Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Coislin 296

Images: Gallica

Other shelf number(s): olim Seguerianus 83

Physical description: parchment, 230 × 170 mm, 245 fols., 1 col.

Language: Greek

Date: 12th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Birth of John the Forerunner (fols. 12r–13v)

Names of the Apostles and Their Parents (fols. 31v–32r)

List of the Apostles and Disciples, by Pseudo-Hippolytus of Thebes (fols. 32r–33r)

Additional contents:  hagiographa, sermons of Pseudo-Eusebius of Alexandria, and works of John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil of Caesarea, and others.

Catalogs:

Devreesse, Robert. Bibliothèque Catalogue des manuscrits grecs, II: Le Fonds Coislin. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1945 (pp. 277–81).

Dobschütz, Ernst von. “Coislinianus 296.” BZ 12 (1903): 534–67.

Omont, Henri A. and Hagiographi Bollandiani. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Parisiensis. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1896 (pp. 309–11).

Other online databases: Pinakes; BnF

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 10 April 2020.