Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, gr. 571

Notes

BnF Ancien fonds: Codex parisinus græcus 571 (Medicianus-Regius 1915; olim no. 48).  Bombycine paper, fifteenth century (according to Omont) or late thirteenth to early fourteenth (according to Moore, p. 735), 430 folios.  Various works of Gregory Nazianzen (incl. his Easter sermons with "Psellian" commentaries).  Not listed in Mossay.

For details, see Omont in our Bibliography and our Online Resources (where we give links to two scans, one at Google Books and one at the National Library; the former is a convenient way to save the entire catalogue, the latter to save a single page).  Our link "BnF" goes to the Library's record for this manuscript.

See also the website "Répertoire des manuscrits grecs et orientaux des Discours de Grégoire de Nazianze" linked to in our Online Resources (a search "Recherche par nom" will give information for this specific manuscript).

Moore (p. 735): "s. xiii ex.-xiv in. (See P. Gautier, Theologica, 1:xv, 'Haec igitur non solum e Pselli comentariis in Or. 45 (Op. 85-86; 88-94; 99-100), sed etiam ex aliis (Op. 20; 22; 53; 57; 64; 69; 74) proveniunt; quae omnia scholiasta ita conflavit, contraxit, commutavit, ut plenam collationem in apparatu critico apponere et molestum et parum fructuosum sit. Tamen, quamquam nullus tractatus adhibitus est qui non etiam in P [Paris gr. 1182] legitur, haec scholia ex P non pendere docent complures lectiones rectae in y [Paris gr. 571] exstantes ubi P vitio affectus est (Op. 22, 56; 89; Op. 53, 140; 146; Op. 64, 94; 95; Op. 74, 132; 139; Op. 93, 45; 46; 47; Op. 99, 30; 70). Quaedam lacunae codicis P ex y expleri possunt (vide Op. 74).' The exception to Gautier's statement that all the excerpts from Psellos in Paris gr. 571 are also found in the complete works in Paris gr. 1182 is THE.77. This is not found in Paris gr. 1182, although it might have originally occurred there in a now lost section): THE.1, 12, 15, 16, 23, 39, 54, 56-59, 61-67, 69, 70, 72, 77, 130."  See Iter Psellianum in Online Resources.

Prefaced by many lines of information about various codices, when this itself was Cod. 48, with many lines stricken through and updated.

Fol. 1r, chart with information on church councils.

1v  «Γρηγορίου θεολόγου λόγους ιϚʹ, μετ' ἐξηγήσεων Νικήτου Σερρῶν, Ἰσιδώρου Χαρακηνοῦ Σταθμοὶ Παρθικοί· τελίοι [οὕτω: leg. fors. τέλειοι].»  List of contents in Latin.  In large characters, "No. 47  decimæ septimæ  /  no. 47."  Edges are cut.  By the number forty-seven, "...e duorum librorum ex Histor / ...de hoc est· secundi et quinti /  ...m carta penultima citat / ...pluribus sæculis vixit / ...[ejus?]dem qui temporibus Cyri / ...vixit Arrianus sub Hadriano."

Fols. 3r sqq. in a very neat, stunningly beautiful hand.

3r.  Subscription in a rude hand:  ͵αφιϚʹ σεπτεβρηου θ τουτο το βηβηληο ενετου μανουηλ κετάρη και [σρ?]ηματα οπου το εκοψε το βηβηληο ετουτο ειτον πεδη μικρο και μι του [leg. το?] καταραστε(!)