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

Title

Authors

• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004066.html)

Other related names

• Monē tou Timiou Prodromou (Serrai, Greece), former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/145523204)
• Ethnikē Vivliothēkē tēs Hellados, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/136996034)
• Ashburner, Walter, 1864-1936, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/2833007)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Constantinople

Summary

This large-format, tenth-century Greek manuscript on parchment consists of one leaf of the Wisdom of Solomon (fol. 1r-1v, 14:17 line 1-15:8 line 2) and ten leaves from Basil of Caesarea's Enarratio in prophetam Isaiam (fols. 2r-11v, 14:291 line 38-16:315 lines 3-4, but with one folio missing between folios 4 and 5 and four folios missing between folios 9 and 10), all from a much larger manuscript, codex Atheniensis 2641, National Library of Greece. The parent manuscript, which is an Old Testament with patristic commentaries, has a colophon recording that it was written by the scribe Joseph in Constantinople in 913-914. It is the earliest known dated manuscript written in minuscule bouletée. These separated leaves were identified by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffman by their script, ruling pattern, and correspondence with text lacunae in the parent manuscript.

Notes

• Modern flyleaves in 1980 binding; two paper and one parchment in front, one parchment and two paper in back
   
• Collation by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann
   

Extent

Foliation

Collation

Signatures

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Running title (Sophia Solom(onos)) in Alexandrian majuscule with alternating magenta red and blue letters; enlarged initials in magenta red (Wisdom of Solomon, fol. 1r-1v)

Script

Provenance

• Parent manuscript codex Atheniensis 2641 was made at Constantinople for the patrician Samonas by the scribe Joseph (colophon); donated by an unknown owner to the library of Monē tou Timiou Prodromou (monastery of Saint John the Baptist), Serrai, Greece; stolen from the monastery by Bulgarians in 1917; 1919, placed at the Ethnikē Vivliothēkē tēs Hellados (National Library of Greece), Athens; not clear when the fragment Lewis E 251 came to be separated from the parent manuscript; Walter Ashburner, Florence (1864-1942; effaced ex libris stamp, lower margin, fols. 1r, 11v); purchased by the Free Library from William H. Schnab of New York in 1959 with the Simon Gratz fund, who may have purchased it from Ashburner (Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffman)
   

Related resources

• Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda. "Lost and Found Folios of Codex Athens, National Library of Greece 2641: Philadelphia, Free Library, Fragment Lewis E 251," Rivista di studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, N.S. 42 (2005): 93-104.

Keywords

• Commentary
• 10th century
• Greek
• Turkey
• Biblical
• Church Fathers
• Fragment

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — The Wisdom of Solomon (partial)
• fol. 2r — Enarratio in prophetam Isaiam (partial)