[Fragmenta varia graeca]

Collection of Greek texts from 14 distinct manuscripts; 15th century and later.

Former shelf-mark: x 882 C685 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).

Shelf-mark: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 MS 0002.

Provenance: Acquired in 1921 from Miss Alpha L. Owens, of Ithaca, N.Y.

Binding: Formerly bound in 19th-century red half morocco; bound in blue buckram by Richard C. Baker.

Ms. codex.

1. fol. 1r-8v: [Exposition of the Creed and the Lord's Prayer; On the Trinity / Sophronius Hierosolymitanus; liturgical excerpts] -- 2. fol. 9r-10v: [Historical fragments on a synod (tempore John Asan II, 1218-1241)] -- 3. fol. 11r-24r: [Poems of Symeon o neos theologos and Symeon Logothetes (including two pieces published by P. Maas, Festgabe Albert Ehrhard, 1922, p. 331-335)] -- 4. fol. 25r-84v: [Pseudo-Theophylactos, Life of S. Clement of Achrida, and related material] -- 5. fol. 85r-100v: [Theological excerpts from Barsanuphius, Gregory of Nyssa, Anastasius of Antioch, Maximus Confessor, etc.] -- 6. fol. 101r-106v: [Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, peri tåes ypachoåes, etc.] -- 7. fol. 107r-109v: [Odarion of Leo VI the Wise] -- 8. fol. 110r-111v: [Blank] -- 9. fol. 112r-127v: [Manuel Corinthius, On the Greek Church and the Roman use, On the zodiac; Cosmographical notes, etc.; chronological list of rulers; fragment of Gregory Nazianzen] -- 10. fol. 129r-170v: [Two treatises by Gregory Palamas, paged 1231-1264 and 1465-1496, with prefixed tables of contents in a later hand] -- 11. fol. 171r-177v: [Copies of five letters, one dated 1671] -- 12. fol. 178r-v: [Blank] -- 13. fol. 179r-184v: [Fragments of monastic rules (of Mount Athos) and other material] -- 14. fol. 185r-v: [Letter of 1656; metrical treatise] -- 15. fol. 186r-188v: [Letter of Georgios Amarutzes] -- 16. fol. 189r-220v: [Various modern letters and poems].

Lowe, C. G. "A Byzantine Manuscript of the University of Illinois." Speculum, 4 (1929),

Friedman, John B. (3)4z(BMain Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.(3)4y (BThe Library Quarterly, 57.1 (1987),

De Ricci,

Collection of Greek texts from 14 distinct manuscripts; 15th century and later.

Mode of access: Internet.

Item cataloged in hand by the staff of the University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library (CC), 20 June 2006.