Monacensis graecus 202 – Mn

Previous descriptions: Hajdú (2012, 139–42).

Reproductions: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Family: d²

Siglum: Mn

Shelfmark: Monacensis graecus 202

Date: Written around the year 1465

Format: paper, 280×220 mm, I+250 ff.

Material: good state of conservation, no loss of text.

Binding: middle of 16th century (see Hajdú 2012, 141).

Watermarks: the watermarks are thoroughly analysed in Hajdú (2012, 141); those of the first codicological unit date between 1426 and 1455; those of the second codicological unit, where Pollux is, to 1464–1465.

Scribes: A: ff. 1r–146v; B: ff. 147r–250v Georgius Eugenicus (RGK I 62).        

Annotations: at f. 250v Georgius EugenicusGeorgius Eugenicus wrote: Γεώργιος Βυζάντιος ὁ Ἑλληνικὸς πενίᾳ συζῶν ἐν Κρήτῃ τὸν θεῖον τόνδε Πολυδεύκην συνέγραψα ‘I, Georgius of Byzantium, a Greek, living in poverty wrote in Crete this divine Pollux in Crete’. Below he added: εὐχαριστῶ σοι Χριστὲ βασιλεῦ, ὅτι ἠξίωσάς μοι καὶ ἐτελείωσα τόνδε τὸν βιβλίον ὑγιής· μὴ ὑστερήσας με δὲ καὶ τῆς ἐπουρανίου σου βασιλείας, ἀλλὰ σὺν τῷ κεκτημένῳ ἐλθὲ καὶ μεθ’ ἡμῶν καὶ χάρισαι καὶ αὐτῷ τὰ ἐλέει σου τὰ πλούσια.

1 (ff. 1r–146v) Iohannes Chrysostomus, Homiliae 1–21 in Genesim. Title: τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἰωάννου ἀρχιεπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως τοῦ χρυσοστόμου λόγος παραινετικὸς εἰς τὴν εἴσοδον τῆς Ἁγίας Τεσσαρακοστῆς· Κύριε ἐλέησον. The content is more accurately described in Hajdú (2012, 139).

2 (ff. 147r‒250v) Pollux, Onomasticon. No title. Incipit: ὦ παῖ πατρὸς ἀγαθοῦ (1.1). Explicit: κόρημα, κιβωτόν, λύχνον (10.192). It contains all ten books: 1 (ff. 147r–157v), 2 (ff. 158r–179r), 3 (ff. 179v–186v), 4 (ff. 186v–197v), 5 (ff. 197v–203v), 6 (ff. 203v–214r), 7 (ff. 214r–222v), 8 (ff. 222v–227r), 9 (ff. 227r–238r), and 10 (ff. 238r–250v).

The manuscript was written in Crete, according to the subscription written by Georgius Eugenicus, in the third quarter of the 15th century. It is composed of two codicological units: the first codicological unit (i.e. ff. 1r–146v, containing the Homilies by John Chrysostom, see Hajdú 2012, 139) is slightly older than the one containing Pollux. The manuscript was probably assembled in Venice. It belonged then to the library of Johann Jakob FuggerJohann Jakob Fugger and in 1571 entered the Hofbibliothek of Munich (see Hajdú 2012, 141).