Sermons, mainly by Chrysostom, for Sundays in Lent, Holy week, Easter, All Saints, and some fixed festivals

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Title

Sermons, mainly by Chrysostom, for Sundays in Lent, Holy week, Easter, All Saints, and some fixed festivals

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 22

Date

15th and 16th centuries

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

1. (fols 1r–4r) ⟨Ephrem the Syrian⟩ ⟨Sermo in adventum domini, et de consummatione saeculi⟩

2. (fols 4r–14v) John Chrysostom In Genesim, Sermo 3

3. (fols 15r–23v) John Chrysostom Appendices, De oratione et eleemosyna

4. (fols 24r–25v) Tit. ἐκ τοῦ πατερικοῦ περι μέθης, inc. Ἡ μέθη πλέον τῆς ἀδδιφαγί(ας) … des. ἀλλὰ τὴν ἑαυτῶν κοιλίαν θεοποιοῦνται, καὶ ὑπηρετοῦσιν. Cf. Bertos : «μέθη πλέον τῆς ἀδηφαγίας βαρυτέρα ὑπάρχει. καὶ πάλιν [ἡ μέθη] ἀπηγόρευται παρὰ τῇ θείᾳ γραφῇ». See Athanasiadou-Stephanoudaki (2015), p. 85.

5. (fols 26r–26v) John Chrysostom De Sacerdotio Liber 3

6. (fols 27r–32v) John Chrysostom In Matthaeum homilia 29

7. (fols 33r–37v) John Chrysostom De veneranda Cruce, ecloga 38, Recensio breuior, De confessione pretiosae crucis

8. (fols 38r–41r) John Chrysostom In epistulam 1 ad Corinthios homilia 8, ethicon 1–44

9. (fol. 41v) Blank

10. (fols 42r–51v) Miraculum in obsidione seu de ἀκαθίστῳ

11. (fols 52r–56r) John Chrysostom De Lazaro et divite

12. (fols 56r–59v) John Chrysostom In Lazarum, Homilia 2

13. (fols 60r–71v) Leontios of Constantinople Homilia 3 In ramos palmarum, Recensio abbreviata

14. (fols 71v–84r) John Chrysostom In Iob sermo 1

15. (fols 84r–94r) John Chrysostom In decem virgines

16. (fols 94r–98v) John Chrysostom De cruce et latrone

17. (fols 99r–121r) Epiphanios, Archbishop of Cyprus Homilia in divini corporis sepulturam

18. (fols 121v–124r) Gregory of Nazianzus Or. 1, In sanctum pascha et in tarditatem

19. (fol. 124v) Blank

20. (fols 125r–131v) Amphilochios of Iconium In Resurrectionem Domini

21. (fols 132r–134r) John Chrysostom In mediam Pentecosten

22. (fols 134v–136v) John Chrysostom In Assumptionem Domini

23. (fols 137r–143v) John Chrysostom De sanctis martyribus

24. (fols 144r–150r) John Chrysostom De mulieribus et pulchritudine Ecloga 14

25. (fol. 150v) Blank

26. (fols 151r–152v) John Chrysostom In Matthaeum homilia 41, ethicon

27. (fols 152v–153v) Patristic florilegium

1. (fol. 152v) inc. ἢ πν(εῦμ)α ὦδε τὴν τοῦ χ(ριστο)ῦ θεότητα φησιν … ὁρών(των) καὶ ἀπιστούν(των). See Photios, scholia on passages from Matthew Gospel, ed. by A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus in Православный Палестинский сборник. 31-й выпуск (Т. XI. Вып. 1) 1892. Пр VI. 53–140 (83.7–12).

ii. (fols 152v–153r) Tit. ἄλλο. inc. Εἰ μὲν τὶς εἰς ἀρχὰς … ἀσύγγνωστός ἐστι, id, op.cit (83.29–84.4); iii) fol. 153r: inc. ἔκρυψεν δ᾽ἐνταῦθ᾽ … des. ὅτι ἀφίεται διὰ μετανοίας; iv) fols 153r-153v: inc. καὶ ἄλλ(ος) δέ τις εἴπη πε(ρὶ) τούτου· φα(σὶν) τιν(ὲς) τέσσαρας εἶναι τρόπους … des. ἀφεθήσεται τ(ῆς) ἀσεβεί(ας) κ(αὶ) ἀπιστίας ἡ ἁμαρτία.

28. (fols 154r–158r) John Chrysostom In Matthaeum homilia 31, ethicon

29. (fol. 158v) Blank

30. (fols 159r–170v) John Chrysostom De ieiunio, De Dauide

31. (fols 171r–174r) John Chrysostom In Illud: Attendite vobis ne forte graventur corda vestra

32. (fols 174r–177v) John Chrysostom De audiendis adhortationibus

33. (fols 177v–181r) John Chrysostom De gratiarum actione

34. (fols 181r–185v) John Chrysostom De confessione peccatorum

35. (fols 186r–189r) John Chrysostom In Illud: Sic Deus dilexit mundum

36. (fols 189r–193r) John Chrysostom In Illud: Diliges proximum tuum sicut teipsum

37. (fols 193r–198r) John Chrysostom Appendices, In decem virgines

38. (fols 198r–209r) John Chrysostom Appendices, In recens illuminatos

39. (fols 209v–213r) John Chrysostom De salute nostra et oratione perpetua

40. (fols 213r–218v) John Chrysostom De ieiunio sermo 5

41. (fols 218v) Text crossed out.

42. (fols 219r–221v) John Chrysostom (τοῦ αὐτοῦ in the MS) In illud : Euntes docete omnes gentes

43. (fols 221v–226r) John Chrysostom Quod debet episcopus docere

44. (fols 226r–229v) John Chrysostom In Illud: Ne iudicetis ante tempus

45. (fols 229v–233v) John Chrysostom In Illud: Diligite inimicos vestros

46. (fols 234r–239v) John Chrysostom De Sacerdotio Liber 7

47. (fols 240r–282v) John Chrysostom De paenitentia sermo 1

48. (fols 282v–286v) Anastasios from Sinai Questiones et responsiones, Quest.-Resp. 22.

a. (fols 286v–338r) Meletius the Monk De constitutione humanae naturae

50. (fol. 338v) ⟨Neophytos the Recluse⟩ ⟨Commentarius in Hexaemeron Genesim⟩

51. (fols 339r–347v) John Chrysostom In illud: Vidi Dominum, homilia 6

52. (fols 348r–357v) Basil of Caesarea In Sanctam Christi Generationem

53. (fols 358r–361r) John Chrysostom De nativitate Christi

54. (fols 361v–365v) John Chrysostom De epiphania

55. (fols 366r–369v)

John Chrysostom In annuntiationem B. Virginis

John Chrysostom Contra haereticos et in Sanctam Deiparam

56. (fols 370r–391v) ⟨Nicetas David the Paphlagon⟩ ⟨Passio S. Georgii⟩

57. (fols 392r–392v) ⟨Georgius m. Diospoli in Palaestina, Synaxarium (De columna uiduae)⟩

58. (fols 393r–398v) Ps.-John Chrysostom In decollationem S. Iohannis

59. (fols 399r–418r) Synaxarion for St Dimitrios of Thessalonica

60. (fols 418r–422v) Nicasios, deacon and monk Pantocratorites Translatio veli et imaginis Constantinopolim S. Demetrii

61. (fols 423r–430v) Christophoros of Alexandria Homilia cui uita humana sit similis (parabola de serpente)

62. (fols 431r–444v) Pseodo-Athansius of Alexandria Narratio de cruce seu imagine Berytensi a. *Athanasio Alex. 1d.

63. (fols 445r–448r) Life of St Euphrosynos the cook

64. (fols 448v–456v) Life of St Philotheus filius Iusti

65. (fols 457r–v) Blank.

66. (fols 458r–463v) Florilegium (?)

67. (fol. 463v) inc. τῶν πέντ(ε) τρόπων τῆς συντυχί(ας) … des. ἀλλ᾽ἡμεῖς αὐτ() δεχόμεθ(α) μετα πεῖραν προσβάλλοντ(αι). Cf. Abbas Thalassios, Centuriae iv de caritate et continentia, PG 91, 1433; CPG 7848.

68. (fols 464r–464v) John Chrysostom Epistula Ad Monachos

69. (fol 465r) ⟨Severianos of Gabala⟩ In dictum Apostoli : Non quod volo facio

70. (fol. 465v) Pen-trials, also οὗτος ὁ βίβλος ἐστὶν μιχαὴλ μορζη ἱερέως.

71. (fols 466r–470v) John Chrysostom De die dominica

72. (fol. 471) Blank.

73. (fol. 471v) Pen-trials ἀθανάσιος (..)θρᾶς τοίνυν τῆς τιαύτης αὐτῶν διανοί(ας) φαινομ(ένης), ἀνάγκη τὴν ἀλήθειαν λάμπειν, τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς διαγνώσεως. (= Georgios the Monk, Chronicon breve (lib. 1) (redactio recentior), PG 110, 100 C, 41. 8.)

Παυλος ἐὰν μὴ γνῶμεν δύναμιν τῆς φωνῆς/ ἔσωμαι τῶ λαλούντι μοι βάρβαρος/ κ(αὶ) ὁ λαλῶν ἐν ἐμοὶ βάρβαρος (= I Corinthians 14.11).

Form

codex

Support

Paper

Physical extent

ii + 473 leaves

Hands

Many different hands.

Binding

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 in pasted black leather(?): HOMILIÆ/ VARIORUM. GR-/ MS./ SÆC. XIV./ In pasted black leather(?): MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 22/

Provenance

Ownership Notes: fol. 7r: Ιςον (in grey ink)

fol. 7r: handwritten note in black ink by B. de Montfaucon: 1698. Codex num. 34. 300 Circ./ annorum Varia variorum BB. Homiliae

fol. 465v: οὗτος ὁ βίβλος ἐστὶν μιχαὴλ μορζη ἱερέως, but it looks more like pen-trial.

Old Catalogue Nrs: fol. ir: Holk. Cat. – No 69 C. 2 A.15 (written in pencil); Morezenos 16. Giustiniani 34.

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