London, British Library, Add. 11870

Images: British Library

Physical description: parchment (with some paper), 32 × 20.5 cm., ii+273+ii fols., 2 col.

Language(s): Greek

Date: 11th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Symeon Metaphrastes, Menologion for the month of September, featuring:

Miracle of Michael the Archangel at Chonae (fols. 60^r–66^v)

Acts of Cornelius (fols. 108^r–117^r)

Martyrdom of Thecla, by Symeon Metaphrastes (fols. 174^v–188^r)

Hypomnema on John, by Symeon Metaphrastes (fols. 197^v–218^v)

Additional Contents: none

Catalogs:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1841–1845. London: British Museum, 1850 (p. 13).

Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson. Illustrated Manuscripts of the Metaphrastian Menologion. Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination 54. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 (pp. 118–25)

Van de Vorst, C. and H. Delehaye. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graecorum Germaniae, Belgii, Angliae. Subsidia Hagiographica 13. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1913 (pp. 264–65).

Other online databases: Pinakes; British Library

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 3 January 2018.