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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.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+11+iii; 360 x 245 mm bound to 370 x 265 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (1, +1), 2 (8, -1 -5), 3 (8, -3 -4 -5 -6); Signatures: Quire 3 signed ME', in small majuscules by the scribe in the upper right corner and by a later hand in the lower center margin (fol. 8r; Kavrus-Hoffmann)
Two columns of twenty-eight lines, script often positioned across ruled lines; frame-ruled in hard point; folios ruled on the hair side (Leroy I); prickings frequently visible; colored initials in left margins in Wisdom of Solomon (fol. 1r-1v); written area: 260 x 145 mm
Minuscule bouletée
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)
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.
Modern flyleaves in 1980 binding; two paper and one parchment in front, one parchment and two paper in back
Collation by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann
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
913 or 914
Modern half leather, rebound by Marty Dickson, July 1980 (pencil note inside back cover)
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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)
Constantinople
913 or 914
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Parent manuscript codex Atheniensis 2641 was made at Constantinople for the patrician Samonas by the scribe Joseph
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.
Modern flyleaves in 1980 binding; two paper and one parchment in front, one parchment and two paper in back
Collation by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann
Minuscule bouletée
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)
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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