THEODORET OF CYR and PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA; 1st half of the 10th c.
Lincoln College MS. Gr. 34
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
THEODORET OF CYR and PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA; 1st half of the 10th c.
Shelfmark
Lincoln College MS. Gr. 34
Date
1st half of the 10th c.
c. 1342
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment (ff. 2–41, 46–280) and paper (ff. 42–45) (see below)
Physical extent
280 + i leaves. Fol. 1 is an endpaper.
Hands
Part A (ff. 2–41, 46–140) Cosmas (RGK I, no. 216), who signed his name on f. 140r: Ὁ Θεος ἱλάσθητι καὶ | συγχώρισον δια πρεσ|βίων τῆς σὲ τεκού|σης αμαρτωλῶ | Κοσμᾶ. Similar hands are found in Princeton University Library, Garrett 14, dated 955, in Paris, BNF, Grec 668, dated 954, and in Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, II.2404, dated 976.
Part B (ff. 42–46) anonymous, active in the mid-fourteenth century (judging from the paper watermarks).
Part C (ff. 141–280) anonymous.
Decoration
There is no prominent decoration.
Binding
Binding (probably eighteenth-century) of marbled paper over pasteboard. The endpapers and pastedowns contain no watermarks.
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Sir George Wheler (1651–1724), who acquired it during his journey to Greece (1675–1676).
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