Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Orthodox Eastern Church -- Doctrines.
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.
Spirituality -- Eastern.
God -- Knowableness -- Sermons.
Eunomianism -- Sermons.
Jews -- Early works to 1800.
Judaism -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Judaism -- Controversial literature.
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- Early works to 1800.
Asceticism -- Early works to 1800.
Asceticism.
Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800.
Monastic and religious life.
Christianity and other religions.
Judaism.
Relations.
Christianity.
Jews.
Eunomianism.
God -- Knowableness.
Spirituality.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of sermons and other works of St. John Chrysostom, plus a copy of a letter from St. Basil to St. Gregory (f. 1r-3v).

Contents:

1. f.1r-3v: Bassilii ep[isto]la Gregorum theologum.
2. f.4r-56v: Sermo Sancti Iohanis Chrisostomi contra Iudeos feliciter [6 sermons].
3. f.57r-89r: Adverssus Anomoeos quod Dominus incomprehenssibilis sit [5 sermons].
4. f.89v-139v: Ad Stagirium Arrepticium monacum.
5. f.139v-149v: Paradoxa Ioannis Chrisostomi : neminem ledi nisi a se ipso.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, iii (19th-century paper) + 150 + ii (19th-century paper); [1-150] modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 39 long lines; ruled in ink and lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by 2 different hands (f. 1r-139v, 139v-149v).
Decoration: Alternating red and blue used for initials and paragraph markers.
Binding: 19th-century leather with gold stamped coat of arms with the motto "Esse quam videri" on upper and lower covers.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Description of contents of volume in Latin bound in front.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Thomas Thorpe in 1836 (no. 58) to Sir Thomas Phillipps; Phillipps ms. 9471.
Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1955.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 83).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 712.

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Contains:

John Chrysostom, Saint, -407. Peri akatalēptou. Latin.
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, addressee.
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Sermo contra iudeos.
Neminem ledi nisi a se ipso.

OCLC:

155985468

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