MS. Holkham Gr. 52

With related texts: i) fols 1r-3r: Iohannis ab. Rhaiteni et Ioannis Climaci epistulae mutuae, CPG 7850, BHG 883d-883db, PG 88, 624–628; fol. 3v: sketch with the divine ladder containing thirty steps with names and numbers and a book epigram written on the left side, tit. Ἀναβαίνετε πατέρες ἀναβαίνετε. inc. Τὴν Ἰακὼβ κλιμακα καινίζεις π(άτ)ερ … des. ἐφ´οἷς ἄνω φθάνουσιν οἱ καλ(ῶς) ἐκβιοῦντες; ii) fols 4r: Prologus, CPG 7851, PG 88, 628–629; fol. 4v: Table of Contents of the entire volume, including addition of the last folia in hands of J. Morezenos; fols 5r-25v, 26v, 26r-135r: iii) Scala paradisi, CPG 7852, PG 88, 632–1162, but fol. 134v gives an additional small text on love –cf. the ending of PG 88, 1160D: μείζων δὲ πἀντων ἡ ἀγάπη– inc. νυνὶ δὲ μένει τὰ τρία ταῦτα, πίστη ἐλπὶς ἀγάπη. Μεῖζον δὲ πἀντων ἠ ἀγάπη· ἀνιστὰ μἐν … des. μετὰ ἀρχόντων ἀγγέλων λαοῦ κ(υρίο)υ; and titles of the 30 chapters of the Divine Ladder, in reverse order, and everything written on fol. 134v is in red ink; fol. 135r: PG 88, 1160D-1161A but with differences, and additions at the end after καὶ ἔσται εἰς ἀορίστους αἰῶνας.: des. φῶς ἀνέσπερον καὶ ἄδυτον· ἐν ῶ οἱ τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ φίλοι ἀεὶ φωτίζοντ(αι); iv) fols 135r-145r: Liber ad pastorem, CPG 7853, PG 88, 1165–1209.

CPG 8057, BHG 1979, ed. P.B. Kotter, Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos, vol. 5, Patristische Texte und Studien 29, Berlin - New York, 1988, pp. 436–459.

des. mut. τάχα δὲ καὶ ἐπειδὴ οὗτοι συμπαρῆναι [τούτῳ … See A. Ehrhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der Hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der Griechischen Kirche, I-III. Leipzig-Berlin 1937–1952, vol. 3, pp. 633. Number of Homily and title are given as in PG. Ed. G. Rossi Taibbi, Filagato da Cerami. Omelie per i Vangeli domenicali e le feste di tutto l’anno, Palermo, 1969, I, pp. 206–211.16; ed. Archim. Gr. Palamas, Tοῦ σοφωτάτου καὶ ῥητορικωτάτου Θεοφάνους τοῦ ἐπίκλην Κεραμέως, Ἀρχιεπισκόπου Ταυρομενίου τῆς Σικελίας, Ὁμιλίαι εἰς Εὐαγγέλια Κυριακὰ καὶ ἑορτὰς τοῦ ὅλου ἐνιαυτοῦ, Jerusalem, 1860, pp. 251–254.9, PG 132, 1020–1028C, BHG 1995.