Vatican Palimpsests Digital Recovery of Erased Identities [by A. Németh]

Vat.gr.1876

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.gr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.gr.1876
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
sec. XII-XIII
Beginning date:
1176
Ending date:
1225
Country:
Italia
Region:
Italia meridionale
Support:
membr.
Height:
170
Width:
140
Extent:
ff. 103 (+ 42a)
Exhibit Tags:
MajusculeHagiography

Description

Palimpsest:
ff. 1-103
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.

Administrative information

Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, pp. 434-437. P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, Introductio - Addenda - Indices, p. LI. Canart, Les palimpsestes en écriture majuscule, p. 78

Curatorial narrative

The current manuscript is the March volume of the twelve-volume set of a Menaeum dating from the 12th/13th century. The complete set of the Menaeum consisted of twelve volumes. This set played an important role in the Orthodox Liturgy because it contained the propers, i.e. those sections of the liturgy which vary according to the date and are independent from the Easter cycles. The manuscript recycled fragments from four different codices, from another Maeneum (10th c.), a pre-Metaphrastic collection of Saints' Lives (7th/8th c., in Sloping Ogival Majuscule), a hagiographic manuscript from the late tenth century and a liturgical manuscript from the ninth century.

Bibliography; Pinakes.

Parts of this manuscript

43r + 44v, 43v + 44r, 42v + 46r, 42r + 46v, 25r + 32v, 25v + 32r, 26r + 31v, 26v + 31r, 41v + 47r, 41r + 47v, 42ar + 45v, 42av + 45r <inf. 2>

Agathangelus Armeniacus, Vita s. Gregorii Illuminatoris

Date:
sec. VII-VIII
Overview:
ff. 9-55, 72-79, 66-69 <inf. 2>: Collectio hagiographica haud menologica.
Locus:
43r + 44v, 43v + 44r, 42v + 46r, 42r + 46v, 25r + 32v, 25v + 32r, 26r + 31v, 26v + 31r, 41v + 47r, 41r + 47v, 42ar + 45v, 42av + 45r <inf. 2>
Author:
Agathangelus Armeniacus, sec. V-VI [internal]
Supplied title:
Vita s. Gregorii Illuminatoris
General note:
Cf. BHG Nov. Auct. 712.
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, p. 436. P. Canart, Les Palimpsestes en écriture majuscule, p. 78

1r-103v

Menaeum mensis martii (initium et fine mut.)

Locus:
1r-103v
Supplied title:
Menaeum mensis martii (initium et fine mut.)
Incipit:
Πυρὶ τῶ θείω [od. γˊ, trop. 1]
Explicit:
Λαμπρυνόμενος Γαβριὴλ ἀληθέστατα [od. δˊ, trop. 3]
General note:
Inc. mut. die mart. 7 (ss. hieromartyres episcopi in Chersoneso) in canone mat. Des. mut. die 25 (Annuntiatio Deiparae) in canone mat.
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, pp. 434-435. P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, Introductio - Addenda - Indices, p. LI

1r-8v <inf. 1>

Codex liturgicus (fragmentum menaei)

Date:
sec. X ex
Beginning date:
976
Ending date:
1000
Locus:
1r-8v <inf. 1>
Supplied title:
Codex liturgicus (fragmentum menaei)
General note:
Scriptura plerumque fere omnino evanuit
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, p. 435

49v + 54r, 49r + 54v, 34r + 39v, 34v + 39r, 35r + 38v, 35v + 38r, 36r + 37v, 36v + 37r, 33r + 40v, 33v + 40r <inf. 2>

Miracula s. Demetrii (capp. 3-4)

Date:
sec. VII-VIII
Overview:
ff. 9-55, 72-79, 66-69 <inf. 2>: Collectio hagiographica haud menologica.
Locus:
49v + 54r, 49r + 54v, 34r + 39v, 34v + 39r, 35r + 38v, 35v + 38r, 36r + 37v, 36v + 37r, 33r + 40v, 33v + 40r <inf. 2>
Supplied title:
Miracula s. Demetrii (capp. 3-4)
General note:
Cf. BHG 502-503.
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, p. 436. P. Canart, Les Palimpsestes en écriture majuscule, p. 78

9r + 16v, 9v +16r, 10r + 15v <inf. 2>

Miracula s. Theclae

Date:
sec. VII-VIII
Overview:
ff. 9-55, 72-79, 66-69 <inf. 2>: Collectio hagiographica haud menologica.
Locus:
9r + 16v, 9v +16r, 10r + 15v <inf. 2>
Supplied title:
Miracula s. Theclae
General note:
Cf. BHG 1718n.
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, p. 436. P. Canart, Les palimpsestes en écriture majuscule, p. 78

10v + 15r <inf. 2>

Passio s. Tryphonis (titulus et initium)

Date:
sec. VII-VIII
Overview:
ff. 9-55, 72-79, 66-69 <inf. 2>: Collectio hagiographica haud menologica.
Locus:
10v + 15r <inf. 2>
Supplied title:
Passio s. Tryphonis (titulus et initium)
General note:
Cf. BHG 1856.
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, p. 436. P. Canart, Les palimpsestes en écriture majuscule, p. 78

20v + 21r, 20r + 21v, 22r + 19v, 22v + 19r, 11v + 14r, 11r + 14v, 13r + 12v, 13v + 12r <inf. 2>

Laudatio praemetaphrastica s. Euphemiae (fragmenta tria)

Date:
sec. VII-VIII
Overview:
ff. 9-55, 72-79, 66-69 <inf. 2>: Collectio hagiographica haud menologica.
Locus:
20v + 21r, 20r + 21v, 22r + 19v, 22v + 19r, 11v + 14r, 11r + 14v, 13r + 12v, 13v + 12r <inf. 2>
Supplied title:
Laudatio praemetaphrastica s. Euphemiae (fragmenta tria)
General note:
Cf. BHG Nov. Auct. 623v.
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, p. 436. P. Canart, Les palimpsestes en écriture majuscule, p. 78

56r-63v, 64r-65v, 70r-71v, 80r-87v <inf. 3>

Codex hagiographicus

Date:
sec. X ex
Beginning date:
976
Ending date:
1000
Locus:
56r-63v, 64r-65v, 70r-71v, 80r-87v <inf. 3>
Supplied title:
Codex hagiographicus
General note:
Paucissima vestigia discerni possunt.
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, pp. 436-437

88r-103v <inf. 4>

Codex liturgicus (fortasse fragmentum menaei)

Date:
sec. IX o IX-X
Locus:
88r-103v <inf. 4>
Supplied title:
Codex liturgicus (fortasse fragmentum menaei)
General note:
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Cat. Vat. gr. 1745-1962, p. 437. P. Canart, Les palimpsestes en écriture majuscule, p. 78