Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 520

Images: Gallica

Physical description: parchment, 33 × 25 cm, 440 pp., 2 cols.

Language: Greek

Date: 10th/11th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Acts of John in Rome (pp. 50–59)

Acts of Paul and Thecla (pp. 39–50)

Discovery of John the Baptist’s Head (in two forms: pp. 78–84, 84–96)

Additional contents: hagiographa and works by John Chrysostom, Ps-Eusebius of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, 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. 388–89; vol. 2, pp. 165–67).

Halkin, François. Manuscripts grecs de Paris: Inventaire hagiographique. Subsidia Hagiographica 44. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1968 (pp. 24–25).

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 (pp. 70–71).

Omont, Henri A. and Hagiographi Bollandiani. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Parisiensis. Brussels: Société des Bollandists, 1896 (pp. 11–13).

Other online databases: Pinakes

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]),13 July 2020.