Various – mainly patristic and Hagiographical – texts.

Title

Various – mainly patristic and Hagiographical – texts.

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 82

Date

16th century

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper

Physical extent

vi + 293 leaves (fols 62 and 106 have two parts each; fols 62a, 62b, 106a, 106b).

Hands

Βενέδικτος Ἐπισκοπόπουλος, RGK I, 38, Álbum de copistas de manuscritos griegos en España, I, 37. (accessed at 1st September 2019) - Episcopulus, Benedictus (fols 130r-199r). A. Diller, ‘Joannes Canabutzes’, Byzantion 40 (1970) 272; E. S. Giannopoulos, Ἡ Ἄνθηση τῆς Ψαλτικῆς Τέχνης στὴν Κρήτη (1566–1669), Ἵδρυμα Βυζαντινῆς Μουσικολογίας-Μελέται 11, Athens 2004, pp. 143–154.

Decoration

Various decorative headpieces: i) fol. 1r: Large piece (in black and red) which was written over the first five lines of the main text. The scribe realised that he needed a decoration and apparently covered those lines with it. On top of the sketch it is written in red ink: ἰησοῦ υἱὲ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐλέησόν με. (on left and right sides); ii) fol. 130r: small piece in red ink, partly lost due to paper cut; Simple decoration: fols 201v, 236r (with use of simple cross), 262r, 277r,

Binding

Typical Holkham binding of dark 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: / TRACTATUS/ VARII/ GR.–/ SÆC. XV./ ; in pasted black leather: MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 82/

Provenance

Ownership Notes: fol. iiir; ἱερεὺς μάρκος μορζῆνος; fol. 1r, fol. 1r: (in grey ink): ἐκ τῶν μαρκου Ἱερέως τοῦ μορζήνου καὶ κρητὸς;

Catalogue Nrs: paste down: MS. Holkham Gr. 82 fol. ir: (in pencil); Holk Cat. No. 127 126 (subscr. 99) C2B1; fol. 1r: handwritten note in grey ink by B. de Montfaucon: 1698· Cod. num. 26./ Codex 300 circiter Annorum/varia continens qua/ in Superiore catalogo/ ennumerantur/= Giustiniani 26; (at the bottom, in brown ink): ΝΓον =Morezenos 53,; Olim Holkham Hall, Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 99.