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This manuscript is a palimpsest, in which a grammatical treatise was written in Greek cursive with no decoration in the fifteenth century on leaves from an earlier manuscript. The previous text, mostly not legible, was a late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century copy of Ad correctionem eorum qui virtuose vivunt, by the fourth-century theologian Ephrem the Syrian, written in Greek minuscule (Kavrus-Hoffman). The lower, older text is perpendicular to the upper text. Three leaves of the older manuscript were used as bifolia and are sewn into a gathering with no binding.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 6; 178 x 115 mm bound to 178 x 115 mm; Foliation: Modern pagination in pencil, outer margins, 1-11; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 1-6; references in this record are to foliation; Collation: 1 (6)
Written in one column of twenty-six lines; the frame-ruling in hardpoint of the older manuscript has been reused as the margins of the later manuscript; written area: 132 x 85 mm
Greek cursive
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.
Constantinople?
Possibly written in the scriptorium of Saint John the Baptist Petra Monastery (Prodromos Petra Monastery) in Constantinople (Kavrus-Hoffman); first half 15th century
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Formerly owned by G. Calsoras; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, March 10, 1909, no. 483
Constantinople?
Possibly written in the scriptorium of Saint John the Baptist Petra Monastery (Prodromos Petra Monastery) in Constantinople (Kavrus-Hoffman); first half 15th century
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Formerly owned by G. Calsoras; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, March 10, 1909, no. 483
This manuscript is a palimpsest, in which a grammatical treatise was written in Greek cursive with no decoration in the fifteenth century on leaves from an earlier manuscript. The previous text, mostly not legible, was a late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century copy of Ad correctionem eorum qui virtuose vivunt, by the fourth-century theologian Ephrem the Syrian, written in Greek minuscule (Kavrus-Hoffman). The lower, older text is perpendicular to the upper text. Three leaves of the older manuscript were used as bifolia and are sewn into a gathering with no binding.
Greek cursive
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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