Item Summary

Includes sixteen liturgical homilies by Gregory of Nazianzos, bound out of order

Descriptive Information

Title
Homilies
Call Number
Princeton MS. 18
Identifier
ark:/88435/2z10x057w
Publisher
11th century.
Language
Ancient Greek
Date Created
1001-1100
Extent
276 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 252 x 178 (180 x 122) mm
Source Acquisition
Purchased in Sorrento, Italy, in 1921 for the Princeton University Library by Ernest Cushing Richardson (1860-1939), the University Librarian.
References
Kotzabassi, Sofia. Greek manuscripts at Princeton, sixth to nineteenth century: a descriptive catalogue, pages 136-139.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fols. 271r-v, 1r-2v: kenoutai gar tēs heautou doxēs epi mikron.
2. fols. 3r-5v, 264r-265v, 267r-270v, 266r-v, 6r-7v: Grēgoriou tou theologou logos eis ta phōta.
3. fols. 7v-21v, 248r-263v, 234r-240r: Logos 3. tou autou logos heteros, eis to vaptisma. Chthes tē lampra tōn phōtōn hēmera panēgyrisantes.
4. fols. 240r-243v, 244r-245v, 246r-247v, 22r-29v, 229r-v, 230r-233v, 276r-v, 228r-v, 220r-227v, 30r-38v, 39r-54v: Logos 4. Eis ton megan vasileion epitaphios. Emellen ara pollas hēmin hypotheseis tōn logōn.
5. fols. 54r-59v: Logos 5. Eis grēgorion ton adelphon (tou megalou by a later hand) vasileiou epistanta meta tēn cheirotonian. Philou pistou ouk estin antallagma tōn ontōn ouden.
6. fols. 59v-83r: Logos 6. eis ton megan athanasion episkopon alexandreias. Athanasion epainōn, aretēn epainesomai.
7. fols. 83r-103r: Logos 7. eis tēn tōn hekaton 50 episkopōn parousian. tou en hagiois patros hēmōn grēgoriou tou theologou logos.
8. fols. 103r-132r: Logos 8. peri ptōchotrophias. Andres adelphoi kai sympenētes, ptōchoi gar hapantes kai tēs theias charitos epideeis.
9. fols. 133r-135v: Logos 9. tou en hagiois patros hēmōn grēgoriou tou theologou, eis to pascha kai eis tēn vradytēta. Anastaseōs hēmera kai hē archē dexia kai lamprynthōmen.
10. fols. 135v-155r: Logos 10. logos heteros eis to pascha. Epi tēs phylakēs mou stēsomai; phēsin ho thaumasios amvakoum.
11. fols. 155v-161r: Logos 11. eis tēn kainēn kyriakēn kai eis martyra mamanta. Enkainia timasthai, palaios nomos kai kalōs echōn.
12. fols. 161r-162r: Eis tēn kainēn kyriakēn.
13. fols. 162v-174v: Logos 12. tou autou eis tēn pentēkostēn. Peri tēs heortēs vrachea philosophēsōmen, hina pneumatikōs heortasōmen.
14 fols. 175r-190v: Logos 13. eis ton patera siōpōnta dia tēn plēgēn tes chalazēs.
15. fols. 190v-201v: Logos 14. eis tous logous kai eis ton exisōtēn ioulianon.
16. fols. 201v-212v: Logos 15. eis tous makkavaious. Ti dai hoi makkavaioi; toutōn gar hē parousa panēgyris.0
17. fols. 213r-219v, 272r-275v: Logos 16. Eis kyprianon ex agrou epanēkōn, meta mian tēs mneias hēmeran.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment ; fols. 276 ; modern foliation in pencil ; some Greek numbers in brown in the upper margins of the misbound folios indicating the correct order of the folios.
Layout: 25 long lines per page ; hardpoint ruling ; prick-marks are sometimes visible in the margins.
Description: Written in brown ink by one scribe who wrote the text in variation of Perlschrift and the titles of the homilies in alexandrinischer Auszeichnungsmaiuskel ; marginal notes ; marginal Greek numerals for scholia.
Decoration: Except for the narrow strip preceding Oratio I on Easter, the text is accompanied by very little decoration. The main initials, outlined by the scribe in brown ink of the written text, are painted in blue, green, a dark reddish brown, and a dark blue or reddish purple that gleams as though it had a bit of silver in it.
Binding Note
Rebound by Mick LeTourneaux in the Princeton University Preservation Office in 1995.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminations (paintings)
Illuminated manuscripts—11th century
decorated initials (layout features)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
566

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d32ac367-c730-48b7-94a0-5abd633479f9/manifest