University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 137

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[Addresses and letters]

Metadata

DS ID:

DS1083

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 137

Title:

Addresses and letters

Letters

Author:

Dokeianos, Ioannes

John ‎Dokeianos‏ WIKIDATA

Date:

1550-1599?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Ms. codex.
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.
Script: Written in a cursive script by various hands.
Decoration: Red used for some headings and initials. Some marginalia.
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.
Origin: No place of writing indicated. Written in the second half of the 16th century (Topping).
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:

orations

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)

Orthodox Eastern Church

Byzantine Empire

History

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

Metochites, Theodoros, 1270-1332

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

Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century

Byzantine literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915517613503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gm81q0d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania