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Evangelion

Gospel of Luke

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Alexandria, Patriarchal Library, Cod. 92 [olim 251; 167 (ΡΞΖ)]

Athina Almpani, MIET 2018 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Gospel of Luke
Shelfmarks Cod. 92 [olim 251; 167 (ΡΞΖ)]
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 801 - 1000 CE
Script, Hands
  • Text in pointed upright majuscule script with decorated initials.
  • The various marginal notes are written in minuscule script by, at least, two different later hands.
General Remarks
  • The text of the main codex ends on f. 440rb, and is followed by a colophon there.
  • After that, a later hand wrote a text from the Menaion for 25 December (f. 440rb-vb).
  • Then follows an uncatologued paper bifolium (?) inserted as two flyleaves (ff. 441-442) providing part of the Menaion for 24 December (missing the beginning); Matins, not from the beginning (acephalous text). The text is continuous across the leaves.
  • Lastly, there are two parchment folios (ff. 443-444) that derive from an Evangelion (the current fragment).

Original Condition

Page Height up to 290 mm
Page Width up to 220 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines 22
Numbering
  • Legible foliation by a later hand.
  • The foliation is continuous between the main text and the back flyleaves (paper & parchment ones).

Current Condition

Dimensions 290 x 220 mm
More about the Current Condition

The parchment flyleaves seem either have had the same dimensions as the host volume (290 x 220 mm), or to have been cropped to match them.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Decorated initials
  • Musical Notation Ekphonetic notation (consists of symbols)

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Ancient Greek
      • Title Evangelion
      • Content Description

        The text :

        f. 443ra-b : Luke 9:29-35

        f. 443va : Luke 9:35-36 (until the 19th line)

        f. 443va-b : Luke 9: 43-44 (the text is terminated abruptly) 

        f. 444ra-b : Luke 10:11 (the beginning of the pericope is missing) - 15 (f. 444rb, until the 5th line)

        f. 444rb : Luke 7:1-3

        f. 444va-b : Luke 7:3-8

        Concerning the time of these readings, the annual cycle of the Gospels is composed of four series; specifically the Gospel of St. Luke is divided over nineteen weeks beginning on the Monday after the Elevation of the Holy Cross. In addition, from the thirteenth week, it is only read on Saturdays and Sundays, while St. Mark's Gospel is read on the remaining weekdays.
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      • Remarks
        • Common abbreviations, mainly nomina sacra, and ekphonetic notation throughout the text.
        • Notes in the margins. 

    Host Volume

    Title Bombycin paper codex providing Menaion (September - February) with Synaxaria consisting of 440 folios.
    Date of Origin/Publication 1331 AD
    Shelfmark Cod. 92 [olim 251; 167 (ΡΞΖ)]
    Remarks
    • Leather binding.
    • Doodle on the inner side of the back cover.
    • According to the microfilm examination, the entire MS 92 consists of 444 folios. More specifically, there are 440 folios of main text, 1 bifolium (?) positioned after the main codex and 2 more parchment leaves (see above the general remarks of the general information of the fragment item). However, according to the catalogue by T. Moschonas, the whole manuscript consists of 443 folios.

    Bibliography

    • Catalogue: T. Moschonas, Πατριαρχεῖον Ἀλεξανδρείας. Κατάλογοι τῆς πατριαρχικῆς βιβλιοθήκης. Τόμος Α'. Χειρόγραφα, Alexandria, 1945, pp. 90-91.

      Ν. P. Tzoumerkas, <<Τα Βυζαντινά Χειρόγραφα της Πατριαρχικής Βιβλιοθήκης Αλεξανδρείας>>, Ekklesiastikos Pharos, vol. ΠΕ΄- ΠΣΤ΄ (2014-2015), Alexandria, 2016, p. 315 (repeating the very brief information by T. Moschonas).
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