Alternative title
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. 226r–260v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria (PLP no. 29896.), who is the main scribe and the organizer of this volume as well as of its sister volume, Codex Upsaliensis graecus 28A. Writes in a distinct digraphic way, with one more calligraphic variant, suggestive of the Metochitesstil, and one more narrow and cursive minuscule.
Unit II: ff. 261r:1–261:6, 277r–316v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria. Responsible for the first few lines and the second half of the unit, as well as marginal lemmata in the quires composed for the rest by Scribe C. His initiating the text in his spruce minuscule on ff. 261r–261 would seem to indicate a tutor-pupil, or supervisor-subordinate, relationship between the two scribes. ff. 261r:7–276v Scribe C, another collaborator of Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria, as is also evident from marginal notes by the latter, present on the same pages. The hand is a mid-fourteenth century ornate cursive minuscule, with a tendency to let the up- and downstrokes colonize the margins and the space between lines. The impression is a densely woven fabric.
Unit III: ff. 317r–378v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria.
Unit IV: ff. 379r–394v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria.
Unit V: ff. 395r–396r, 399r–402r Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria. The rubrics on f. 396v and f. 398v are also in his hand. f. 402v is blank. ff. 396v–398v Scribe B, collaborator to Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria. Displays a cursive minuscule script is not altogether different from the cursive variant of the main hand. Scribe B has contributed also in quires Q9, Q13–14, and Q18 in Gr. 28A.
Unit VI: ff. 403r–437r Scribe D, collaborator to Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria, with the exception of the first title and a few lines on the last page. Writes in so-called Metochitesstil. Resembles Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria’s more calligraphic variant of writing. ff. 437v–440v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria. He also contributed the title on f. 403r and added a few lines mid-page on f. 437r.
Unit VII: ff. 441r–448v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria.
Unit VIII: ff. 449r–456v Scribe A, Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria.
- Collation: Endleaves: 1/2f.ii 2/1f.ii’
Unit I: Q29–324.IVf.257 + Q33(II-1post f.258)f.260
Unit II: Q34–407.IVf.316
Signatures: In the upper right margin of the first recto and, a couple of times also in the lower right margin of the last verso. In red ink on f. 269r βʹ; in brown ink on the following pages: γʹ f. 277r δʹ f. 285r εʹ ff. 293r, 300v ϛʹ ff. 301r, 308v ζʹ ff. 309r, 316v
Unit III: Q41–477.IVf.372 + Q48IIIf.378
Signatures: Traces of quire signatures on f. 332v (lower right margin, in brown), and on f. 355r (upper right margin, in red).
Unit IV: Q49–502.IVf.394
Unit V: Q51IVf.402
Unit VI: Q52–554.IVf.434 + Q56IIIf.440
Signatures: For the most part given in the lower center margin of last verso and first recto; the Gamma also in the upper right margin of the first recto: βʹ ff. 411r, 418v γʹ ff. 419r, 426v δʹ ff. 427r, 434v εʹ f. 435r
Unit VII: Q57IVf.448
Unit VIII: A quaternion pieced together from restored leaves.
- Foliation: Foliation partly in ink, partly in pencil: 226–456.
Notes
Literature
Norrmann (1691–1694)
Foerster (1877)
Graux (1889) pp. 53–55
Foerster (1903–1927) vol. 9 pp. 145–146
Lindstam (1910) pp. LIV–LX
Hermelin (1934)
Karlsson (1981)
Harlfinger (1996) pp. 47–48
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 × 60 mm
Decoration
Unit I:
Titles, initials, marginalia and a plethora of interlinear glosses in red ink. Most initials are plain or with just a small flourish. On (f. 226) a simple headpiece made up from a couple of lines and two trefoils.
Unit II:
Titles, initials, and marginal lemmata in red ink. Little or no flourish at all on initials.
Unit III:
Decoration sparse: on the first page, (f. 317r), a title in red ink, a headpiece in the form of a single wavy line with dots and end flowers, and the only more ornamented initial, six lines in height. Otherwise, red initials are fairly plain. The triangular-shaped text ending on (f. 377r) is accompanied by a couple of red crosses. Paragraph numbers have been added secondarily in the margins, in a pale brown ink (αʹ–ρλδʹ). No glosses.
Unit IV:
Titles and plain red initials in red ink. A few reading signs in the margins, written in the same dark brown ink as the main text.
Unit V:
Some titles and initials in red ink. The greenish-brown ink which Philotheos Metropolitan of Selymbria used for everything on (ff. 395r–396r) was also employed for the replacement title on (f. 399r).
Unit VI:
Titles, initials, and marginalia in red ink. A headpiece in red on (f. 403r), displaying a double frame, a wavescroll in the space left blank, and corner beads.
Unit VII:
Title and one plain initial in red ink on (f. 441r). In the margin of (f. 444r) there are simple binary diagrams of basic concepts.
Unit VIII:
Titles, initials, and marginalia in red ink; in some places faded and rewritten.
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Uppsala University LibraryCarolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1Box 510
SE 751 20 Uppsala
- Shelfmark: Gr. 28B
- Previous shelfmark: Olim Benzelius 2
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-197227 (nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:197227 (alvin)
Licensing of the work
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