Details

Other Title:

Logos eis Nikolaon Maurokordaton.
Logos epitaphios.

Subjects:

Maurokordatos, Nikolaos, 1680-1730.
Funeral orations.
Funeral sermons.
Greek literature, Modern -- 1453-1800.
Greek literature, Modern.
Greek prose literature, Modern -- 1453-1800.
Greek prose literature, Modern.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Greek -- 18th century.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Greek.

Summary:

Funeral oration on the hospodar Nicholas Mavrocordatos [Nikolaus Maurokordatos].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from spine labels.
Heading begins: Logos epitaphios ... (f. 1r).
Incipit: Teōs men ēpistoun tōi eipēkoti anaudon menein ton hypo megistōn symphorōn katechomenon. ... (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, vii (modern paper) + 8 + xi (modern paper); [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a single hand.
Binding: 19th-century gilt calf.
Origin: Written after the death of Nikolaos Maurokordatos in 1730.
Typescript transcription of the manuscript, together with a note by Peter Topping dated May 1961, is on file in the library, along with an earlier handwritten version.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1952.

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. 1 (Ms. Greek 2).

Publications about:

Published in: Stamatiadēs, Epameinōndas. Viographiai tōn Hellēnōn megalōn diermēneōn (Athens, 1865), pp. 105-115. This work was reprinted in 1973 by P. Pournara of Thessalonikē.

Cited as:

Partheniou logos eis Nikolaon Maurokordaton (Ms. Codex 138). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155962652