half 13th century (N. Kavrus-Hoffmann)

Undetermined 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 Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Glossary 13th century Greek Greece Grammar