Parisinus graecus 2671 – Ps

Previous descriptions: Omont (1888, 23–4).

Reproductions: Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Family: d²

Siglum: Ps

Shelfmark: Parisinus graecus 2671

Date: First third of the 16th century

Format: paper, 155×101 mm, VI + 436 ff.

Material: in a good state of conservation.

Binding: original, in brown leather, no decorations.

Watermarks: anchor within a circle with a six–pointed star above, close to Piccard Anker V 233 (Brescia 1532) or Briquet 485 (1547–1553); lamb bearing a flag within a circle, i.e. Briquet 58 (Rome 1537).

Scribes: Pollux’s Onomasticon was written by a single scribe.

Annotations: –

1 (1r–190v) Pollux, Onomasticon. Preceded by the Prefatory EpigramPrefatory epigram (Pollux). Incipit: ὦ παῖ πατρὸς ἀγαθοῦ (1.1). Explicit: κόρημα, κιβωτόν, καὶ λύχνον (10.192). It contains all ten books: 1 (ff. 1r‒36r, 36v blank), 2 (ff. 37r‒60r, 60v blank), 3 (ff. 61r‒72r), 4 (ff. 72v‒89r), 5 (ff. 89v‒98v), 6 (ff. 99r‒116r, 116v blank), 7 (ff. 117r‒130v), 8 (ff. 130v‒150r), 9 (ff. 150r‒169v), and 10 (ff. 170r‒190v).

ff. 191–192: blank.

2 (193r–204v) Alphabetic lexicon. Title: ἰδοὺ καὶ ἕτερον λεξικὸν κατὰ στοιχεῖον περιέχον τὰ πολυώνυμα τῶν ῥημάτων. Incipit: ἀγαπῶ φιλῶ ἀσπάζομαι στέργω. Explicit: ὠφελῶ ὀνίνημι λυσιτελῶ συντελῶ. Not yet edited.

3 (205r–263v) Leo medicus, Conspectus medicinae. Title: Λέοντος φιλοσόφου καὶ ἱατροῦ σύνοψις ἱατρική. Edited in Ermerins (1963, 80–6, 89–217). See also Buzzi (2019).

4 (f. 264r) Medical recipe. Incipit: εἰ δέ τις πιὼν φάρμακον οὐ καθαίροιτο, μελίκρατον ἀκρατέστερον δίδου. Not edited.

5 (ff. 264v–265v) List of symptoms of an incoming death. Incipit: εἰ κεφαλαλγίαν ἕξει ἢ οἴδημα εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον ἄνευ βηχός. Explicit: εἰς κ ἡμέρας ἀποθανεῖται. Edited using this manuscript in Boissonade (1844, 363–5).

f. 266: blank.

6 (ff. 267r–277r) Latin–Greek lexicon of legal terms. No title. Incipit: ἄδετ· ἔχει. Explicit: <φ>ινίουμ ῥεγουνδόρουμ· τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν τῶν ἀγρογειτόνων γυμναζόμενον ἐχόντων περὶ ὅρων πρὸς ἀλλήλους φιλονεικίας; (ff. 277r–284v) The second part of this Latin–Greek lexicon. No title. Incipit: ἀγωγή· παρὰ τὸ ἄγειν τοὺς ἀγομένους εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον. Explicit: ὡς κονούμαξ· ὡς σούπεκτον. Not edited. The same lexicon is preserved in Marc. gr. Ζ 174Marc. gr. Ζ 174, and Vat. gr. 852Vat. gr. 852.

7 (ff. 285r–304r) Medical recipes; ff. 286v–287r and ff. 289r–303r are blank.

ff. 304v–306v: blank.

8 (ff. 307r–311r) Nicephorus Blemmydes, De urinis carmen. Title: περὶ οὔρων τοῦ σοφωτάτου καῖ λογιωτάτου Βλεμ<μ>ίδους. Edited in Kouzes (1944).

9 (ff. 312r–315v) Medical recipes.

ff. 316–3453: blank.

10 (f. 345v) List of people.

f. 346: blank.

11 (ff. 347r–368r) Fictional letters. No title. Incipit: παραινετική· τῶν πανταχόσε διαφημιζόμενων σπουδαίων ἀνδρῶν. Explicit: ἐπὶ σοί μετὰ θεὸν τὰ τῆς ἐλπίδος μοὶ ἐπερρίφθησαν.

ff. 368v–387r: blank.

12 (ff. 387v–397r) <Nilus Cerameus>, Nova ecthesis. Title: ἔκθεσις νέα εἰς πατριάρχας βασιλεῖς δεσπότας καίσαρας ῥηγάδας καὶ λοιπούς. Edited in Darrouzès (1969); this manuscript has the siglum K.

f. 397v: blank.

13 (ff. 398r–420r) [Libanius], Characteres epistolici. Preceded by a summary (f. 398r). Edited in Foerster (1903–1927 vol. 9, 27–47); this manuscript was not included in the edition; f. 420v was left blank; (ff. 421r–v) [Libanius], Epistulae pseudepigraphae 6–7. Edited in Foerster (1903–1927 vol. 11, 563–71).

14 (ff. 422r–432v) <Photius, Epistulae 245, 234>. No title. Edited in Laourdas, Westerink (1988).

15 (ff. 433r–v) Demetrius Cydones, Epistula 420. Edited in Loenertz (1960).

ff. 434r–435v: blank.

16 (f. 436r) Brief theological discourse. No title. Incipit: <ἑ>πόμενοι Παύλῳ καὶ τοῖς αὐτοῦ ὀπαδοῖς. Explicit: μᾶλλον ἢ θεραπεύεσθαι.

17 (f. 436v) Letter of patriarch of Constantinople Dionysius. Title: Διονύσιος ἐλέῳ θεοῦ ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Νέας Ῥώμης καὶ οἰκουμενικός πατριάρχης. Incipit: θεοφιλέστατε ἐπίσκοπε οδας(?) χάρις εἴη τῇ σῇ θεοφιλείᾳ. Explicit: εἴη μετὰ τῆς σῆς θεοφιλείας. Not edited.

This manuscript, a miscellany of lexicography, medicine and rhetoric, is quite recent compared to the other witnesses of Pollux’s text, as it can be dated to the early 16th century (see also the presence on f. 436v of an epistle by Dionysius, who was Patriarch of Constantinople in 1466–1471 and 1488–1490). It provides a particularly precise and accurate text of the Onomasticon, probably contaminated by two or more codices descending from the sub-archetype d². It belonged to the library of Cardinal Jules MazarinJules Mazarin (1602–1661), who acquired its Greek books in 1653 from the French ambassador in Constantinople, Jean de la HayeJean de la Haye (1593–1661). His collection was later acquired by the French royal library in 1668, thanks to the efforts of Jean-Baptiste ColbertJean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683). On the history of Mazarin’s library see Gasnault (1988) and Förstel (2000).