MS Add. 3050

MS Add. 3050 The Polonsky Foundation Suzanne Paul University Library

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This small manuscript contains a Nomocanon in 220 chapters. The Nomocanon is a collection of ecclesiastical regulations (canons) and civil laws relating to ecclesiastical matters. The manuscript was written by a single scribe, who notes that this copy was completed in the year 1669. Dr. Erika Elia

Greek ff. 1r-126v Nomocanon ff. 1r-114r Nomocanon f. 1r Νομοκάνονον πάνη ὀφέλημον, καὶ πλουσιώτατον· νουθεσήα εἰς τὸν πνευματικὸν καὶ ἀσφάλια f. 1r Ὁ δεχόμενος τοὺς λογισμοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὀφείλει εἶναι f. 114r ὁμοίως καὶ τὸν προεστῶτα ἀτιμάζων f. 114r Τέλος. Τὸ νομοκάνονον καὶ ᾧ θεῷ δόξα Structure: chapters 1-12 13-19 Περὶ ἀρχιερέων 20-73 Περὶ κληρικῶν 74-113 Περὶ μοναχῶν 114-120 Περὶ ἱερομονάχων 121-221 Περὶ κοσμικῶν The same Nomocanon is present in MS Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Suppl. gr. 113, ff. 48r-130v (see H. Hunger, C. Hannick, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der õsterreichischen Nationalbibliotek, Teil 4: Supplementum Graecum, Wien 1994, pp. 194-195 f. 114r Colophon Ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα σήπελον χῶμα ἔργον δὲ θεοῦ εἰς μακραίωνα μένει. Ἕτη ͵αχξθ΄ ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ κατὰ βάσεως ff. 114v-116v Oratio super poenitentes f. 114v Εὐχὴ λεγομένη ὑπὸ ἀρχιερέων ἢ ὑπὸ πνευματικοῦ πατρὸς εἰς τοὺς μέλλοντας λαβεῖν τῶν ἀχράντων μυστυστηρίων τοῦ Χριστοῦ f. 114v Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστὲ ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν υἱὲ καὶ λόγε τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος, ποιμὴν καὶ ἀμνὲ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου f. 116v νῆν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰῶνων ἀμήν See with differencies R.P.J. Goar, Εὐχολόγιον sive rituale graecorum complectens ritus et ordines divinae liturgiae, Venice 1730, pp. 536-537 (TLG 5332.001) ff. 117r-126r Table of contents f. 117r Πίναξ άκριβὴς τοῦ παρόντος νομίμου f. 117r Περὶ πνευματικῶν πῶς δεῖ αὐτοὺς εἶναι καὶ τοῦ μὴ λύειν ετέρου πνευματικοῦ κρίσιν f. 126r Περὶ τοῦ ἀποβαλόντος τὸ ἅγιον σχῆμα τῶν μοναχῶν f. 126r Τέλος ὁ παρὸν πήναξ The chapters are numbered in red from α΄ (1) to σκ΄ (220) f. 126v Ὁμολογία τοῦ πνευματικοῦ f. 126v Ὁμολογία τοῦ πνευματικοῦ f. 126v Ἐπειδὴ συνήθεια ἐπεκράτησε κατὰ τὴν διάταξιν f. 126r αὐτὸν ἄξιον τῆς ἱεροσύνης. Ὁ ἐν ἱερομονάχοις ἐλάχιστος καὶ πνευματικὸς αὐτοῦ οδ. ἱερωμόναχος ff. 1-126 Western paper, folded in octavo. Watermarks: there are traces of watermarks near the upper or lower edge, near the gutter (and a countermark with letters and a clover in the centre of the leaf), but it was not possible to identify them. Codex 126 , 145 100 Modern foliation in pencil, in Arabic numerals, in the upper margin, right: 1-126.

The codex is formed of quires of 14, 16 and 18 leaves.

Quire 114 ff. 1-14 Quire 2 18 ff. 15-32 Quire 3 16 ff. 33-48 Quire 414 ff. 49-62 Quire 518 ff. 63-80 Quire 614 ff. 81-94 Quire 718 ff. 95-112 Quire 814 ff. 113-126

Vertical catchwords by the scribe on the verso of each leaf. The manuscript is in poor condition. The binding is damaged: both boards are lost, only the spine remains, the manuscript is preserved in a box. F. 1 is damaged, the ink has partially faded, there are tears, and a part of the leaf is missing. There are humidity and water stains throughout. ff. 1r-24v: a single column of 19-20 lines ff. 25r-31v: a single column of 14 lines ff. 32r-107v: a single column of 13 lines ff. 108r-126v: a single column of 21 lines 112 65

ff. 1r-126v Hand A: a minuscule script slanting to the right, flowing, characterized by hooks at the ends of strokes, and a tendency to prefer angular forms. Uprights are always curved and tend to be oblique.

The text is written in black ink on ff. 1r-24v, 32r-128v; the scribe uses a brown ink on ff. 25r-31v, where the line is also thicker. The scribe does not use iota subscript.

On f. 1r there is a rectangular headpiece traced in brown ink; in the centre there is a plaited motif on a black background; the headpiece has a red frame. Friezes are present throughout: f. 2r, 10r frieze representing a branch with leaves, traced in black ink with some elements coloured in red f. 14v rope motif, traced in black ink, partially filled in red ff. f. 114v, 117r friezes representing a branch, with knots, traced in black ink with a red line within f. 126r frieze representing a branch traced in red ink.

Initials in ekthesis in red ink decorated with vegetal motifs, see e.g. ff. 1r and 114v.

Minor initials in red ink, sometimes with small decoration, see e.g. ff. 113r and 113v.

Zoomorphic initials in red ink (fishes), see e.g. ff. 105v and 108v.

On f. 1r is written, in black ink, the shelfmark Add. 3050.

In the lower margin of f. 126v is written a number, by a later hand; the ink is faded, possibly 1828 (a date?).

Both boards have been lost, only the spine remains. It belonged to a western binding, and it is covered in brown leather with blind tooling in form of two flowers and a star. The manuscript is preserved in a box made by Wilson and son with gold tooled shelfmark. With the manuscript is kept a leaf of paper which was folded and used as a paper wrapper for the manuscript (see Accompanying Material).

In the box, with the manuscript, is kept a small folder containing some soft material (perhaps wool), which was inserted at f. 79.

With the manuscript comes, in a paper folder, a leaf ( 222 320 ), in western paper (no watermark is visible), which now has been sealed in a melinex envelope. Shadings and stains on the leaf suggest that it was once used as a wrapper for the manuscript: in the upper part, centre, there is a water stain, which corresponds with a similar stain in the upper part of the external leaves of the manuscript (see f. 1r), near the gutter. On the leaf there are handwritten notes in black ink: accounts, calculations, and some notes written in a late Greek hand, in modern Greek. The notes were written before the leaf was folded.

The manuscript was written in 1669, as the colophon on f. 114r states.

Owned by C. J. Cummings Cummings, C. J. of Volo. Bought by Cambridge University Library from Cummings in 1892 through H. C. Rae Rae, H. C. of Liverpool. Description (2021) draws partly on P. Easterling, 'Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge', in: Scriptorium 16 (1962), pp. 302-323: 319.

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Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge Patricia E. Easterling Scriptorium 16 2 302-323 1962 Library of Congress Subject Headings Nomocanon Erika Elia