Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Zentralbibliothek

Collection

Principal collection

Present shelfmark

Tigurinus C 27

Former shelfmark

Total pages

390 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fols 5r-211r

Title on manuscript

[Ἀπολογίαι]

Title position

centered

Attributed Title

Language

Greek

Script

Greek

Incipit

Τὸ παρὸν πόνημα ἐξετέθη παρὰ τοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου καὶ φιλοχρίστου βασιλέως ἡμῶν

Incipit position

fol 5r

Explicit

τῆς ὑπερευλογημένης δεσποίνης ἡμῶν θεοτόκου καὶ ἀειπαρθένου Μαρίας καὶ πάντων τῶν ἀγίων. Ἀμήν.

Explicit position

fol 211r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1374

Released place

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

Klaus-Peter Todt, Johannes VI. Kantakuzenos und der Islam: Politische Realität und theologische Polemik im palaiologenzeitlichen Byzanz (Würzburg / Echter: Altenberge / Oros Verlag, 1991), 136.

Descriptive card

This Greek manuscript preserves the Byzantine version of John VI Kantakouzenos' anti-Islamic works.

Entry author

Octavian Negoita