Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1611

Images: Gallica

Other identifiers: Colbert. 4719

Physical description: paper, 220 × 150 mm, 445 fols.

Language: Greek

Date: 1553

Provenance: copied by the priest Demetrius

Contents:

Life and Martyrdom of Andrew (fols. 268v–282v); ending apparently lost, replaced with Epistle of the Presbyters and Deacons of Achaea beginning in ch. 18

Story of the Image of Edessa (fols. 290v–297v)

Martyrdom of Longinus the Centurion, by Symeon Metaphrastes (fols. 165r–169v)

Miracle of Michael the Archangel at Chonae (fols. 234v–245v)

Additional contents: hagiographa, Narrative of Moses and Joshua (CAVT 137).

Catalogs:

Halkin, François. Manuscripts grecs de Paris: Inventaire hagiographique. Subsidia hagiographica 44. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1968 (p. 130).

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. 106).

Omont, Henri A. and Hagiographi Bollandiani. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Parisiensis. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1896 (pp. 279–81).

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. 864–67).

Other online databases: Pinakes; Biblissima; BnF

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 20 March 2022.