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:
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., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked., In Greek., 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., and 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.
Subject (Name):
Andrew, of Crete, Saint, approximately 660-740, Dionysius, of Halicarnassus, Dionysius,--the Areopagite, Saint,--1st cent, Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, Nicephorus, Blemmydes, 1197-1272, and Pachymeres, George, 1242-ca. 1310
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholia, Sermons--Early works to 1800, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created:
approximately 1200 - approximately 1599
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 532
Image Count:
1416
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris and various treatises on grammar and rhetoric bound together and Contains St. Basilius, De legendis gentilium libris, fols. 2r-14v, on vellum; Constantinus Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium, fols. 75r-104v, 196r-199r; Georgios Choeroboskos, Grammatica, fols. 107r-129r; Manuel the Rhetorician, Opusculum, fols. 134r-136r; Theodorus Prodromus, Erotemata, fols. 137r-160v; Michael Syncellus, De constructione libellus, fols. 178r-195v; Maximus Planudes, De constructione libellus, fols. 202r-233v; Corinthus, De dialectis, fols. 236r-262r; Phrynichus, Eclogae nominum et verborum Atticorum, fols. 282r-293v; Tryphon, De passionibus dictionum, fols. 296r-297v; Constantinus Lascaris, De pronominibus, fols. 344r-353r; Pythagoras, Aurea carmina, fol. 455r; Hymni Orphici, fols. 455r-460v; Michael Apostolios, Epistolae, fols. 463r-471r; Synesius Cyrenaeus, Epistolae, fols. 473r-574r; Theophylactus Simocatta, Dialogus, fols. 575r-587v; Astronomical Tables, fols. 619r-636v, 651r-664r. Also bound with Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris (Rome, 1518), which is not foliated and is bound between fols. 454 and 455
Alternative Title:
Address to young men
Description:
In Greek., Decoration: Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end., and Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Grammar, Comparative and general, Language and languages, Grammars, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric