University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 137

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DS ID:

DS1083

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 137

Title:

Addresses and letters.

Author:

Dokeianos, Ioannes

John ‎Dokeianos‏ WIKIDATA

Date:

[1550-1599?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 105 leaves : paper ; 205 x 148 (152 x 94) mm bound to 213 x 151 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: No place of writing indicated. Written in the second half of the 16th century (Topping).
Binding: Contemporary boards. Some splitting of the binding between quires. Stains on the cover. Spine shows signs of wear. Includes at least three different types of paper.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Heading for first work: Iōannou dokianou enkōmion eis ton basilea kōnstantinon ton palaiologon.
Cover title: Diaphorōn enkōmia kai epistolai.
Foliation: Paper, 105; [x], [1-95]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Decoration: Red used for some headings and initials. Some marginalia.
Script: Written in a cursive script by various hands.
Formerly Ms. 51 of Notre Dame de Pilar, Saragossa; possibly the same manuscript that belonged to Andreas Darmarios Epidaurios Lakon, used by Martin Crusius in 1584.
Acquired (Colton Fund), 1959.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

orations

codices (bound manuscripts)

Metochites, Theodoros, 1270-1332

Constantine XI Palaeologus, Emperor of the East, 1405-1453

Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine literature

Andronicus II Palaeologus, Emperor of the East, 1260-1332

History

Orthodox Eastern Church

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915517613503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gm81q0d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania