Chronicles by George the monk and Symeon Magister the Logothetes

Title

Chronicles by George the monk and Symeon Magister the Logothetes

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 60

Date

1118

additions, 15th c.

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment (except for fols. i-ii, 150, 151, paper).

Physical extent

: ii + 151 (1a-149 parchment leaves, with fols 1, 124 being counted twice as 1a, 1b, 124a and 124b) + ii at the end (as fols 150, 151 (ult.)

Hands

Νικηφόρος, d. 1118, RGK I, 305, whose colophon, being a combination of a book epigram in iambic dodecasyllable and a prose part with the year and date of completion, is given on fol. 149r: Χριστὲ ὁ πλάσας καμὲ ὡς ἠβουλήθης σοὶ σῶτερ δίδου τοῖς ἐμοῖς πόνοις χάριν. ἐτελειώθη τὸ παρὸν βιβλίον χειρὶ Νικηφόρου εὐτελοῦς μηνὶ μαρτίῳ α´ ἰνδικτιῶνος ια´ ἐν ἔτει ιςχκς´. http://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occ/3088

Decoration

fols 1r, 21v, 95r, 125v. Decorative head-pieces in carmine red ink.

Binding

Typical Holkham binding of brown leather, with Coke family ostrich crest in gilt in the centre of the upper cover; Date: early nineteenth century. Rebound by John Jones of Liverpool (worked for Holkham 1816–1823). The spine lettered in gilt: / GEORGII/ OECOMENICI/ ET// SIMEONIS/ MAGISTRI/ CHRONICA/ GR.–/ M.S./ AD. MCXVIII./; in pasted black leather: MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 60/

Provenance

Ownership Notes: fol. 1r: ἐκ τῶν μάρκου μορεζήνου ἱερέως; fol. 149r: Ἰωάννης Βαρθωλομέος: ἀπὸ τὴν τίνο· + υγόρασα το βηβλήον οὖτον ἀπο τὸν παπᾶν κυρὸν Ἰωάννην ἀπὸ τὸ σουρίαι. ὁ θεὸς συχωρίσιτον. + Οὗτος ὁ βίβλος ἐστὶν ἀμαρτόλου ἱἐρέος· μάρκου συγκέλου· καὶ ὡστις τόχεν (τύχεν Hutter) κλέψουν να ἔχει τὰς ἀρὰς τῶν ἁγίων πατέρων· καὶ των ἑπτὰ συνόδων (in marg. sec. manu καὶ των ἑπτὰ συνόδων).

Old Catalogue Nrs: 1st paste down (in the centre, in pencil): MS. Holkham Gr. 60; fol. i(r), in pencil: No 2832956 D3 B10D 2B11; fol. 1r: handwritten note in black ink by B. de Montfaucon: 1698· Cod. num. 22. Scriptus anno 1118· Georgii Oecumenici et Simeones Magistri Chronica.; (on the bottom): Μ ον= Morezenos 40; Giustiniani 22; Olim Holkham Hall, Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 296