Alternative title
Codex Rolambianus
Samlingshandskrift med huvudsakligen epistolografiskt innehåll
Language
Persons
Origin
Konstantinopel, Mid-14th c.
Physical description
Material: paper
Format: Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
- Script: Unit I: ff. 1r–17v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria, who is the main scribe and the organizer of the volume (PLP no. 29896.). Writes in a distinct digraphic way, with one more calligraphic variant, suggestive of the Metochitesstil, and one more narrow and cursive minuscule. The styles may be compared, e.g., on f. 1r, where the pinax on the upper half differs from the letter recorded below. That the two variants are by the same scribe is evident from other parts of the volume, where the two styles constantly take turns and also sometimes appear to transform into each other. The scribal hand, in both its digraphic variants, seems to be indentical to the one represented in the Princeton Gospel book Princeton y1957-19; that manuscript includes a colophon providing the name of Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria and the year 1379–1380.
Unit II: ff. 18r–75r Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria; cf. the preceding unit. ff. 75v–76v Scribe B (except for the rubric on f. 75v, which is by Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria). This cursive minuscule script is not altogether different from the cursive variant of the main hand, but should, according to Dieter Harlfinger’s palaeographical analysis, nevertheless be seen as another hand; cf. Karlsson (1981) p. 23.. Scribe B has contributed also in Q13–14 and Q18, and is responsible for a few folios in Gr. 28B.
Unit III: ff. 77r–101v, 108r–109v, 120r–128v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria; cf. preceding units. ff. 102r–107v, 110r–119v Scribe B, the collaborator of Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria; cf. the preceding unit.
Unit IV: ff. 129r–150v:19, 151v:15–151v:28 Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria; cf. preceding units. ff. 150v:20–151v:14 Scribe B; cf. codicological units 2–3.
Unit V: ff. 152r–172v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria; cf. preceding units.
Unit VI: ff. 173r–225v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria, who has contributed in all units of the volume (cf. codicological units 1–5).
- Collation: Endleaves: 1/2f.ii 2/1f.ii’
Unit I: Q1(IV + 1f.1)f.9 + Q2IVf.17
Unit II: Q3–53.IVf.41 + Q6(IV42^49; 43–48 are artificial bifolia+1f.50)f.50 + Q7IVf.58 + Q8Vf.68 + Q9IVf.76
Unit III: Q10–134.IVf.108 + Q14VIf.120 + Q15IVf.128
Unit IV: Q16–172.IVf.144 + Q18(III+1f.151)f.151
Unit V: Q19–202.IVf.167 + Q21(III-1post f.171)f.172
Unit VI: Q22–232.IVf.188 + Q24IIIf.194 + Q25(V-1post f.195-2post f.196)f.201 + Q26–283.IVf.225
- Foliation: Foliation partly in ink, partly in pencil: 1–225.
Abstract
Notes
Literature
Norrmann (1691–1694)
Foerster (1877)
Graux (1889) pp. 53-55
Foerster (1903–1927) vol. 9, pp. 145-146
Fritz (1905) p. 376
Lindstam (1910) pp. LIV-LX
Lindstam (1919–1920) pp. 62-65
Hermelin (1934)
Garzya (1973) p. 27
Karlsson (1981)
Harlfinger (1996) pp. 47-48 plates 10-12
Gastgeber (2010) pp. 419-421
Kotzabassi (2010) p. 479
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Book binding
Binding: Inboard binding covered in stained brown calfskin. Sewn on five supports. Stuck-on endbands in brown and reddish-brown. Blue edges. Binding title on spine: CODEX MS. GRAECUS. Gold-tooled decorations on spine compartments, bands, and board edges. The same kind of tooling is found on books bound by Johan Nilsson Norman, who was active as a bookbinder in Stockholm 1693–1723 and was employed as bookbinder to the King’s Library 1700–1714. Cf. Hedberg (1949–1960) vol. 1, pp. 301–303, ..
Binding dimensions: 230 × 170 × 55 mm
Decoration
Unit I: Rubrics, glosses, and a few larger initials in red ink. The headpiece on (f. 2r) is rather plain; just lines and dots, and a couple of flourishes.
Unit II: Titles, initials, marginalia and glosses in red ink. Most initials are plain; larger flourished initials on ff. 18r, 74v. An elaborate headpiece on (f. 18r), where the red ink is used to create white vine scrolls and palmettes in the voids.
Unit III: Rubrics, glosses, marginalia, and rather plain initials in red ink. A few examples of more ambitious initials in pale red ink; see, e.g., the Epsilon on (f. 104v). A simple geometric figure in the margin of (f. 106v).
Unit IV: Titles, initials, marginalia and glosses in red ink. Most initials are plain or with just a small flourish. On (f. 129r) a simple headpiece made up from a couple of lines and four trefoils. Astrological and planetary symbols in the margins, passim. On (f. 131v) a cosmological diagram showing Pythagoras’ eight-corded lyre.
Unit V: Titles, initials, and some marginal glosses in red ink. A flourished Epsilon on (f. 164r). A couple of reading signs on (f. 152r) (ὡρ(αῖον) ) and (f. 166v) (ση(μείωσαι) and a pointing hand).
Unit VI: Titles, initials, and marginal glosses in faded red, or pale brown ink, on (ff. 173r–194v), in bright red ink on (ff. 195r–225v). For examples of flourished initials, see the quadrangular Beta with unfilled crosses and trefoils on (f. 179v), a Delta furnished with a vine, dots, and tendrils on (f. 181r). Similar embellishments are used also for the bright red initials later in the unit; see, e.g., the Rho on (f. 210v), and Psi on (f. 221v) 210v. A pointing hand on (f. 176v).
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Uppsala University LibraryCarolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1Box 510
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- Shelfmark: Gr. 28A
- Previous shelfmark: Olim Benzelius 2
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urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-197225 (nbn)
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