Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 443

Images: Gallica

Other shelfmark(s): Colbert 845

Physical description: parchment, no measurements provided, 166 fols., 2 cols. (lower writing; 1 col. upper writing)

Language: Greek

Date: lower text 9/10th cent.; upper text 1272/1273 (by Longinus)

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Protevangelium of James (fols. 25, 18)

Discovery of John the Baptist’s Head (fols. 121, 37, 36, 125)

Dormition of the Virgin by the Apostle John (fols. 9, 15, 16, 67, 110, 114, 2)

Miracle of Michael the Archangel at Chonae (fols. 133r–133v)

Additional contents: upper text has works by Pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor; lower texts has works of John Chrysostom and others.

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. 1, pp. 92–95).

Halkin, François. Manuscripts grecs de Paris: Inventaire hagiographique. Subsidia Hagiographica 44. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1968 (pp. 13–14).

Noret, Jacques. “Le palipseste Parisinus gr. 443.” AnBoll 88 (1970): 141–52.

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. 48).

Other online databases: Pinakes

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 28 May 2020.