• John of Damascus and Miscellaneous treatises

Date:
  • 1250-1300
Language:
Author:
  • John, of Damascus, Saint
Abstract:
  • fols. 1r-13v: "Ammōniou tou philosophou tou hermeiou, prolegomena eis tēn philosophian. Mellontas hēmas archesthai philosophōn logōn, anagkaion esti mathein."
Description:
  • Physical description: I (modern) + 222+I' (modern) folios; 16.9 x 11.6 cm (13.2 x 9.5 cm); 30-32 long lines per page. Arabic paper (bombycine). Modern foliation in pencil in the outside corner of the upper margins. Quire marks by a modern hand in pencil for the purpose of rebinding, the final quire lacks the last two folios, which may have been blank.
  • Manuscript is written by one scribe using brown ink in the second half of the 13th century. Initials in pale reddish brown (red from fol. 201 on). A 16th-century hand wrote the poem on fol. 222r (in dark brown ink with red initial letters) and replacement text (on the upper right part of the page) on fol. 137r. Some notes by two different hands of the 14th and 16th centuries. One tall leafy initial outlined in brown ink and occasional strips, all in brown ink, in the hand of the scribe. The ornament of the strips is a running ribbon design outlined against a pale brown background (fol. 15r).
Binding note:
  • Modern binding (19th century); half vellum and green cloth over binder's board, with red and white end bands. Spine title: FILOSOPHIA TESTO GRECO.
Source acquisition:
  • Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund for the Princeton University Library in 2003.
Alternative:
  • Princeton MS. 180
View in catalog: