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Evangelistarion

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Amorgos, Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, MS 23

Athina Almpani 2017 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Evangelistarion
Shelfmarks MS 23
Material Fine thin parchment
Date of Origin Second Half of the Twelfth Century
Script, Hands
  • The main texts of the fragments are written in a minuscule script.
  • One Gospel title is in majuscule [f. 17r (St. Luke’s Gospel) : ἘΚ ΤΟῩ ΚΑΤᾺ ΛΟΥΚᾺΝ:] and in three places in the fragment (f. 17vb, f. 19rb, f. 21ra) have lines in the text in a liturgical majuscule (probably in different ink). 
General Remarks
  • Indications of the liturgical time for the Gospel readings can be seen in the margins, especially the top margin.
  • The text contains some common abbreviations.
  • The layout is elegant and the script carefully produced; the headpieces and initials are in a different color ink from the main text, and are probably illuminated in red, blue and gold.

Original Condition

Page Height 300 mm
Page Width 215 – 225 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines 22

Current Condition

Dimensions 300 x 215 mm
More about the Current Condition

The parchment has suffered some damage, especially at the edges of the first folios. Nevertheless, we can be sure of the identity of the text.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description
  • Several decorated initials.
  • Two decorated headpieces (2nd frag., f. 17r & 3rd frag., f. 21r).
  • Musical Notation

    Neumes

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Persons
      • Text Language Ancient Greek
      • Title Evangelistarion
      • Content Description

        1st fragmentary text (ff. 1r-16v) :

        Inc. (f. 1r) : [Upper marginal note : information about the time of the Reading during the liturgical year (calendar)] Τῇ Γ΄ τῆς Β΄ ἑβδομάδ(ος)

        f. 1ra (St. John’s Gospel, 2:10) : [κα]λὸν οἶνον τίθησι, † καὶ ὅταν μεθυσθῶ | σι, τότε τὸν ἐλάσ | σω· † σὺ τετήρηκας | τὸν καλὸν οἶνον ἕως | ἄρτι †  

        Des. (f. 16v) : [Upper marginal note: information about the time of the Reading during the liturgical year] Τῇ Β΄ τ(ῆ)ς Ε΄ ἑβδομάδ(ος)

        f. 16vb (St. John’s Gospel, 8:42-43): γὰρ ἀπ᾿ ἐμαυτοῦ ἐ | λήλυθα, ἀλλἂ ἐκεῖνος [ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνος (scr.)]| μὲ ἀπέστειλε † δια (interrupted text)
      • Amorgos MS 23, f_1r, 1st frag.
      • Remarks
        • The Gospel readings were probably rearranged (in modern binding) by the sequence in which they were read during the liturgical year, which begins at Easter in the Orthodox church.
        • In the middle Byzantine era, the lectionary (Evangelistarion) replaced the Gospel book as the most widely used text by the church.
    • Content Item
      • Persons
      • Text Language Ancient Greek
      • Title Evangelistarion
      • Content Description

        2nd fragmentary text (17r-20v) :

        Inc. (f. 17r) : [Upper marginal note: information about the time of the Reading during the liturgical year (calendar)] †Μηνὶ Σεπτεμβρίω Α: ἀρχ(ὴ) Ἰνδ(ίκτου) τοῦ νέου ἔτ(ους), καὶ μνήμ(η) | τοῦ ἁγίου Συμεὼ(ν) τοῦ Στυ(λίτου) (decorative element)

        f. 17r (St. Luke’s Gospel, 1:1) : ἘΚ ΤΟῩ ΚΑΤᾺ ΛΟΥΚᾺΝ: | Τῶ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, | ἦλθεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς (com.) εἰς [εἰσ (scr.)] | τὴν Ναζαρέτ,

        Des. (f. 20vb) : τοῦ ἀρχιστρατήγου | Μιχαήλ, καὶ τοῦ ἁ | γίου Εὐδοξίου, ἐν τῇ Ὀκτωβρίω ὀκτὼ [-ω (scr.)] καὶ [και (scr.)] δεκάτη:-      (interrupted text)
      • Amorgos_MS_23_ff_16v_17r_option_
    • Content Item
      • Persons
      • Text Language Ancient Greek
      • Title Evangelistarion
      • Content Description

        3rd fragmentary text (21r-v) : 

        Inc. (f. 21r) : (decorative element) Μηνὶ Ὀκτωβρίω | μνήμη τοῦ ἁγίου |  ἀποστό(λου) Ἀνανίου

        Des. (f. 21v : St. Matthew's Gospel, 13:52-53) : ἐκ | τοῦ θησαυροῦ αὐ | τοῦ καινὰ [, (scr.)] καὶ πα | λαιά, † καὶ ἐγένε | το, ὅτε [συν (add.)]ετέλεσε (interrupted text)
      • Amorgos_MS_23_ff_20v_21r_option_

    History

    Persons and Institutions Amorgos, Panagias Chozoviotissas Monastery
    Remarks
    • The three fragmentary parts are joined in modern binding in one volume.
    • There are two legible page numberings, not continuous. It is quite possible that when the fragmentary folios were bound in a new volume they were numbered again.

    Bibliography

    • Catalogue:  L. Politis, <<Συνοπτικὴ ἀναγραφὴ χειρογράφων ἑλληνικῶν συλλογῶν>>, Ἑλληνικά (Παράρτημα 25), Thessaloniki 1976, p. 73.

      Selected bibliography on Script & Text: 

      C. R. Gregory, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments, Leipzig 1908, p. 122 et. seq.

      J. Finegan, Encountering New Testament Manuscripts: A Working Introduction to Textual Critisism, 1980, (especially p. 31-48).

      P. Orsini, Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018, p. 176-182, 193-195.
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