Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1215

Images: Gallica

Other shelf-mark(s): olim Colbert 4504; Regius 29835

Physical description: parchment, 20.5 × 18 cm, 211 fols., 1 col.

Language: Greek

Date: 1080, copied by the monk Neophyte (fol. 211v)

Provenance: Cyprus

Contents:

Protevangelium of James (fols. 10r–27v)

Dormition of the Virgin by the Apostle John (fols. 114v–128v)

2 Homily on the Dormition  of the Virgin, by John of Damascus (fols. 129r–155v)

Additional contents: works on the Virgin Mary by Andrew of Crete, John Chrysostom, Gregory Thaumaturgus, and others.

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. 3, pp. 520–21).

Halkin, François. Manuscripts grecs de Paris: Inventaire hagiographique. Subsidia hagiographica 44. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1968 (pp. 146–47).

Omont, Henri A. Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque nationale et des autres bibliothèques de Paris et des départements. 4 vols. 1886–1888. Paris: E. Leroux, 1898 (p. 267–68).

Omont, Henri A. and Hagiographi Bollandiani. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Parisiensis. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1896 (pp. 102–103).

Other online databases: Pinakes; BNF

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 26 June 2020.