Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1989

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Physical description: parchment, 34 × 25.5 cm., 244 fols., 2 col.; the first portion of this manuscript compilation (fols. 1r–142v) is a menologion for November/December that is continued in a second fragment bound into Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vat. gr. 1991, fols. 152r–170v; the second portion contains various hagiographical texts

Language(s): Greek

Date: 11th/12th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Acts of Philip (martyrdom; fols. 74r–87r)

Decapitation of John the Forerunner (fols. 232r–234r)

Additional Contents: martyrdoms, homilies 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. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1937–1952 (vol. 1, pp. 416–17; 3, pp. 874–75).

Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Pio. Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum graecorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae. Subsidia Hagiographica 7. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1899 (pp. 175f.).

Other online databases: Pinakes

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 2 January 2017.