Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1506

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Other shelf number(s): olim Grottaferrata 47

Physical description: parchment, 296 × 232 mm., 80 fols., 2 cols.

Language(s): Greek

Date: 1024

Provenance: copied by Athanasius; perhaps from the border regions of Calabria and Campania; a note places the manuscript in Messina in the 13th cent. (fol. 59v)

Contents:

List of the Apostles (Anonymus I) (fols. 78r–78v)

List of the Apostles and Disciples (Anonymus II) (fols. 78v–80v)

Additional Contents: Apostolic Constitutions, excerpts from works by Gregory of Nazienzus and Epiphanius of Salamis.

Catalogs and Studies:

Giannelli, Ciro. Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae . . . Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1485–1683. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1950 (pp. 41–43).

Mercati, G. “Note on the Manuscripts of the Apostolic Constitutions Used in the editio princeps.” JTS 15 (1914): 453–54

Other online databases: Pinakes; DigiVatLib (bibliography)

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 24 January 2022.