Symeon Magister and Logothetes — 14th century (?)

Title

Symeon Magister and Logothetes — 14th century (?)

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 189

Date

14th century (?)

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 110 ('75'-'184')leaves

Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Provenance

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Title

'Tαῦτά εἰαω αἱ ἐπιστολαὶ καὶ αἱ ἀποκρίσεις τὢν πνευματικὢν καὶ άγίων [?] β' γερόντων ἡσνχασάντων ἔν τινι κοινοβίῳ ὄντι ἐν τῇ περιχώρῳ Τάζης' καὶ λεγομένῳ τοὔ ἀββἂ Σερι[δον or -δωνος] ...', the first part of a long epilogue

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 189

Summary

The leaves are labelled '75'-'184'.

This volume, which deserves attention, appears to be of the same character as some of those mentioned in Harless' Fabricius's Bibl. Graeca xi. 104 n, 585 n, connected with the names of Dorotheus and Barsanuphius (ὁ μέγας γέρων). [I read the contracted word before β' as μεγάλων (cf. fol. 149, 1. 1), and the abbat's name as Σεργ[οννα?] E.W.B.N.].

Strackhovius (when the first 74 leaves were still in the MS.) and Gaisford describe this MS. as a Chronicon of Symeon Metaphrastes.

Date

written in the 14th cent. (?)

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Physical facet

On parchment, in parts stained and rubbed

Physical extent

110 Leaves