Western Medieval Manuscripts : Contents list

Western Medieval Manuscripts

<p style='text-align: justify;'>This fragment is a single folio from a manuscript that was probably copied in the 15th or early 16th century. It contains the last three items in a list of 33 texts, presumably the contents list of the manuscript; all those mentioned here are religious in content.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>A number of notes have been added by different hands, including a note dated 16 December 1529, which appears to record the purchase of the manuscript by the priest Kallistos Baruch from a monk named Niphos, and refers to a hieromonachos (priest and monk) named Maximos, perhaps as a witness to the transaction. Below, Niphos has written a note in a much less elegant hand, confirming what has been stated above, giving the same date and recording the place where the transaction occurred as the village of Sagoudi. This was perhaps the place of that name in Crete.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dr Christopher Wright</p>