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

Vat.gr.21

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.gr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.gr.21
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
sec. XV
Dated Mss:
1423
Beginning date:
1401
Ending date:
1500
Support:
membr.
Height:
180
Width:
125
Extent:
III, 118
Exhibit Tags:
FlyleavesEarly minuscule

Description

Writing - Note:
Cf. f. 112v: τελειωθὲν, κ(α)τ(ὰ) τ(ὴν) ιˊ τοῦ ἰουν(ίου) μηνὸς. (ἰνδ.), αˊ. ἔτους ˏϛϡλαˊ. †
Palimpsest:
Ff. 1-114, 117-118
Other name:
Baiophoros, Georgios, f. 1402-1435 [scribe]
Nicolaus PP. V, 1399-1455 [owner]
Garatone, Cristoforo, vesc. di Corone, m. 1448 [owner]
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.

Administrative information

Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, pp. XIX, 20-21. G. Mercati, Scritti d'Isidoro il cardinale ruteno, Roma, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1926 (Studi e testi, 46), p. 111. P. Canart, Les Palimpsestes, p. 49

Curatorial narrative

Vat. gr. 21 contains the Erotemata, a grammatical work in the form of questions and answers, written by the Byzantine Grammarian, Manuel Moschopoulos. This text was copied on folios recycled from four different manuscripts. George Baiophoros, the scribe who completed the actual manuscript in 1423 (f. 112v) and wrote or annotated several other Vatican manuscripts (Vat. gr. 19, Vat. gr. 157 and Urb. gr. 154), used many recycled folios from four earlier codices as protective flyleaves in the front (ff. III) and recycled folios from two earlier manuscripts at the back – one of them is a palimpsest – as writing surface in Constantinople. The manuscript arrived to the Vatican Library from Cristoforo Garatone (1398-1448) probably in the fifteenth-century. The list of contents in the front (ff. I-II) was added in the seventeenth century.

Bibliography; Pinakes.

Parts of this manuscript

Ir-IIv

Pinax Allatianus

Date:
sec. XVII
Locus:
Ir-IIv
Supplied title:
Pinax Allatianus
General note:
Language:
Greco
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. 21. P. Canart, Les Vaticani graeci 1487-1962. Notes et documents pour l’histoire d’un fonds de manuscrits de la Bibliothéque Vaticane, Città del Vaticano 1979 (Studi e testi, 284), pp. 104-105 e n. 115

115-116

Passio s. Acindyni et sociorum (fragmenta)

Date:
sec. XII
Locus:
115-116
Supplied title:
Passio s. Acindyni et sociorum (fragmenta)
General note:
Cf. BHG 22
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. XIX

IIIv

De Deo (fragmentum)

Locus:
IIIv
Supplied title:
De Deo (fragmentum)
Incipit:
† ληπτὸν τὸ θεῖον
Explicit:
λειτουργίαν· ὧ πάντα δοῦλα λ[...
General note:
Language:
Greco
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. 21; Vassis, Initia, p. 433

104v + 101r, 104r + 101v, 114v + 107r, 114r + 107v, 109r + 112v, 109v + 112r, 110r + 111v, 110v +111r <inf. 4>

Simplicius Atheniensis, In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium (fragmenta)

Date:
sec. XIII-XIV
Beginning date:
1276
Ending date:
1325
Locus:
104v + 101r, 104r + 101v, 114v + 107r, 114r + 107v, 109r + 112v, 109v + 112r, 110r + 111v, 110v +111r <inf. 4>
Author:
Simplicius Atheniensis, sec. VI [internal]
Supplied title:
In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium (fragmenta)
General note:
Cf. CAG VIII, pp. 274, l. 2 [κα)τηγορεῖται] - 275, l. 6 [ποιοῦσιν] per il testo a ff. 114r + 107v; Urb. gr. 154, ff. 121-122, 125-126.
Language:
Greco
Alphabet:
Greco.

103v + 102r, 103r + 102v, 108r + 113v, 108v + 113r <inf. 3>

Patrum vitae

Date:
sec. XI
Beginning date:
1001
Ending date:
1200
Locus:
103v + 102r, 103r + 102v, 108r + 113v, 108v + 113r <inf. 3>
Supplied title:
Patrum vitae
General note:
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. 21. P. Canart, Les Palimpsestes, p. 49

1r-112v

Manuel Moschopulus, Erotemata

Locus:
1r-112v
Author:
Manuel Moschopulus, c. 1262-1316 [internal]
Supplied title:
Erotemata
General note:
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. 20

1r-99v, 106r-v <inf. 1>

Menologium

Date:
sec. X
Beginning date:
901
Ending date:
1000
Locus:
1r-99v, 106r-v <inf. 1>
Uniform title:
Menologium
General note:
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. 21. P. Canart, Les Palimpsestes, p. 49

100r-v + 105r-v <inf. 2>

Triodii fragmentum

Date:
sec. XI
Beginning date:
1001
Ending date:
1100
Locus:
100r-v + 105r-v <inf. 2>
Supplied title:
Triodii fragmentum
General note:
Cf. Τριῴδιον κατανυκτικόν, ἐν Ῥώμῃ, [ed. Propaganda Fide], 1879, p. 656.
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. 21. P. Canart, Les Palimpsestes, p. 49

117r-118v <inf. 5>

Paucissima vestigia aegre discernuntur

Locus:
117r-118v <inf. 5>
Supplied title:
Paucissima vestigia aegre discernuntur
General note:
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
P. Canart, Les Palimpsestes, p. 49

117r-v

Quaestiones et responsiones

Date:
sec. XII
Locus:
117r-v
Supplied title:
Quaestiones et responsiones
General note:
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. XIX

118r-v

De sanctis PP. fragmenta

Date:
sec. XII
Locus:
118r-v
Supplied title:
De sanctis PP. fragmenta
General note:
Language:
Greco.
Alphabet:
Greco.
Source of information:
I. Mercati – P. Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Cat. Vat. gr. 1-329, p. XIX