Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Vaticanus graecus 839

Former shelfmark

Total pages

312 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fols 176r-312r

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 176r

Explicit

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

Explicit position

folio 312r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1400

Released place

Other dates

900

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), 144.

Descriptive card

This Greek manuscript includes Kantakouzenos' anti-Islamic works, which are preceded by a 10th century copy of the Apostolic Constitutions.

Entry author

Octavian Negoita