Images: INTF (portions)
Other shelfmark(s): olim Supra 8; Aland 0306
Physical description: vellum, 23 × 14 cm, 127 fols. (missing fols. 90–99), 1 col.; original foliation by Coxe corrected by Turyn
Language(s): Greek
Date: upper script 1340; lower scripts 9th/10th to 12th cent.
Provenance: overwriting by Constantinos in Magedon
Contents:
Life and Conduct of John the Baptist (fols. 50v–53v; beginning also on fol. 93v, illeg.)
Homily on the Dormition of the Virgin, by John of Thessalonica (fols. 59r–69r)
Acts of John by Prochorus (fols. 110v–113v) ~ excerpt
Acts of Matthew (epitome; fols. 114r–119v)
Additional Contents: underwriting liturgical materials, Old Testament lectionary, and Gospel of John; overwriting hagiographa, homilies by John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, and others.
Catalogs:
Coxe, H. O. Greek Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues I, repr. 1969 (with corrections, from the ed. of 1853) col. 588 and col. 589.
Ehrhard, Albert. Uberlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahhunderts. 3 vols. TU 50–52. Leipzing: Hinrichs, 1937–1952 (vol. 3, pp. 760–61).
Delahaye, Hippolyte, and Charles van de Vorst. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum graecorum Germaniae, Belgii, Angliae. Subsidia Hagiographica 13. Brussels: Société Bollandistes, 1913 (pp. 344–45).
Turyn, Alexander. Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain. Dumbarton Oaks Studies 17. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1980 (pp. 105–106, images 73 and 114d).
Other online databases: Pinakes; Bodleian; Paratexts of the Bible
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 17 April 2021.