Images: Mandragore (illuminated pages only)
Former shelf number(s): Medic.-Reg. 2012
Physical description: parchment, 312 × 212 mm, 224 fols., 2 cols.
Language: Greek
Date: 12th cent.
Provenance: unknown
Contents:
Hypomnema on Peter and Paul (fols. 47v–62v)
Story of the Image of Edessa (fols. 182r–197r)
Hypomnema on John the Baptist, by Symeon Metaphrastes (fols. 197r–216r)
Illuminations:
Peter and Paul (fol. 47v)
Martyrdoms of Paul and Peter (fol. 62v)
Birth and Dormition of the Virgin (fol. 153r)
Abgar receives a letter from Christ (fol. 181v)
Painting a Portrait of Jesus (fol. 181v)
Baptism of Abgar V (fol. 182r)
Birth and Decapitation of John the Baptist, Annunciation to Zechariah (fol. 197r)
Discovery of John the Baptist’s Head (fol. 216r)
Abdias (fol. 218v)
Additional contents: 4 Maccabees, and hagiographa for August.
Catalogs:
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. 2, p. 625).
Halkin, François. Manuscripts grecs de Paris: Inventaire hagiographique. Subsidia hagiographica 44. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1968 (p. 198).
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 (vol. 2, p. 80).
Omont, Henri A., and Hagiographi Bollandiani. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Parisiensis. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1896 (pp. 224–25).
Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson. Illustrated Manuscripts of the Metaphrastian Menologion. Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination 54. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 (pp. 137–47).
Other online databases: Pinakes; BnF; Biblissima
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 17 January 2021.