Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

Collection

Principal collection

Present shelfmark

Gr. II 103 (coll. 1312)

Former shelfmark

Olim Nanianus CXXV

Total pages

284 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

folios 98r-114r

Title on manuscript

Περὶ τῆς τῶν ὀρθοδόξων καὶ τῶν σαρρακηνῶν πίστεως πρὸς τινα Λήσβιος

Title position

Attributed Title

About the Faith of the Orthodox and of the Sarracens

Language

Greek

Script

Greek

Incipit

Ὅταν μὲν ἀναλογίσωμαι τοὺς παλαιοὺς ἐκείνους θείους ἄνδρας

Incipit position

fol 98r

Explicit

ὁ σὺν Πατρὶ καὶ Πνεύματι δοξαζόμενος καὶ μένων εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ἀμήν.

Explicit position

fol 114r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1500

Released place

Mount Athos

Other dates

Other places

Zakynthos, Venice

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Elpidio Mioni, Codices graeci manuscripti, Vol. 1/1 (Venice, 1981), pp. 308-312

Descriptive card

This is an autograph codex by Rousanos himself in which his polemical treatise is preserved. The entire codex features Rousanos' theological writings. It belonged to the St George Monastery of Zakynthos and later on it found its way into the Nanianus collection of the Marciana Library of Venice. Rousanos' polemical text as rendered in this codex served as a model for MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Holkham Gr. 81, fols 1r-18r (XVIth century), which was copied by the Greek intellectual Maximos Margounios.

Entry author

Octavian Negoita