{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin", "value": "The style of script suggests that the fragment was probably copied in the late 10th century." }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "The lower half of the folio has been lost. There is water staining and areas of dirt, and some of the ink is abraded." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "
The text was copied in an upright mixed minuscule<\/i> script, slanting slightly to the right, in black ink, with minimal variation in letter size.<\/p>
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings do not appear. Breathings are round, but many have been overwritten with angular breathings by a correcting hand. Mute iota<\/i> is absent. Nomina sacra are unaccentuated.<\/p>
Majuscule letter-forms in use include beta<\/i>, lambda<\/i>, xi<\/i> and sigma<\/i>.<\/p>
Punctuation used includes the lower and upper points and lower, middle and upper commas. The question mark is present, but this has been added by a later hand.<\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Owned by the Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874)." }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "
This fragment consists of about half of a folio, which was probably copied in the late 10th century. It contains part of a dialogue composed in the early 5th century by the Anatolian bishop Palladius to defend his recently deceased mentor John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople (347-407), who had been accused of various doctrinal errors and deposed from office at the instigation of the emperor Arcadius (377/8-408). Palladius wrote this work while in exile, having been banished himself for his support of the ousted patriarch.<\/p>
The folio this fragment belonged to was probably divided in two to be reused for endleaves in a smaller book. Much of the available blank space in its margins has been used for notes by a variety of later hands. One of these wrote a list of items belonging to a priest named Theodoros, including articles of clothing, pieces of cloth and two Gospel books, while another recorded two recipes for medicine for haemorrhoids.<\/p>
Dr Christopher Wright<\/p>" }, { "label": "Former Owner(s)", "value": "Tischendorf, Constantin von, 1815-1874" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "late 10th century" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Dialogus de vita Johannis Chrysostomi" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Christopher Wright" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Parchment" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1879.22" }, { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "TLG 2111.004" }, { "label": "Acquisition", "value": "Bought by the University Library from Tischendorf's executors in 1876." }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
There are numerous corrections to the main text by a crude later hand in brown ink.<\/p>
There are various notes in Greek in several different later hands. Among those on the recto<\/a> is a list of possessions of the priest Theodoros from Avlona: \"Τοῦ παπᾶ Θεοδόρου εκ τοῦ Αὐλόνα. εὐαγγελία<\/i> βιβλία βʹ· ἡποτραχίλὴν· νὲμαν βαβακριον κομάτα· γʹ λινὸν κομάτὴν, αʹ· φουστάνὴν πυχαις· ηʹ· καὶ άλλ<\/i>α τινὰ:- αρδα· αʹ μεσαλὴν σʹ\".<\/p>