Works by Athanasios of Alexandria.

Title

Works by Athanasios of Alexandria.

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 28

Date

15th cent.

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

ii + 310 parchment leaves, + ii (numbered as 311–312)

Decoration

fol. 1r: decorative headpiece

Binding

Typical Holkham binding of brown leather and green straight-grained morocco over pasteboards, 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: S. ATHANASII/ OPERA/ GR.–//M.S./ SÆC. XIV/ in pasted black leather(?): MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 28/ . Rebacked.

Provenance

Ownership Notes: fol. 1r: handwritten note in black ink by B. de Montfaucon (trimmed during binding): 1698. Codex: num. 77 operum Athanasii tomus primus annorum/ minus quam 300.

Old Catalogue Nrs: fol 1r: NA´, = Morezenos 51, Giustiniani 77. Holkham Hall.

fol. 309v: Signature at the end of the MS in grey ink: μάρκου, μαμουνά, καὶ τῶν φίλων ,i.e. Markos Mamounas and his friends; Mamounas’ collection of MSS was somehow connected with those of George, Count of Corinth (Γεώργιος Κόμης ὁ Κορίνθιος) see D. Pingree, ‘The Library of George, Count of Corinth’, Studia Codicologica, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 124, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1977, pp. 351–362 (p. 355).