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The manuscript was copied by the scribe Michael, who was active in Italy around the middle of the 16th century ( Kresten (1976), pp. 57-58 suggests a date in the years 1546-1556) <\/p>" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Italy" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "In the opinion of M. R. James (1900, p. 263) the manuscript could have been owned by Thomas Nevile (ca. 1548-1615), Master of Trinity College and Dean of Canterbury. However, there are no elements in the manuscript itself indicating such provenance; moreover, in the list of manuscripts donated to the College by Thomas Nevile contained in the Trinity College Memoriale (MS R.17.8)<\/a>, made in about 1614, no entry seems to correspond to this manuscript." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Codex i + 138 + i Leaf height: 360 mm, width: 247 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "The Polonsky Foundation" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "the middle of the 16th century" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.9.5" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Nevile, Thomas, -1615" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "

On the left pastedown<\/a> is written, in red pencil, the shelfmark \" B.9.5\".<\/p>

In the upper margin of f. 1r<\/a> is written the shelfmark \" B.9.5\".<\/p>

On f. 138r<\/a> there is a note about the circumstances of composition of the last text by Anastasius of Antioch, by a later hand, \" Scripsit hunc librum in exilio Anastasius Antiochenus cum esset in exilio sede episcopali ejectus 12[<\/i>8<\/i>]<\/i> B. p. \"<\/p>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Church history; Christian literature, Byzantine" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Codex" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Description (2021) draws partly on M. R. James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge<\/i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900), vol. 1, pp. 263-264." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Greek" }, { "label": "Scribe(s)", "value": "Michael (16th century)" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Western full leather cover over pasteboards. Gold tooling on the boards' edges. Blind tooling on both covers: rectangular frame of triple-fillets with leaves at the corners. On the spine, gold tooling on a red square with title \" Anastasii | Antiocheni | M.S.\" and three paper labels with the shelfmark. The edges are coloured in red. Binding height: 365 mm, width: 255 mm, depth: 45 mm. <\/p> The cover is damaged near the edges; the spine is partially split from the boards." }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "The manuscript is in good condition. There are a few brown stains throughout." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

ff. 1r-137v<\/a> Hand A: the texts have been written by Michael (16th century), ( Μιχαήλ, RGK III, 475), a scribe active in Venice.<\/p>

The text is written in a light brown ink; titles and initials in red.<\/p><\/div>

Hand a: throughout, there are a few marginal notes by a later hand, in black ink, see e.g. ff. 4v-5r, 14v<\/a>. <\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Trinity College Library, Cambridge" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

This manuscript contains a Byzantine Church History and other texts<\/i>. The Church History with which the manuscript begins is anonymous, but has traditionally been attributed to Gelasius of Cyzicus, on the basis of a mention by patriarch Photius in his Bibliotheca<\/i>, (see Hansen (2002), pp. ix-xii). The work consists mainly of a collection of Acts of the Council of Nicaea (325 CE), which condemned the heresy of Arianism. The Church History is followed by texts by the early Christian father Athanasius (c. 297-373) (a well known opponent of this heresy), Theodore of Rhaithu (7th century), and Anastasius, patriarch of Antioch (d. 598). <\/p>

The manuscript was copied around the middle of the 16th century in Italy by a scribe named Michael. He worked within a group of scribes active in Venice around this time, producing manuscripts showing recurrent codicological characteristics: for example, the use of a folio format, a layout in a single column of 30 lines, and so forth (see B. Mondrain, 'Copistes et collectionneurs de manuscrits grecs au milieu du XVIe siècle: le cas de Johann Jakob Fugger d\u2019Augsbourg', in Byzantinische Zeitschrift<\/i> 84-85, 2 (1992), pp. 354-390), which features also occur in this manuscript. Michael's hand has also been identified in another manuscript containing the same Byzantine Church History<\/i> accompanied by texts by Athanasius, Theodore of Rhaithu and Anastasius: Madrid, Biblioteca nacional de España, 4672<\/a>, on ff. 320r-430v (see Kresten (1976), pp. 57-58). These two codices are linked from the point of view of the tradition of the texts, in particular the text by Anastasius (see Kresten (1973), p. 57; and Weiss, p. 72, MSS C and M)<\/p>

Dr Erika Elia<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Byzantine Church History and other texts" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Erika Elia" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Western paper, folded in folio Watermarks: ff. 1-128<\/a> Anchor <\/i> in a circle surmounted by a six point star, countermark \" T C \" with a clover ( Watermark height: 69 mm, width: 41 mm. ) in the centre of the leaf, identical with Sosower Ancre<\/i> 95, which is dated to ca. 1554. ff. 129-137<\/a> Anchor <\/i> in a circle surmounted by a six point star, countermark \" B E \" ( Watermark height: 66 mm, width: 45 mm. ) in the centre of the leaf, very similar to Sosower Ancre<\/i> 47, which is dated to 1557 (Venice). f. 138<\/a> Three mountains <\/i> in a circle surmounted by a double line ending in a Greek cross ( Watermark height: 84 mm, width: 40 mm. ) in the centre of the leaf, comparable to the type Briquet Monts<\/i> 11912, which is dated to 1515, but with variants until 1527-1546. ff. [i], [ii]<\/a> Coat of arms <\/i> with name \"P MAVDVIT\" ( Watermark height: 100 mm, width: 70 mm. ) in the centre of the leaf, similar to the type Heawood Coat of arms<\/i> 672, which is dated to ca. 1680-93 (London)." }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "

The manuscript consists of quaternions. F. 137 is a single leaf, where the text ends, made of the same paper of quire 17. F. 138 is a single leaf made up of a different paper, also datable to the 16th c. Ff. [i] and [ii] are later endleaves of the 17th c. <\/p>