Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 251

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DS ID:

DS4590

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 251

Title:

Enarratio in prophetam Isaiam

Author:

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379

Basil of Caesarea WIKIDATA

Place:

Constantinople

Istanbul TGN

Date:

913-914

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Ancient Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+11+iii; 360 x 245 mm bound to 370 x 265 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Monē tou Timiou Prodromou (Serrai, Greece)

Monē tou Timiou Prodromou WIKIDATA

Ethnikē Vivliothēkē tēs Hellados

National Library of Greece WIKIDATA

Ashburner, Walter, 1864-1936

Walter Ashburner WIKIDATA

Note:

Modern flyleaves in 1980 binding; two paper and one parchment in front, one parchment and two paper in back
Collation by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann
Binding: Modern half leather, rebound by Marty Dickson, July 1980 (pencil note inside back cover)
Layout: Two columns of twenty-eight lines, script often positioned across ruled lines; frame-ruled in hard point; folios ruled on the hair side (Leroy I); prickings frequently visible; colored initials in left margins in Wisdom of Solomon (fol. 1r-1v); written area: 260 x 145 mm
Script: Minuscule bouletée
Script: Scribe: Joseph
Decoration: Running title (Sophia Solom(onos)) in Alexandrian majuscule with alternating magenta red and blue letters; enlarged initials in magenta red (Wisdom of Solomon, fol. 1r-1v)
Related resource: Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda. "Lost and Found Folios of Codex Athens, National Library of Greece 2641: Philadelphia, Free Library, Fragment Lewis E 251," Rivista di studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, N.S. 42 (2005): 93-104.
Provenance: Parent manuscript codex Atheniensis 2641 was made at Constantinople for the patrician Samonas by the scribe Joseph (colophon); donated by an unknown owner to the library of Monē tou Timiou Prodromou (monastery of Saint John the Baptist), Serrai, Greece; stolen from the monastery by Bulgarians in 1917; 1919, placed at the Ethnikē Vivliothēkē tēs Hellados (National Library of...

Keyword:

biblical

Ancient Greek (culture or style)

Turkey

fragments (object portions)

Fathers of the church

Commentaries

Tenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_251.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_251/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia