Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 544

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Physical description: parchment, measurements not known, 257 fols., 2 cols.

Language(s): Greek

Date: 11th cent. (underwriting), 12th cent. (overwriting)

Provenance: overwriting copied by Antonios in 1143 (fol. 257r).

Contents:

Acts of Thomas (fols. 45, 138, 111, 84, 106, 143, 44, 114, 95, 124, 125, 90, 119)

Dormition of Luke (fols. 101v, 92, 33)

Acts of Philip (fols. 202v; 137, 176, 181, 144, 203, 170, 189, 186, 183, 204; Martyrdom)

Protevangelium of James (fols. 107, 16, 9, 110, 63, 30, 41, 94, 115)

Acts of Paul and Thecla (fols. 97, 194, 1, 32, 39, 46, 43, 34)

Acts of John in Rome (fols. 34v, 25, 8, 35, 80, 17, 112)

Additional Contents: homilies of John Chrysostom (overwriting), hagiographies.

Catalogs and Studies:

Canart, Paul. “Les palimpsestes des fonds grecs de la Bibliothèque Vaticane. Une liste sommaire et quelques précisions.” Pages 1311–21 in vol. 2 of Études de paléographie et de codicologie. Reproduites avec la collaboration de Maria Luisa Agati et Marco D’Agostino. Edited by Paul Canart, Maria Luisa Agati, and Marco D’Agostino. Studi e testi 451. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2008.

Devreesse, Robert, ed. Codices Vaticani graeci, vol. 2: Codices 330–603. Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codices manuscripti recensiti. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1937.

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. 249–751).

Other online databases: Pinakes; Biblissima

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 7 February 2020.