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URI: https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/291
Description based on Wright DLXXXIV (2:467) Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
Date: 6th century
Estrangela script ܀ Parchment Codex, 112 leaves.
Wright's Subject Classification: Individual Authors
This manuscript contains: John Chrysostom. The Commentary of John Chrysostom on the Gospel of S. Matthew, homm. homilies i.- xx. In total, including sub-sections, this manuscript contains 1 item.

Physical Description

Vellum, about 10 3/4 in. by 8, consisting of 112 leaves, many of which are much stained and torn, especially foll. 1—12, 45, 59, 69, 82, 83, 87, 88, 91, 92, 94—96, 98—101, 104 and 112. The quires were at least 18 in number (fol. 105, ܝܚ). They are signed with both letters and arithmetical figures (e.g. fol. 47, ܛ and %). Leaves are wanting at the begin¬ning, as well as after foll. 1, 11, 14, 70, 73, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97 and 103. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 28 to 36 lines.

Hand 1 (sole, Estrangela script): This volume is written in a good, regular Estrangělā of the vith cent.

Manuscript Contents

Note: Item numbering updated in digital edition.
Item 1 (Fol. 1a): John Chrysostom. The Commentary of John Chrysostom on the Gospel of S. Matthew, homm. homilies i.- xx. [defective]
Note:

The text now commences, on fol.1a, with the passage corresponding to the Greek Τίνος οὖν ἔνεκεν ἐμνήστθη; 'Ηνίκα ἔμελλεν αὐτοὺς τίκτειν ἡ θάμαρ, τῶν ὠδίνων παραγενομένων, ἐξήνεγκε πρῶτον ὁ Ζαρὰ τὴν χεῖρα• κ.τ.λ.;Opera, t. vii., p. 42, hom. iii. Homm. [Homilies] vii. -xii. and xx. are complete, with the exception of the two torn leaves, foll.45 and 59. The rest are all more or less imperfect, the principal lacunae being:

Opera, t. vii.
p. 43 l. 12-p. 62, l. 22 p. 86, l. 27-p. 89 l. 20 p. 96, last line-p. 108, l. 9
p. 203 l. 26-p. 207, l. 21 p. 210, last line-p. 212, l. 12 p. 230, l. 40-p. 232, l. 12
p. 235, l. 19-p. 236, l. 27 p. 238,l. 3-p. 239 l. 30 p. 240, penult line-p. 243, l. 40
p. 245, l. 19-p. 246, l. 40 p. 249, l. 34-p 264, l. 25, with the exception of two small fragments from pp. 252-3 p. 265, l. 38-p. 277, l. 21
p. 287, l. 32-p. 291, l.11

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