Nicholas Cabasilas — 16th century, first half; Corfu or Venice.

Title

Nicholas Cabasilas — 16th century, first half; Corfu or Venice.

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Gr. 115

Associated place

Greek

Italian

Place of origin

Corfu or Venice.

Date

16th century, first half

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Binding

16th century, Greek, or Italian alla greca (scribe worked in Corfu to 1537 and in Venice 1537–1552): wood boards, thick, with grooved edges; polished brown leather with bold lines and blind-stamps including a diamond shape with double-headed eagle; spine plain; traces of two clasps, probably once of plaited leather, running from lower board to fore-edge pegs on front board (all now lost); elaborate endbands, curving around to form shoulders and oversewn in alternating blue and white thread. Endleaves of ‘Dutch gilt paper’ embossed in red with foliage design, added in 18th-century Italy; label of Jacopo Soranzo at top of spine; minor modern repairs. 123–125 (with shoulders 132) x 80–83 x c. 43 mm. (book closed).

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Gamillscheg/Harlfinger ascribe the script to Antonios Eparchos (1491–1571): he worked in his native Corfu to 1537, in Venice 1537–1552, thereafter unspecified (Ernst Gamillscheg & Dieter Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten, 800–1600, Teil 1, Handschriften aus Bibliotheken Grossbritanniens, A. Verzeichnis der Kopisten (Vienna 1981), pp. 38–9 no. 23.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Nic. Cabasilas

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Gr. 115

Summary

Nicholas Cabasilas, Explicatio diuinae liturgiae

Treatise on papal primacy

Date

16th century, first half

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Physical extent

1 volume