[The life in Christ and other works]

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Title:
[The life in Christ and other works]
Alternative Title:
  • Peri tēs en Christō zōēs. Greek. 1550
  • Cabasilas, Nicolaus, active 14th century. Works. Selections.
Date:
1550
Creator:
Cabasilas, Nicolaus, active 14th century.
Contributor:
Description:

  • Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

  • Format: Manuscript codex.

  • Title supplied by cataloger.

  • Layout: Written in 1 column of 29 lines; barely visible ruling; ruled with a mastara.

  • Script: An Italianate hand of the middle 1500s. The hand has many characteristics of Harlfinger 19, 34, and 298. The hand is mostly very vertical, but sometimes slants to the left and sometimes in the direction of the flow of the text. For the most part it has a strong vertical profile with letter separation. The hand is fluid with a loose, open appearance.

  • Decoration: Simple penwork ornamentation used in the headings, the titles, and in the initials, always done in red; mostly they are floriated; ornamentation on fol. 2r, 11v, 30r, 34v, 53r, 57r, 77r, 109r, and 139r.

  • Former shelfmark: Phillipps MS 11609.

  • Title cataloged from existing description.

  • The manuscript includes the first six books of On the life in Christ (Patrologiae Graeca 150, 493-684) and Against Usurers (PG 150, 727) by Cabasilas; with Elementary introduction to the Orthodox Faith (PG 95, 100), Concerning the two wills in Christ (PG 95, 128-185), Letter to the Archimandrite Jordanes about the Parisee (PG 95, 21-61) and First treaty agains the iconoclasts (PG 94, 1232), Against Acephalus concerning the composition of nature (PG 95, 113-125), On divine images I (PG 94, 1232-1284), and On divine images III (PG 94, 1319-1422) by St. John of Damascus, and the Commentary on the Song of Songs by Nilus of Ancyra.

  • Binding: Dark brown calf over pasteboard; blind stamped with central arabesque on both covers; ruled frame, and original red linen ties, now wanting.

Location:
Italy
Subject:
Format:
Language:
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Extent:
204 leaves :paper, illuminations ; 318 x 215 (270 x 313) mm
Digital Collection:
Early Manuscripts collection
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE006049969
Provenance:
  • Source of acquisition: Purchase; Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, London, acquired with MSS. 49, 51 and 52; 1971, May 10.
  • Ownership history: Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps. Bibliotheca Phillippica. 11609, Sotheby's Sale, lot 1227, 1970, June 15/16.
  • Ownership history: Provenance: Duke of Sussex, Augustus Frederick, with his ex libris (VI / H. l. 16). Sale of 1844, July 31, lot 127. Bibliotheca Sussexiana, lxiv, No. 11. According to Pettigrew, a duplicate of this manuscript is in the Holkham Collection.
  • Ownership history: Provenance: Gerard and Johann Meerman 104, Bibliotheca Meermanniana (The Hague, 1824). Sale of 1824, June 8, IV, 13, lot 104.
  • Ownership history: Provenance: Jesuit Collège du Clermont, Paris (MS. Gr. 167; on f. 1r the note: "Paraphé au desir de l'arrest du 5 juillet 1763. Mesnil"). Sale of 1764.
  • Ownership history: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University).
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • Call number: Greek MS 050
  • 006049969
  • duke:282433
  • emsgk01050
  • ark:/87924/r4gm81n8f
  • 93efcad0-5c70-4348-bd70-58938671a013
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