De caelesti hierarchia, etc
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15499931
Description
- Title
- De caelesti hierarchia, etc
- Creator
- Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century
- Contributor
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Andrew, of Crete, Saint, approximately 660-740.
Dionysius, of Halicarnassus.
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint.
Nicephorus, Blemmydes, 1197-1272.
Pachymeres, George, 1242-approximately 1310. - Published / Created
- [between 1600 and 1610]
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part III: Nicetas of Serres, Commentarius in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes. Part IV: Theophanes Cerameus, Homiliae (text of 13 sermons). Part V: Andrew of Crete, Encomium in Martyres X. Part VI: Nicephorus Blemmydes, De anima. Part VII: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum, extract (ch. 14-15).
- Description
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In Greek.
Script: The codex is composed of several small manuscripts and booklets, each copied by a different scribe but all written in similar styles of minuscule, that were originally bound together in the 17th century shortly after being copied.
Part I: Carefully executed woven headpieces in black and red on ff. 1r and 7r; beginning of each portion of the text marked by large initial in red, accompanied by flowers outlined in red and filled with pale yellow. Rubrics stop on f. 22v. Part II: Crude headpiece (in imitation of that on f. 7r?) occurs on f. 100r. Large painted initials, in red, with vine-leaf appendages, mark sections of the text. Part III: Delicate floral headpiece on f. 138r: each flower is outlined in red and painted with pale grey and red washes; details added in black. More modest headpiece in similar style, but painted with yellow, occurs on f. 148v; intricate initials in same colors on ff. 138v and 148v. Part IV: Simple woven headpieces, in red, on ff. 266r and 269r. Initials with floral motifs accompany rubricated titles for each sermon; decoration is incomplete (stops on f. 320r). Part V: One initial, in black, occurs at the beginning of the text (f. 330r). Part VII: Small decorative initial and heading, in red, at the beginning of the work.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked. - Provenance
- Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9480). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
- Extent
- ff. iv + 94 + v + 27 + xi + 128 + 54 + 8 + 16 + 8 + v : 185 x 128 (ca. 135 x 95) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 260
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century.
- Subject (Topic)
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Christian martyrs
Cosmology, Ancient
Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Sermons
Theology - Subjects
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Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century
Christian martyrs
Cosmology, Ancient
Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Sermons > Early works to 1800
Theology > Early works to 1800
Italy > 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Dionysius the Areopagite, De Caelesti Hierarchia, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9792177
- Object ID (OID)
- 15499931
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