Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Vaticanus graecus 348

Former shelfmark

Total pages

297 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fol 99v-293r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Greek

Script

Greek

Incipit

Τὸ παρὸν πόνημα ἐξετέθη παρὰ τοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου καὶ φιλοχρίστου βασιλέως ἡμῶν

Incipit position

fol 99v

Explicit

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

Explicit position

fol 293r

Preservation state

Released date

1400

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not_applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

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), 143.

Descriptive card

This Greek fifteenth-century manuscript contains the Byzantine version of the anti-Islamical works by Kantakouzenos.At folios 294r-297v the manuscript repeats the Kantakouzenos' introduction (hypothesis) to his anti-Islamic works.

Entry author

Octavian Negoita