Lives of saints and various sermons

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Title

Lives of saints and various sermons

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 27

Date

14th–15th c.

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

1. (fols 1r–26v) Sophronios of Jerusalem Life of Mary of Egypt

2. (fols 27r–43r) Anastasios of Sinai Homilia in sextum Psalmum

3. (fols 43r–44r) Basil of Caesarea (?) Sermo ob sacerdotum instructionem

4. (fols 44r–46v) ⟨Canonical questions and answers⟩

5. (fols 46v–60r) John Chrysostom (?) Ad monachos

6. (fol. 60r) Rubrics for the service of the Blessing of the Water (the initials are missing from the text); upside-down: Beginning of an epistle and pen trial with the name of Germanos Patriarch of Constantinople by another scribe.

7. (fols 61r–78v) Germanos of Constantinople Homilia in annuntiationem s. deiparae

8. (fols 78v–89r) Protevangelium of James

9. (fols 89r–99v) ⟨Menander protector⟩ Visio Constantini (crucis inventio)

10. (fols 99v–116v) John Chrysostom In principium Actorum homilia 1

11. (fols 117r–136r) ‘Ephraim the Greek’ Life (and Miracles) of St Andronikos

12. (fol. 136v) Later text of an uneducated hand replete with orthographical mistakes writing exorcisms against evil eye (Vaskania), inc. +++ ουν σῦν αγιοσονονόμει της … des. καλογερευτ μουντο(ς).

13. (fols 137r–141v) ⟨John Chrysostom⟩ In Zacchaeum publicanum

14. (fols 141v–145v) Life and Miracles of Sts Cosmas and Damianos

15. (fols 145v–155r) ⟨Severian of Gabala⟩ De caeco et Zacchaeo

16. (fols 155v–165r) Life of St Euphrosyne of Alexandria

17. (fols 165r–175r) Life of St John Calybites

18. (fols 175v–177v) John Chrysostom In quatriduanum Lazarum (contra Anomoeos Homilia 9)

19. (fols 178r–184v) Epiphanios of Constantia in Cyprus Homilia in festo palmarum

20. (fols 184v–205v) ‘Ephraim the Greek’ In pulcherrimum Ioseph

21. (fols 206r–215v) Life of St Nicolaos of Myrha (S.), Acta seu praxis de stratelatis

22. (fols 215v–223r) ⟨Andrew of Crete⟩ In S. Nicolaum

23. (fols 223r–234v) Gregory of Nazianzus In Nativitatem vel in Theophania (or. 38)

24. (fols 234v–246v) Cyril of Alexandria Homilia xiv. 1–22, De exitu animi

25. (fols 238v–239r) Later hand (the same uneducated one as on fol. 136v) adds some unidentified prayers, possibly related to Evil eye; inc. προσευχὴ τοῦ αγίου ἰερομάρτυρου αντρυανού … des. προσπιπτο.

26. (fols 247r–253r) Miracle of St Theodore Tyron (the Recruit), Miraculum de matre et dracone

27. (fols 253r–268r) ‘Ephraim the Greek’ Sermo de communi resurrectione, de paenitentia et de caritate, et in secundum adventum d. n. I. C.

28. (fols 268v–277v) Archippοs the hermit Miraculum S. Michaelis In Chonis

29. (fols 277v–282r) Narrationes animae utiles: 1y. De duobus fratribus post alterius mortem reconcilliatis

30. (fols 282v–283v) Narrationes a. Paulo ep. Monembasiae, VIII. De sacerdote a divinis suspenso

31. (fols 283v–291v) Acta Thomae

32. (fols 292r–303v) Paralipomena Jeremiae (Reliqua verborum Baruch)

33. (fols 304r–311v) Life of St Alexios or man of God

34. (fols 311v–319r) John Chrysostom (?) De virginitate et eleemosyna

35. (fols 319v–326v) Passion of the Forty Martyrs of Sevastia

36. (fols 327r–333v) Amphilochios of Iconium In occursum Domini

37. (fols 333v–337v) John Chrysostom In annuntiationem b. Virginis

38. (fols 337v–348v) Leontios of Constantinople Homilia in mediam Pentecosten (hom. x)

Form

codex

Support

Paper

Physical extent

ii + 350 leaves

Hands

fols 1–136, 137–238, 239v-346v: Ἰωάννης (RGK I, 199; RGK II 277), John signs as τληπαθὴς ἱερομόναχος: fol. 348v: Τῶ ἔχοντι καὶ γράψαντι χ(ριστ)έ μου σῶσον· The first initial in red ink. Θ(εο)ῦ τὸ δῶρον καὶ ἰω(άννου) πόνος· τλη/παθοῦς ἔργον καὶ τάχα θύτ(ου). The first initial in red ink.

Decoration

: fol. 1r, fol. 61r, fol. 117r, 184v, 292r: decorative headpieces

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: OPUSCULA/ VARIA/ GR.–/M.S./ SÆC. XV; in pasted black leather: MS. HOLKHAM Gr. 27

Provenance

Ownership Notes: fol. ir: handwritten note in black ink by B. de Montfaucon: 1698. Codex 30· Codex annorum circiter 300 varia compleuens.

Old Catalogue Nrs: Morezenos 4 (fol. 1r, bottom: δον in black ink), Giustiniani 30. Olim Holkham Hall, Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 95.

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