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This manuscript is a copy dated 1493 of an eleventh-century collection of the Greek sermons of Philagathos of Cerami, also known as Theophanes Cerameus. It is written in Greek cursive script. It has decorative initials and some additional ornamentation in faded red or brown ink at the beginning of sermons or prayers, and occasional marginal corrections and notes. Three fifteenth-century Venetian miniatures on parchment are pasted into the manuscript, in one case over a page of text.
Support: Mixed; Extent: 313; 203 x 152 mm bound to 206 x 152 mm; Foliation: Early foliation in Greek characters in ink, upper right recto, beginning on modern fol. 5r and skipping modern fol. 18; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; references in this record are to modern foliation; Collation: 1 (6), 2-16 (8), 17 (6), 18 (10), 19 (6), 20 (10), 21 (6), 22 (10), 23 (6), 24 (10), 25 (6), 26 (10), 27 (6), 28 (10), 29 (6), 30 (10), 31 (6), 32 (10), 33 (6), 34 (10), 35 (6), 36 (10), 37 (6), 38 (10), 39 (6), 40 (5, +1 +2 +3 +4 +5)
One column of twenty-five lines; margins pressed into leaves with a frame; written area: 149 x 90 mm
Greek cursive
Three full-page fifteenth-century Venetian miniatures on vellum pasted in (fol. 4r possibly over notes, fol. 223r over text, fol. 235r on a blank leaf); initials and ornamental marginal decorations in brown or faded red; edges decorated with designs in red and brown ink
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Manuscript on glazed paper with parchment miniatures pasted in
One miniature (on f. 223r) has Latin prayers in humanistic bookhand visible on its verso
Note in ink pasted inside front cover gives date of composition as 1081 and date of copying as 1493
Description inside front cover mentions four miniatures; catalog description inside back cover advertises three
Origin in southern Italy assigned by De Ricci
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Southern Italy?
1493
Probably contemporary Greek monastic blind-stamped calf, with bosses; rebacked
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Label of dealer Joseph Baer and Co., Frankfurt, in inside front cover; University of Chicago Libraries before 1925 (embossed stamp in text in upper right corner of fol. 1 and effaced accession number in top margin of fol. 2r); Charles F. Gunther, Chicago (printed catalog description pasted inside back cover, Anderson, New York, 12 November 1925, I, number 173); John F. Lewis
Southern Italy?
1493
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Label of dealer Joseph Baer and Co., Frankfurt, in inside front cover; University of Chicago Libraries before 1925
This manuscript is a copy dated 1493 of an eleventh-century collection of the Greek sermons of Philagathos of Cerami, also known as Theophanes Cerameus. It is written in Greek cursive script. It has decorative initials and some additional ornamentation in faded red or brown ink at the beginning of sermons or prayers, and occasional marginal corrections and notes. Three fifteenth-century Venetian miniatures on parchment are pasted into the manuscript, in one case over a page of text.
Manuscript on glazed paper with parchment miniatures pasted in
One miniature (on f. 223r) has Latin prayers in humanistic bookhand visible on its verso
Note in ink pasted inside front cover gives date of composition as 1081 and date of copying as 1493
Description inside front cover mentions four miniatures; catalog description inside back cover advertises three
Origin in southern Italy assigned by De Ricci
Greek cursive
Three full-page fifteenth-century Venetian miniatures on vellum pasted in (fol. 4r possibly over notes, fol. 223r over text, fol. 235r on a blank leaf); initials and ornamental marginal decorations in brown or faded red; edges decorated with designs in red and brown ink
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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