Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Bodleian Library

Collection

Holkham

Present shelfmark

Holkham gr. 81

Former shelfmark

Total pages

320 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

folios 1r-18r

Title on manuscript

Παχωμίου περὶ τῆς τῶν ὀρθοδόξων καὶ τῶν σαρρακηνῶν πίστεως πρὸς τινα

Title position

centered

Attributed Title

Language

Greek

Script

Greek

Incipit

Ὅταν μὲν ἀναλογίσωμαι τοὺς παλαιοὺς ἐκείνους θείους ἄνδρας

Incipit position

fol. 1r

Explicit

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

Explicit position

fol. 18r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1550

Released place

Other dates

1698

Other places

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

D. Skrekas, "MS. Holkham Gr. 81", https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_6209

Descriptive card

The polemical text by Rousanos, as rendered in this MS, is a XVIth century copy of MS Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Gr. II 103 (coll. 1312), fols 98r-114r (XVIth century autograph by Rousanos himself), copied by the Greek intellectual Maximos Margounios. On fol. 1r (at the top) there is an inscription by B. de Montfaucon that speaks about a certain priest Ioannis as the owner of the MS. The manuscript belonged to the library of the Earl of Leicester, while its binding has encrusted the Coke's family ostrich crest in gild. Most probably it was rebound sometime during the XIXth century by John Jones (1771-1831), a book-binder from Liverpool, who worked for Holkham between 1816 and 1823.

Entry author

Octavian Negoita