Mount Athos, Monē Megistes Lavras, Δ 50

Images: Library of Congress (fols. 33r–40v only)

Other identifier(s): Eustratiades 426

Physical description: vellum, 31 × 25 cm., 407 fols., 2 cols.

Language(s): Greek

Date: 1039

Provenance: Constantinople

Contents:

Protevangelium of James (fols. 33r–40v)

Acts of Paul and Thecla (fols. 86v–93v)

Acts of John by Prochorus (with Acts of John chs. 56–57; fols. 100–114)

Acts of Thomas (fols. 122r–135v)

Dormition of Luke (fols. 177r–178v)

Additional contents: Pre-Metaphrastic Menologion for September to December with numerous hagiographical texts.

Catalogs:

Ehrhard, Albert. Uberlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts. 3 vols. TU 50–52. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1937–1952 (vol. 1, pp. 349–53).

Eustratiades, Sophronios, and Spyridon. Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts in the Library of the Laura on Mount Athos. HTS 22. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925 (pp. 60–61).

Junod, Éric, and Jean-Daniel Kaestli. Acta Iohannis. CCSA 1–2. Turnhout: Brepols, 1983 (description in vol. 1, p. 25).

Other online databases: Pinakes

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 25 October 2021.