Christ's College MS Rouse 265

Christ's College MS Rouse 265 The Polonsky Foundation Suzanne Paul University Library

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The manuscript contains a Nomocanon in 277 chapters in modern Greek. The Nomocanon is a collection of ecclesiastical regulations (canons) and civil laws relating to ecclesiastical matters. This codex was owned by the English teacher, classical scholar and educational reformer William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), fellow of Christ's College. He cited it as Nomocanon iii in an article he published in 1899 about Folklore from the Southern Sporades (Rouse 1899), where he stated that he had acquired it, with three other Greek manuscripts (Cambridge, Christ's College, 262, 264, and 266) in the neighbourhood of the Greek Isle of Cos. Dr. Erika Elia

Greek ff. 1r-107v Nomocanon Chapters are numbered α΄ (1) to σοζ΄ (277) Nomocanons beginning with the same words are found in MS Providence, Brown University, John Hay Library, Koopman Greek 3, f. 1r (see: N. Kavrus-Hoffmann, Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America, Part VI: Boston, Massachusetts, Miscellaneous Collections, and Providence, Rhode Island, Brown University, Manuscripta 56.1 (2012), 47-130 (p.111), and in MS Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Suppl. gr. 113, f. 48r, (see H. Hunger, C. Hannick, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 4, Wien 1994, pp. 194-195) ff. 1r-13v Pinax f. 1r Πίναξ τοῦ παρόντος νομοκάνονος f. 1r Περὶ παρενορίας χειροτονῶν α΄ f. 13v Ἐαν τίς ἀπόλέση τὴν παναγίαν. ff. 14r-21r f. 14r Νομοκάνονον συνοδικόν f. 14r Ὁ δεχόμενος τοὺς λογισμοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὁφείλει f. 21r ἵνα μὴδὲν σφάλη καὶ χάλαση τους. See A.S. Pavlov, Nomokanon pri Bolshom Trebnikie (Moscow 1897),, pp. 83-108 ff. 21v-107v f. 21v Συνοδικοὶ κανόνες, καὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων καὶ τοῦ μεγάλου Βασιλείου f. 21v Ὁ χειροτονῶν παρενορίας f. 107v ὁ πνευματικὸς πατὴρ τὴν εὐχὴν συγχωρήσεως, καὶ ἔναι συγχωρησμένος. See A.S. Pavlov, Nomokanon pri Bolshom Trebnikie (Moscow 1897),, pp. 116-434 ff. 108v-110v l. 12 On family connexion f. 108r Περὶ συγγενείας f. 108r Ἡ συγγένεια μερίζεται εἰς πέντε τάξεις f. 110v καὶ εἰς τοὺς κατιόντας ἐξ αὐτῶν εἰς δὲ τὰ ἄλλα δὲν ἐμποδίζει. ff. 110v l. 13-119v Manuel Xanthinus chartophylax De Consanguinitate et Affinitate f. 110v Μανουὴλ τοῦ Ξανθινοῦ καὶ μεγάλου καρτοφύλακος τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας περὶ συγγενείας περιγραφή f. 111r Οὐ δύναταί τις λαβεῖν γυναῖκα τ' ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ f. 119v Ἰωάννης Παῦλος Ἄννα ἀδελφὴ Εἰρήνη βαθμὸς ε΄. f. 119v Τέλος τῶν σχεδῶν συγγενειῶν ff. 1r-121v Western paper, folded in octavo. Watermarks: Crescent (maybe two) in the upper edge of the leaf, near the gutter not clearly visible. Codex iii + 121 + iii , 157 95-105 Modern pencil foliation, in Arabic numerals, in the top right hand corner, recto: [i]-[iii] + 1-121 + [iv]-[vi]

The manuscript has been bound very tightly and there is no numbering of the quires, therefore it is not possible to establish its quire structure.

Catchwords by the scribe in the lower margin verso of each leaf, near the gutter, written horizontally. There are tears on the edges of some leaves, particularly at the beginning and at the end of the mauscript (see ff. 1-3 and 120-121; ff. 120-121 have been restored). The leaves are yellowed throughout the volume and there are often stains (see, for example, ff. 15v-16v, 71r-71v). Irregular layout, one single column, 17 to 20 lines 120 80

ff. 1r-119v Hand A: the texts have been written by a single hand in an informal minuscule script, slightly slanting to the right, irregular in structure and ductus (speed of writing).

The text is written in light brown ink; titles and initials in red.

ff. 120r-121v Hand B: a later hand wrote annotations in the last leaves of the manuscript and passim in the margins, in a cursive minuscule. The ink is black.

On f. 1r there is a rectangular headpiece traced in brown ink, with interlace patterns, and particulars coloured in red; the ink has partially faded. On ff. 14r and 21v there are two similar rectangular headpieces in brown ink, smaller than the one on f. 1r, filled with an interlace decoration, with particulars coloured in red. Thick initials in red ink, sometimes simply decorated with scrollworks (see, for example, f. 21v).

Passim there are in the margins annotations by another hand (see ff. 29r, 31v).

On ff. 120r-121v there are scribbled notes in black ink by another later hand, including the name αιρηνη του Καλογερακη Ιωάνι Κωνσταντήετη , written also by another hand.

On the left pastedown and on ff. [i] recto-[ii] recto there are annotations in pencil by later librarians concerning the acquisition of the manuscript and indicating a previous shelfmark.

Modern full leather binding over millboards. The title Greek MS. is tooled in gold on the spine.

165 115 37

The manuscript was copied probably in the 17th century. Some clues about the provenance of the manuscript could come from an annotation by a hand different than the main scribe on the upper margin of f. 1r. The ink has faded, one word has been intentionally deleted, and parts of the note are lost due to the leaf's damage, but possibly a reference to a monastery can be read: ἐκ τοῦ βίβλ ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους ἐκ τῆς μονῆς τοῦ ἁγίου Γε . The manuscript came into possession of William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950) Rouse, W.H.D. (William Henry Denham), 1863-1950 certainly before 1899, when he published an article in which he cites it ( Rouse 1899; he acquired it in Cos. The codex was presented to Christ's College by W.H.D. Rouse, Honorary Fellow of Christ's, in 1940 (see label glued on f. [i] recto). Description (2020) partly draws on P. Easterling, 'Greek manuscripts in Cambridge: recent acquisitions by College Libraries, the Fitzwilliam Museum and private collectors', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 4.3 (1966), 179-191 (p. 185).

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Superstition in the Canons W.R. Paton Folklore 5 3 275-278 1894 Folklore from the Southern Sporades W.H.D. Rouse Folklore 10 2 150-186 1899 Greek manuscripts in Cambridge: recent acquisitions by college libraries, the Fitzwilliam Museum and private collectors. Patricia E. Easterling Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 4 179-191 1966 Library of Congress Subject Headings Nomocanon Erika Elia