Epitomē tōn theiōn kai hierōn kanonōn. (Robbins Ms. 67)

[Epitome canonum].

[Greece] ; [Istanbul?], [between 1350 and 1799]

44 leaves : paper ; 285 x 210 (200 x 125) mm bound to 295 x 215 mm
1 microfilm reel : negative (MN 02-55) and positive (Robbins MS 67)

Manuscript contains the Epitome canonum (a summary of canon law) by Kōnstantinos Harmenopoulos and several other texts on church doctrine and jurisdiction, including works on the Harmenopoulos on Orthodox faith and the opinions of the heretics; an unidentifieid decree issued by Theodosius and Vanentinian; two excerpts in two different hands regarding ecclesiastical appointments; an exceprt from Matthew Blastares's Syntagma canonum; Andronikos II Palaiologus's Chrysobull; a summary of the Donation of Constantine and a refutation of the donation from the History of Meletius of Athens (Meletius of Janina)?. This manuscript is further described, most of the short unknown texts and notes transcribed, and the characteristics and composition of the manuscript discussed, in a short paper by Jon Frey in collaboration with Maria Mavroudi and Luminita Florea, available in the manuscript file at the Robbins Collection.

Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper (multiple watermarks, including one Anchor, similar to Heawood 2, and two unidentified watermarks), fol. iii + 38 + iii; 1¹ 2¹ 3⁴ 4-5⁸ 6⁸ (+9, fol. 25) 7² (+3, fol. 28) 8² 9⁴ (-2, which is affixed to 9₁, -4). Multiple foliation, including arabic numerals 132-159 and Greek letters on [7-34]; leaves [7-38] foliated 1-32 in pencil by a modern hand.
Script: Written in 7 or 9 different hands. According to Jon Frey there are 9 hands; Jesse Torgerson counts 7, identifying Texts 6 and 7 and the entirety of the front and back matter (with the exception of the text at the top of f. ivr) as the 18th-century hand of Nikolaos Karatzas, whose signature appears on the notepaper-sized insert, f. vv. Texts 1-5 are late medieval hands of the 14th century and later; Texts 6-8 are copies and transcriptions in 18th century hands.
Origin: Manuscripts likely written in Greece and/or Istanbul around the mid-14th century to the 17th century, and were later compiled in Istanbul in the 18th century. Manuscript shows extensive repairs. Based on a note bound into the manuscript in the late 18th century, this codex was compiled by Nikolaos Karatzas, a known Greek bibliophile, intellectual, and political figure, and sent to an unidentified Theodora. The logic of compilation centers on the intellectual activity of 14th century Thessalonike. Nikolaos Karatzas, who compiled the manuscript, cites (f. [4]r) "the Greek library of Fabricius, vol. 10 [or 1?], book 5, chapter 42, page 276" as saying that the 14th-century portion was prepared by Kōnstantinos Harmenopoulos during the reign of Anna Palaiologina and her son John Palaiologos "in the year from the creation of the world 6853 [AD 1345] ..."
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 67.

In Greek.

Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 7223

The manuscript was once in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (his no. 7223; label on spine) as well as in that of Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (library stamp on fly-leaf)

Bound in mottled paper over pasteboard.

Migne, J.-P. (Jacques-Paul), Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca, vol 150, columns 45-168

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. USE POSITIVE MICROFILM COPY ONLY: Use of original only by permission. Inquiries concerning this item should be directed, in writing, to the reference librarian for The Robbins Collection.

Turkey -- Istanbul.
Greece.

Robbins MS 67

Greek, ancient (to 1453)

Blastares, Matthew, active 14th century. Syntagma canonum. Selections. (Robbins Ms. 67)
Andronicus II Palaeologus, Emperor of the East, 1260-1332. Chrysobull. (Robbins Ms. 67)