MS. D'Orville 113

Summary Catalogue no.: 16991

1. (fol. 1)

John of Damascus, Carmen in Theophaniam

Rubric: ... 'Ιωάνναν ... τού Δαμασκηνού Κάνων είς τά άγια θεοφάνια...

1 (fol. 1). ', partly acrostic, and partly in Latin and with Latin interlinear glosses.

Language(s): Greek and Latin

2. (fol. 8)

John of Damascus, Carmen

Rubric: Τού αύτού έτερος Κάνων όμοιος είς τά άγια φώτα

Language(s): Greek

3. (fol. 15)

John of Damascus, Carmen in Pentecosten

Rubric: 'Ετερος Κάνων όμοιος είς τήν άγίαν Πεντηκοστήν...

Language(s): Greek

4. (fol. 22v)

John of Damascus, Expositio fidei

Rubric: ... 'Ιωάννου ... τού Δαμασκηνόν 'Εκδοσις άκριβής περί τής όρθοδόξου πίστεως

In 101 chapters, and one περί θείων όνομάτων added.

Language(s): Greek

5. (fol. 156)

Constantine I, Edictum De Pontifice Romano

Rubric: θέσπισμα τού μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνον περί τού Πάπα

Language(s): Greek

6. (fol. 157)

Epictetus, Enchiridion

Rubric: 'Εγχειρίδιου 'Επίκτήτου

Language(s): Greek

7. (fol. 168v)

Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia

Rubric: ... Διονυσίου περί τής ούρανίου ίεραρχίας κεφάλαιου ά', κ.τ.λ.

Preceded by some short pieces.

Language(s): Greek

8. (fol. 207)

Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite, De ecclesiastica hierarchia

Rubric: Διονυσίου Άρεοπαγίτου ... περί τής έκκλησιαστικής ίεραρχίας

Language(s): Greek

9. (fol. 245v)

Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite, De mystica theologia

Rubric: Διονυσίου 'Αρεοπαγίτου ... περί μυστικής θεολογίας

Language(s): Greek

10. (fol. 249)

Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite, Epistulae

Rubric: Τού αύτόν 'Επιστολαί διάφοροι

Language(s): Greek

11. (fol. 265)

Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite, De diuinis nominibus

Rubric: Περί τών θείων όνομάτων

Different from the chapter in art. 4.

Language(s): Greek

12. (fol. 317)

Rubric: Όρας τής οίκουμενικής Συνόδου, τής έν Φλωρεντία γενομένης

Council of Florence, 1439.

Language(s): Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: i + 336 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 8.25 × 6.125 in.

History

Origin: c. 1500

Provenance and Acquisition

Breda, Illustre College

The library of the House of Orange-Nassau: recorded in the 1686 catalogue and included in the 1749 auction at The Hague (see A. D. Renting, A. S. Korteweg, et al., The seventeenth-century Orange-Nassau library: the catalogue compiled by Anthonie Smets in 1686, the 1749 auction catalogue, and other contemporary sources (Utrecht, 1993), p. 192 no. 568); bought by:

Pieter de Hondt (1696–1764), printer, publisher, and bookseller of The Hague.

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804