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Smith Western Add. MS 10 | | Description: ff. 273 - In vellum, s. XVIII. - Bookplate of Hon. Frederick North (1766-1827); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his n. 5535 (without Middle Hill stamp); acquired with a fund established by David Eugene Smith (1860-1944). | | Acknowledgments: - Dr. Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann kindly supplied the information for this description. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 15 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/SmithWesternAdd.MS10_20 | | Language: Greek Country: Byzantium Century: 13th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-273v | | Description: - Paper, oriental - 250 x 160 mm - 23 lines. | | Country: Byzantium | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: Constantinople | | Assigned Date: s. XIII2 | Searchable Date Range: 1250 - 1299 | | Dated by scribe: Yes | Inscribed Date: 1296, September | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;4 (?) | | Scribe(s): Symeon KalliandresGeorge ChioniadesTheodoros Kazanopoulos | | Script: Minuscule with features of "beta-gamma" and "Fettaugenmode" scripts. | | Other Decoration: Ornamental rubricated Byzantine capitals opening each chapter; red headpieces opening each book; 6 full-page astronomical diagrams. | | Notes: The scholia, almost certainly original, are dated 1301/1302. The commissioner of the scholia, and, very probably, of the ms itself, was Theodoulos, who may be identifiable with the Theodoulos, metropolitan of Rhodos and the Cycladic Islands. Breakdown of the scribal hands is: Symeon Kalliandres (?; text); George Chioniades (some scholia); Theodoros Kazanopoulos (ff. 272-273v). Greek | | Number of Texts: 4 |
| | Text 1: ff. 4r-69v | | Author: John of Damascus | | Title: Dialectica sive Capita philosophica (Τῷ ὁσιωτ(ά)τ(ῳ) καὶ θεοτιμήτῳ Κοσμᾷ, ἁγιωτ(ά)τ(ῳ)) | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: Τὸ μὲν στενὸν τῆς διανοίας καὶ τὸ ἄπορον | | Explicit: Λύρα ἐστὶν ἱστὸς διὰ νεύρων ἐσκευασμένη. | |
| | Text 2: ff. 72r-271v | | Author: John of Damascus | | Title: Τοῦ μακαρίου Ἰω(άνν)ου Δαμασκηνοῦ ἔκδοσις ἀκριβὴς τῆς ὀρθοδόξου πίστεως… | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: Θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἑώρακε πώποτε. Ὁ μονογενὴς υἱὸς | | Explicit: καὶ ἄληκτον τὴν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ εὐφροσύνην καρπούμενοι. | | Notes: With scholia. ff. 1-3v added later, in two or three hands, containing letter of George Chioniades to Theodulus and an introduction to the work of John of Damascus. Incipit as given here is on f. 75. | 
| f. 72
Marginal note by the scribe of the commentary attributing the commissioning of the scholia.
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| | Text 3: ff. 272r-273r | | Author: Julian, emperor | | Other Associate: Basil | | Title: Ἰουλιανὸ(ς) βασιλεὺς βασιλείῳ ἐπισκόπ(ῳ) Καισαρεί(ας) Καππαδοκίας | | Title:
Exchange of letters
| | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: Τὸ ἔμφυτόν μοι ἐκ παιδόθεν γαληνὸν | | Explicit: τίς γὰρ Θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων μεσίτης εὑρεθείη; εἰ γὰρ ἀνέγνως κατέγνως, οὐκ ἄν ἀνέγνως. | |
| | Text 4: f. 273r-v | | Title:
Division of philosophy (practical, gnostical, theological)
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