Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Collection

Principal collection

Present shelfmark

Cod. Gr. 290

Former shelfmark

Gr. E 64 Sup.

Total pages

264 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fols 222r-237r

Title on manuscript

Περὶ τῆς τῶν ὀρθοδόξων καὶ τῶν σαρρακηνῶν πίστεως

Title position

Centered

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 222r

Explicit

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

Explicit position

fol 237r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1500

Released place

Mount Athos

Other dates

Other places

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

Emidio Martini and Dominic Bassi (ed.), Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae, Vol. 1 (Milan, 1906), pp. 319-325 [republished Hildesheim and New York, 1978]

Descriptive card

This is an autograph codex by Rousanos, featuring various theological writings by Byzantine and Greek theologians and writers. As rendered in this codex, Rousanos' polemical treatise served as a model for MS Oxford, Lincoln College, Gr. 29, fols 1r-29r (XVIth century).

Entry author

Octavian Negoita