Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1853

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Other shelf number(s): Aland miniscule 2769 (Matthew)

Physical description: parchment, 32 × 23.5 cm., 124 fols., 1 col.

Language(s): Greek

Date: underwriting 10th cent.; overwriting 1173

Provenance: Monastery of Studites in Constantinople

Contents:

Acts of John (Metastasis, fols. 113, 112, 123, 118, 117, 124, 114, 111 )

Acts of Paul and Thecla (fols. 99 and 96v)

Life and Miracles of Thecla (fols. 94, 96, 5, 38, 45, 39, 44)

Additional Contents: underwriting is a pre-Metaphrastic menologion for September with several additional hagiographical texts along with the Gospel of Matthew. Overwriting is liturgica.

Catalogs:

Canart, Paul. Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1745–1962. Vatican City: Bibliothecae Vaticanae, 1970 (pp. 345–47).

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. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1937–1952 (vol. 1, pp. 440–42).

Follieri, Henrica. Codices graeci Bibliothecae Vaticanae selecti. Vatican City: Bibliothecae Vaticanae, 1969 (pp. 57–59 and table 38).

Garitte, Gérard. “Fragments palimpsestes de l’Agathange grec.” Mus 56 (1943): 44–58.

Junod, Éric, and Jean-Daniel Kaestli. Acta Iohannis. CCSA 1–2. Turnhout: Brepols, 1983 (vol. 1, p. 32).

Mercati, Giovani. Note di letteratura biblica e cristiana antica. Studi e Testi 5. Rome: Tipografia Vaticana, 1901 (pp. 213–26).

Other online databases: Pinakes; Dunbarton Oaks; Biblissima

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 15 October 2021.