Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, AN III 11

Clément Malgonne, Universitätsbibliothek Basel, October 2018.

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Manuscript title: EPISTULAE PAULI CUM CATENA (Erasmus)

Dates of origin:

10th century, 2nd half
11th century

Alternative name: Aland minsucule 2817

Support: Parchment

Extent: 392 ff.

Format: 28,5 x 22 cm

Foliation: Modern pencil foliation: 1-257.258|259.260-387. For no apparent reason, f. 258 is foliated "258|259".

Collation: (IV-1)7 + 27 IV223 + (III-1)228 + 9 IV301 + III307 + 7 IV363 + (IV-1)370 + IV378 + (IV+1)387.
Notable irregularities in the composition of quires: The 1st leaf of the 1st quire is missing, resulting in the loss of the beginning of the Euthalian prologue to the Pauline epistles; after f. 228, the last leaf of the final quire of unit I is missing, apparently without loss of content; after f. 370, a leaf was cancelled; the last leaves of the volume, which used to contain Hebrews 12:18-end, are now lost; the last leaf f. 387, used to be the 1st leaf of the last quire (lost) and is now joined to the preceding quire.
Some later Byzantine quire signatures in light greyish-brown ink are common to both codicological units (f. 8r αʹ - f. 387r μθʹ, 1st quire containing introductory texts was not counted) and are located at the bottom left-hand corner of the 1st page of quires.

Condition: Two codicological units (unit I on ff. 1-228 and unit II on ff. 229-387). In both units, the parchment leaves are of reasonably good quality: white, but with occasional hair follicles (e.g. ff. 12v, 108v, 164v, 252r, 265r, 281r, 349r, 353r) and rare holes (e.g. ff. 295, 300). The leaves of unit II are thinner than those of unit I. In unit II some leaves have been polished so much that they almost appear as transparent (e.g. ff. 233, 240, 271, 293, 308, 366). The leaves of the book block have been trimmed, resulting in the loss of most of the earliest quire signatures. The bottom part of f. 7 protrudes out of the book block. A reinforcing strip has been pasted in the gutter of ff. 1, 6-7, 311-312 and 313-314.
The leaves of the book block are cockled and the parchment flyleaves are slightly wormed. The margins of several leaves present black stains left by inky fingers (e.g. 103-109, 127-129, 179v, 192v-199r, 226r, 250v, 297r), which might possibly be those of Johann Froben’s typographers who are also suspected to have left the very similar stains found in the codices Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, AN IV 4 and AN IV 1 (suggested in Andrist 2018, 145). Numerous leaves of the volume present yellow, brown or black stains caused by humidity, ink or dirt. On f. 7v, a stain of blue paint was left by the freshly painted pyle on the opposite page.

Page layout: In both codicological units, the catena frames the Pauline text on 3 sides. The ruling was made in hardpoint and its patterns consist of two columns separated by a decentralised intercolumn (on rectos, the larger column is the left-hand column). The Pauline text occupies the central part of the larger column, and the commentary the entirety of the narrower column along with the upper and lower parts of the larger column. Pricking holes are generally visible.

Decoration: Initials and borders

Major initials: at the beginning of Romans (f. 8r), initial pi (27 x 20 mm) filled with blue and green paint, the 2 vertical bars being decorated with blue, green, red and white rings and ribbons and the horizontal bar with small vegetative ornaments; at the beginning of 1 Thess., 2 Thess., the hypothesis of 2 Thess. and of 1 Tim., rubricated initial decorated with rings and vegetative ornaments; at the beginning of Gal., Col. and 1 Tim., rubricated initial decorated with rings and ribbons; at the beginning of 1 Cor., 2 Cor. and the hypothesis of 1 Thess., rubricated initial with limited decoration; at the beginning of the hypotheses of 1 Cor., 2 Cor., Eph., Col. and 2 Tim., small rubricated initials without decorative features (similar to minor initials); at the beginning of Phil., 2 Tim., Tit., Philem. and Heb., initials in black ink without decorative features; no initials for the introductory texts of the first quire; 1st letter of the hypotheses of Tit., Phil. and Heb. totally absent.
Minor initials in unit I are rubricated and divide the text of the catena into sections. Those are accompanied in the margin by a cross-reference number pointing to the Pauline text. In unit II, minor initials are rare and written in brown ink, but exceptionally rubricated on f. 290v and 291v.
Decorative borders: Before Romans (f. 8r), much-faded painted pyle (100 x 30 mm), filled with squares each containing a green and blue rosette on purple ground or a white diamond with green dots on purple ground, accompanied at each side by a big blue and green leaf and adorned at both upper corners with a big green, blue and red leaf; before Galatians (f. 229r), rubricated rectangular headpiece (80 x 10 mm) filled with leaf scrolls and decorated with a small trefoil at each corner; before Colossians (f. 281v), rubricated rectangular headpiece (80 x 10 mm) filled with zizag motifs which are adorned with small ornaments; before and after 1 and 2 Corinthians, rubricated wavy line with leaf terminals and space-fillers; between the introductory texts of the first quire, decorative line made up of s-shapes and s-curves.

Additions: Notes and marginalia

Apparatus of the catena: Next to the catena in the outer margins and above the lines of the Pauline text, cross-reference numbers (from αʹ to ρʹ, then starting anew) and various cross-reference symbols link the catena with the corresponding place in the Pauline text (very incomplete in unit II except for 1 Thess. and 2 Thess.); next to the catena in the outer margin or within the text of the catena, author names and the word ἄλλως occasionally indicate a change of author (very rare in unit II); each section of the catena usually starts with a short lemma taken from the Pauline text.
Apparatus of the Pauline text: in the top margins, titles and numbers of Euthalian kephalaia (Edition Blomkvist, “Euthalian Traditions”, 2012, 45-60), the numbers being repeated next to the text (incomplete in unit II); references to the Old Testament next to the text (absent in unit II); a few lection notes with ἀρχή/τέλος marks.
Greek notes of later dates: A reader called Theodoulos the Monk in the 13th/14th century (?) left the two signed notes μνήθητι κύριε Θεοδούλου on f. 2r and μνίσθητι κύριε τὸν δούλων σου Θεόδουλον μονναχὸν καὶ μαθ[…] on f. 6v, and maybe also the hastily written heading of f. 1r; a very much faded and hardly legible greenish inscription Τὸ ͵αφιγʹ [?] […] [= a.D. 1513] written at the top of the blank page f. 6v; on the same page, a kontakion of Saint Luke the Evangelist (see “Contents”); a table of content listing the Pauline epistles of the volume on f. 7r (see “Contents”); titles and numbering of epistles in the top margins of both codicological units, the numbers being repeated on every recto pages; in the Pauline text of both codicological units, frequent interlinear commentaries in greyish brown ink by a tiny hand, which also wrote a fragment of Maximus the Confessor’s Capita de Caritate on f. 146v below the text (see “Contents”); the Euthalian hypothesis to Galatians added by a 13/14th century hand on blank page f. 228v (see “Contents”); corrections to the text of the catena added in greyish brown ink by several hands on ff. 23v, 42r, 43r, 54r, 58r, 76v and 219v; marginal indication λείπει by a late hand showing where some words are missing; a lot of lection notes and ἀρχή/τέλος marks.
The manuscript presents some traces of its use for Erasmus’ 1516 edition of the New Testament. In 1515, Nikolaus Gerbel, who was in charge of the proofreading of the manuscript before the typesetting, wrote in the bottom margin of f. 314r Hic sudavit Gerbellius (Brown 2004, 5; Andrist 2016b, 109). Moreover, next to the Pauline text several typographical marks in greyish brown, usually consisting of a vertical line topped by 2 or 3 dots (called “matches” by P. Andrist, French “allumettes” in Andrist 2018, 151), roughly indicate page-breaks of Erasmus’ 1516 edition (“alumette” on f. 185v = page break between pp. 61-62 in edition; f. 196v = pp. 64-65; f. 275v = pp. 98-99; f. 282v = pp. 102-103; f. 288v = pp. 105-106; f. 290r = pp. 106-107; f. 305r = pp. 116-117; f. 311r = pp. 119-120; f. 322r = pp. 124-125; f. 331v = pp. 129-130; f. 336r = pp. 131-132; f. 339v = pp. 133-134; f. 360r = pp. 138-139; f. 362v = pp. 139-140; f. 366v = pp. 141-142; f. 368v = pp. 142-143; f. 371r = pp. 143-144, f. 377r = pp. 146-147). Those are occasionally accompanied within the text by short vertical strokes indicating the point where in the edition the page-break was initially intended to be, but do not always precisely coincide with the actual page-breaks (ff. 322r, 368v, 377r; Brown 2005, 5). Above and below a word of the Pauline text on f. 278v, presence of 2 horizontal strokes of typographical nature indicating a line-break within that word in the edition (Andrist 2018, 151).
The manuscript also presents notes by western hands. In the 15th century, a man called Johannes Campionus (?) used f. 6v for a draft, in dei nomine amen ego Iohannes Campion … In nomine (?) in dei nomine. Marinus (?). In dei nomine domini ego Iohannes quan … In nomine dei domini ego Iohannes canpi … . Over that note, another western hand wrote a very small and barely legible inscription. In the margin of Philippians 4 on f. 278v, a humanistic hand of the 16th century left the note An Erasmus hec legit ut Paulo uxorem fuisse adfirmet (?) Cum hic stultum dicat E. (?) hoc sentire … [incomplete], which seemingly refers to Erasmus’ annotations commenting the passage (cf. Erasmus, Annotationes in Philippenses, IV, 3, in Edition Poll-van de Lisdonk 2009, 320-324). In the margin of f. 89r, a hand of the 16th century indicated a "questio" and further a "responsio", and wrote on f. 90r Apollo primus episcopus Corinthiorum. On f. 122r, a 16th century hand left the marginal note Quare fratres domini sunt appellati. A 16th century hand wrote on f. 233r Cephas non fuit Petrus ex LXX [...], and on f. 269v another similar hand gave the author indication Chrysostomum. A 15th century (?) hand added numbers of chapters next to the Pauline text and might also have written Alii hic habent ca[pitulum] in the margin of f. 245v. An early modern hand added running titles with numbers of chapters in the top margins. The university librarian of the 17th century, Conrad Pfister, wrote on final page f. 387v Hic deficit textus capitis xii versus 18 posterioris partis usque ad finem capitis et integrum caput xiii vetustate perditum.
Various marks: frequent marginal strokes in greyish brown ink marking some lines of the catena in both codicological units (e.g. ff. 13v, 40v, 41v, 43v etc…); some lines of the catena underlined in greyish brown ink; in the left margin of f. 91r, next to the Pauline text, curious mark looking like an “alumette” (see above); on f. 62r, marginal cross in light brown ink; on ff. 17r, 18r and 276r, small marks next to several lines of the catena; on f. 160r, pen-trial in red ink; scribble on f. 8r next to the Pauline text.

Binding:

Pasteboard binding of the 16th century (29,5 x 22 cm), covered with a tanned orange-brown skin damaged by many abrasions, especially on the spine, hinges and board edges.
Boards of pasteboard (edges: 5 mm): equipped with 2 pairs of green ties attached through the boards (now broken off) and fixed with 2 patches on the back side of each board (visible in relief through the pastedowns); blind-tooled (from centre to periphery: one vertically oriented central rectangle (19 x 10 cm) with 4 compartments, each containing a saltire cross; one thick ornamental frame (25 x 16 cm) enclosing the central rectangle; one larger two-line border frame (29 x 20 cm) enclosing the first frame).
Flat spine: blind-tooled with 7 lines imitating raised bands; destroyed headcaps; 2 endbands of white and pink threads that are worn so much that they reveal the hemp or linen core; at the top, 2 brittle paper labels of 19th century with title; at the bottom, modern label with classmark.
Endleaves: 1 front paper pastedown made of 3 leaves pasted on one another (current and former classmarks; small blue stamp; bibliographical information referring to Tischendorf and Wettstein; Omont’s entry for AN III 11 cut out from H. Omont’s catalogue); 1st front paper flyleaf with current classmark written on the verso; 2nd front paper flyleaf with a letter from Max Eberhardt pasted on the verso (see ʺProvenanceʺ); 1st front parchment flyleaf, which used to be a pastedown (pieces of leather from the turn-ins are stuck on its recto) and contains on its verso an ex-libris of the Basel University Library, 2 scraped-off Greek inscriptions, the titles "Ep(isto)le Pauli" and "Paulus" (15/16th century); 2nd front parchment flyleaf, attached to the 1st quire and containing on its recto an ex-libris of the Monastery of the Dominicans of Basel and the title "Pauli epistole graece cum graeca enarratione n°58" written by an early modern hand on a pasted piece of paper; 2 back paper flyleaves; 1 back paper pastedown made up of 3 leaves pasted on one another. All paper flyleaves have a watermark of the crosier of Basel encircled in a large ornate oval.

Accompanying materials: The fore-edge is equipped with 13 leaf markers of black leather.

Provenance of the manuscript:

On the 1st front parchment flyleaf, the inscriptions "+ ἡ βίβλ(ος)" and below "+ ἡ β[ίβλος …]" might have been written by a Byzantine owner, but a subsequent owner scraped them off. John Stojković of Ragusa acquired that manuscript, corresponding to MS n°XV in John Cuno's 1511 list, when he was in Constantinople on a mission for the Council of Basel between 1435 and 1437 (Vernet 1961, 85 n° XV). In 1437, John of Ragusa came back to Basel bringing the codex with him. At his death in 1443, the codex was bequeathed to the Monastery of the Dominicans of Basel, who left on the second front parchment flyleaf the ex-libris Hic liber epistolarum divi Pauli apostoli est fratrum Ordinis Predicatorum Basiliensis.
In 1515, Erasmus of Rotterdam borrowed the manuscript from the monastery of the Dominicans for his edition of the New Testament (J. Froben, Novum Instrumentum omne: diligenter ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum & emendatum, Basel 1516). Erasmus used its text of the Pauline epistles, the short subscriptiones at the end of each of them and the hypotheses prefixed before each of them, with the exception of the hypothesis of the Epistle to the Romans which he took from Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, AN IV 4 (Brown 2013, 2; Brown 2004, 6; Andrist 2016b, 99-100). He also turned to AN IV 4 for the end of the Epistle to the Hebrews (12:18-13:25), which in this codex is lost with the leaves missing at the end. The note on f. 314r hic sudavit Gerbellius, written by Erasmus’ assistant Nikolaus Gerbel, suggests that Gerbel certainly was the one in charge of the proofreading of the manuscript (Brown 2004, 5; Andrist 2016, 109). Erasmus then entrusted the manuscript to the Basel printer Johann Froben: Several pages of the volume present typographical marks indicating page breaks (see “Additions: Notes and marginalia”). Besides, in the scope of his annotations on the Pauline Epistles, which he included in his 1516 Novum Instrumentum, Erasmus also made use of the codex for his study of what he called the “scholia Graeca”, referring to the multiple Patristic commentaries constituting together the “Pseudo-Oecumenian catena” of this manuscript (Brown 2016, 129; Poll-van de Lisdonk 2009, 26, 31; Hovingh 2012, 11; Dill 2004, 103).

Acquisition of the manuscript: In 1559, the manuscript was transferred to the University of Basel along with the rest of the collection of the Dominicans: The university librarian Heinrich Pantaleon wrote on the 1st front parchment flyleaf Ex libris bibliothece academie Basiliensis 1559.
Around 1897, the Basel University Library sent the volume to the State Archives of Schaffhausen to put it at the theologian Max Eberhardt’s disposal. On April 1, 1897, it was sent from there back to Basel: That day, Eberhadt namely wrote a letter to the administration of the University Library, giving confirmation of the shipping and providing codicological and palaeographical remarks. That letter is today pasted on the verso of the second front paper flyleaf.

Bibliography:

Wettstein, Johann Jakob. - Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscriptorum ... Tomus II. - Amstelaedami, 1752, p. 11 n° 7.
Omont, Henri. - Catalogue des manuscrits grecs des bibliothèques de Suisse : Bâle, Berne, Einsiedeln, Genève, St. Gall, Schaffhouse et Zürich. - Leipzig, 1886, p. 8 n°11.
Hoskier, Herman Charles. - A full account and collation of the Greek cursive codex Evangelium 604. - London, 1890, Appendix F, p. 5.
Van de Vorst, Charles; Delehaye, Hippolyte. - Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum graecorum Germaniae Belgii, Angliae (Subsidia Hagiographica 13). - Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1914 (reprinted 1968), p. 194.
Staab, Karl. - Pauluskommentare aus der griechischen Kirche aus Katenenhandschriften gesammelt und herausgegeben. - Münster, 1933, pp. XIV-XV.
Vernet, André. - Les manuscrits grecs de Jean de Raguse. - In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 61 (1961), pp. 75-108, here p. 85, n° XV.
Bentley, Jerry H. - Humanists and the Holy Writ. New Testament scholarship in the Renaissance. - Princeton, 1983, p. 128.
Cataldi Palau, Annaclara. - Legature costantinopolitane del monasterio di Prodromo Petra tra i manoscritti di Giovanni di Ragusa († 1443). - In: Codices Manuscripti. Zeitschrift für Handschriftenkunde 37/38 (2001), pp. 11-50, here p. 15.
Brown, Andrew J. - Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami. VI-3. Novum Testamentum ab Erasmo recognitum. Epistolae Apostolicae (prima pars). - Amsterdam, Boston, Heidelberg, 2004, introductory plates and pp. 1-2, 4-7, 11.
Dill, Ueli. - Prolegomena zu einer Edition von Erasmus von Rotterdam "Scholia in Epistolas Hieronymi". Dissertation zur Erlangung der Würde eines Doktors der Philosophie vorgelegt der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel. - Basel, 2004, p. 103.
Poll-van de Lisdonk, Maria Laetitia. - Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami. VI-9. Annotationes in Novum Testamentum (pars quinta). - Leiden, Boston, 2009, pp. 24, 26, 31.
Cataldi Palau, Annaclara. - Jean Stojković de Raguse († 1443) : L’influence de ses manuscrits dans la diffusion de la culture Byzantine en Suisse et en Allemagne. - In: Annuaire de l’Université de Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", Centre de Recherches Slavo-Byzantines "Ivan Dujčev" 96 (15) (2011), pp. 93-132, here pp. 109, 112.
Hovingh, Pieter Frans. - Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami. VI-7. Annotationes in Novum Testamentum (pars tertia). - Leiden, Boston, 2012, p. 11.
Brown, Andrew J. - Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami. VI-4. Novum Testamentum ab Erasmo recognitum. Epistolae Apostolicae (secunda Pars) et Apocalypsis Iohannis. - Leiden, Boston, 2013, pp. 2-3, 23.
Elliott, James Keith. - A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts. Third Edition. Supplements to Novum Testamentum. - Leiden, Boston, 2015, p. 325.
Andrist, Patrick. - Der griechische Text: “Basler” Handschriften als Vorlagen. - In: Dill, Ueli; Schierl, Petra (eds.), Das bessere Bild Christi. Das Neue Testament in der Ausgabe des Erasmus von Rotterdam. - Basel, 2016, pp. 99-109, here pp. 100, 108-109. (= Andrist 2016b)
Andrist, Patrick. - Structure and history of the Biblical manuscripts used by Erasmus for his 1516 edition. - In: Wallraff, Martin; Seidel Menchi, Silvana; Von Greyerz, Kaspar (eds.), Basel 1516: Erasmus’ Edition of the New Testament. - Tübingen, 2016, pp. 81-124, here pp. 115-123. (= Andrist 2016a)
Brown, Andrew J. - The Manuscript Sources and Textual Character of Erasmus’ 1516 Greek New Testament. - In: Wallraff, Martin; Seidel Menchi, Silvana; Von Greyerz, Kaspar (eds.), Basel 1516. Erasmus’ Edition of the New Testament (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation 91). - Tübingen, 2016, pp. 125-144, here pp. 129-130.
Dill, Ueli. - Das Novum Instrumentum von 1516. - In: Dill, Ueli; Schierl, Petra (eds.), Das bessere Bild Christi. Das Neue Testament in der Ausgabe des Erasmus von Rotterdam. - Basel, 2016, pp. 67-97, here pp. 78, 81.
Andrist, Patrick. - Érasme 1514-1516 et les étapes de la préparation du texte biblique et des prologues grecs du Novum Instrumentum : le témoignage des manuscrits. - In: Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Etudes. Sciences Religieuses 181 (2018), pp. 135-195, here pp. 140-141, 149-153, 155, 157-159, 161-164, 167-168.
Pinakes database: Diktyon 8898.

Codicological unit: I 1r-228v

Collation: Unit I (ff. 1-228) containing Rom. - 2 Cor., which was copied in the 2nd half of the 10th century, certainly used to be either a volume on its own of the Pauline epistles until 2 Cor., or the 1st part of a 2-volume edition of the Pauline epistles. It is however unlikely to have been part of a larger volume since its copyist, who chose to copy the hypothesis of each epistle on the page immediately following the end of the preceding epistle (on f. 87r-v between Rom. and 1 Cor., and on f. 167r-v between 1 Cor. and 2 Cor.), would certainly have copied a hypothesis for Galatians on f. 228v, instead of leaving that page blank (Andrist 2016a, 122). The 1st quire (ff. 1-7) containing the introductory texts to the Pauline epistles is autonomous.
Byzantine quire signatures written in brown ink by the 1st copyist (?) are to be found in unit I. They are mostly lost to trimming and are located at the bottom left-hand corner of the 1st page of quires (signature complete on f. 224r, yet only remnants on ff. 80r, 104r, 136r, 152r, 168r, 192r, 200r, 224r), but also at the bottom right-hand corner of the last page of quires (remnants on ff. 87v, 111v, 143v, 159v, 199v, 207v). An oblique decorative stroke is present on top of all those quire signatures. The peculiar location of those signatures on the page and the use of those oblique strokes happen to be congruent with the system of signatures employed in the codices of the so-called “Ephrem scriptorium” of Constantinople, such as Athos Vatopedi 949 and Lavra B 64, Marcianus gr. Z. 201 or Vaticanus gr. 124 (the script of unit I is also qualified by some scholars as “Ephrem type”; see “Writing and hands”). Nonetheless, unlike this codex, many Ephrem manuscripts (though not all of them) also present a small cross at the top left-hand corner of the 1st page of quires (cf. J. Irigoin, “Pour une étude des centres de copie byzantins. Suite”, Scriptorium 13-2, 1959, 181-193; L. Perria, Graphis. Per una storia della scrittura greca libraria, 2011, 86).

Page layout: The global text area is of about 23 x 15 cm. On catena pages, the ruling pattern corresponds to Leroy K 34C2. The Pauline text presents between 2 and 19 lines (but usually about 12) with 10 mm of space between ruled text lines, but the catena between 28 and 32 lines with 8 mm of space between ruled text lines. When some parts of the catena could not fit into their usual ruled area, the copyist wrote them in very narrow additional columns in the outer margins (e.g. ff. 59r, 63v, 64r) or in the intercolumn (f. 67r). The pages containing hypotheses were ruled with the same pattern as catena pages, but their text is written in single column and simply crosses the intercolumn. Also written in single column, the pages of the autonomous introductory quire present the patterns Leroy 22C1 and 32C1, and contain 28 lines with a space between ruled text lines of 7 mm.

Writing and hands:

A sloping cursive mixed minuscule bookhand of Ephrem type, datable to the 2nd half of the 10th century (P. Andrist and P. Canart, in Andrist 2016a, 119; but formerly dated in H. Omont 1886, 8 to the 11th century; for more similarities with Ephrem manuscripts, see the aforementioned quire signatures in ʺCollationʺ). Height of about 2,5 mm in the Biblical text and of 1,5 mm in the catena. The text sometimes hangs from the ruled lines, sometimes rests on them, as it is quite frequently the case among minuscule manuscripts of the middle and 2nd half of the 10th century.
About 15% of letters are majuscules, among which some are occasionally slightly enlarged, notably sigma encircling smaller letter, and kappa, tau, epsilon and iota. Frequent use of very rounded gammas and large bowl-shaped upsilons.
Fairly extensive use of ligatures. Apart from nomina sacra, almost no abbreviation in the Pauline text, but many syllabic and word abbreviations in the catena (abbreviation of φησί omnipresent; s-shaped abbreviation of καί very large at the beginning of lines).
The accentuation is complete: breathings sometimes angular, sometimes round; circumflexes sometimes small, sometimes wide; punctuation including upper, middle and lower point, “haple” comma quotation marks, and lastly a colon followed by a horizontal dash marking the end of a section of the catena. Mute iotas are adscript.

Decoration:

The titles of hypotheses and epistles are written in a mixed minuscule not significantly bigger than the script of the main text; all of them are rubricated, except those of the introductory texts of the 1st quire, which are written in regular brown ink; the title of the Euthalian prologue to the Pauline epistles is lost with the missing leaf at the beginning (a later hand hastily rewrote one in brown ink in the top margin of f. 1r).

Other rubricated elements: Euthalian kephalaia; cross-reference numbers above the lines of the Pauline text and same numbers repeated next to the relevant section of the catena; various cross-reference symbols; now and then marginal ἄλλως indicating a change of author in the catena; sometimes marginal author names next to the catena (listed in “Content”); references to the Old Testament next to the Pauline text; brief lection notes above or next to the Pauline text; rare ἀρχή/τέλος marks for church readings next to the Pauline text; 3 crosses marking the end of 2 Corinthians; an interlinear addition to the Pauline text on f. 187v; a few elements of the later table of content on f. 7r.

Contents:

1r-2r <Euthalius Diaconus>: Prologus in quattuordecim sancti Pauli apostoli Epistulas. >[Heading by later hand:] Αἱ ιδʹ ἐπιστολαὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Παύλου ἡρμηνευόμεναι< [Beginning lost with missing leaf] //ἀπελθὼν καὶ τῶν ἀπορρήτων μυστηρίων γίνεται κοινωνὸς …–… ὡς ἐν συντόμῳ εἰπεῖν αὗται.
Edition V. Blomkvist, Euthalian Traditions, 2012, 101-104; PG 85, 697B-713B; Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca 1453-1456b.
2r-4v <Euthalius Diaconus>: Peregrinatio Pauli Apostoli. >Ἀποδημίαι Παύλου τοῦ ἀποστόλου< Ἀπὸ Δαμασκοῦ ἤρξατο καὶ ἀνῆλθεν εἰς Ἰερουσαλήμ …–… ἀπὸ τῆς κλήσεως αὐτοῦ μέχρι τῆς τελειώσεως τριάκοντα καὶ πέντε.
Edition PG 118, 312B-316C; Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca 1457.
4v Passio Pauli Apostoli. >Μαρτύριον Παύλου τοῦ ἀποστόλου< Ἐπὶ Νέρωνος τοῦ Καίσαρος Ῥωμαίων, ἐμαρτύρησεν αὐτόθι Παῦλος ὁ ἀπόστολος ξίφει …–… ἔτει τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίας.
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca 1458-1459.
4v-6r <Euthalius Diaconus>: Argumentum Epistulae ad Romanos. >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ἐπιστολῆς Παύλου< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Κορίνθου, μήπω μὲν ἑωρακὼς Ῥωμαίους, ἀκούων δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπιποθῶν αὐτοὺς ἰδεῖν …–… Μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα παραινετικοὺς λόγους εἰς τὰ ἤθη διδάξας, τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 73-75; PG 118, 317A-320B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249.
6v Blank page with a kontakion of Saint Luke the Evangelist.
[Kontakion by a later hand:] >Κοντάκιον τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου καὶ εὐαγγελιστοῦ Λουκᾶ. Ἦχος βʹ … < Τὸν ἀληθῆ τῆς εὐσεβείας κήρυκα καὶ μυστικὸν τῶν ἀπορρήτων ῥήτορα …–… σὺν Παύλῳ τῷ σοφῷ ἐθνῶν διδάσκαλον, ὁ μόνος γινώσκων τὰ ἐγκάρδια.
7r Blank page with a list of content.
[By later hand:] >Πίναξ τῶν ιδʹ ἐπιστολῶν< αʹ Πρὸς Ῥωμαίους …–… ιδʹ Πρὸς Ἑβραίους.
7v Blank page.
8r-87r Epistula Pauli ad Romanos. >Ἐπιστολαὶ τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Παύλου πρὸς Ῥωμαίους< Παῦλος, δοῦλος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, κλητὸς ἀπόστολος, ἀφωρισμένος εἰς εὐαγγέλιον θεοῦ …–… Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Xριστοῦ μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text (Staab 1933, XV; und Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 118, 324B-336A (τὸ ἀποῦσι γράφειν αἴτιον τοῦ κεῖσθαι αὐτοῦ τὸ ὄνομα … - … Ταύτην ὅρον ἀεὶ ποιεῖν αὐτῷ φίλον). Apart from Pseudo-Oecumenius, the names of the following authors are also mentioned: Theodoret of Cyrrhus (ff. 12r, 18v, 21v, 75v), Severian of Gabala (ff. 25r, 26r, 33v, 72r, 73v, 75v, 81v, 86v), John Chrysostom (ff. 37v, 46v, 78v, 79v), Cyril of Alexandria (34v, 46v, 57v), Gennadius of Constantinople (ff. 13v, 65v), Gregory of Nazianzus (f. 4r, 54v), Isidorus of Pelusium (f. 14r), Gregory of Nyssa (f. 55v), Basil of Caesarea (f. 55v), Dionysius of Alexandria (f. 66r), Photius? Tryphon? (ff. 38v, 41v).
87r Subscriptio in Epistulam ad Romanos cum stichometria. Πρὸς Ῥωμαίους. Ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Κορίνθου διὰ Φοίβης τῆς διακόνου τῆς ἐν Κεγχρεαῖς ἐκκλησίας. Στίχων ϡκʹ.
Edition H. Von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt I,1, Berlin 1902, 300.
87v <Euthalius Diaconus>: Argumentum prioris ad Corinthios Epistulae. >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Κοριθίους πρώτης ἐπιστολῆς< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ἐφέσου τῆς Ἀσίας, ἑωρακὼς αὐτοὺς ἤδη καὶ διδάξας …–… περὶ λογίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους παραγγέλλει. Καὶ οὕτως τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 75-77; PG 118, 636B-637A; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249.
88r-167r Epistula Pauli ad Corinthios I. >Πρὸς Κορινθίους πρώτη< Παῦλος κλητὸς ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ …–… Ἡ ἀγάπη μου μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text, including a hypothesis of Theodoret of Cyrrhus (Staab 1933, XV; and Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 118, 637B-905B (Ὁρῶν ὁ δαίμων οὕτω πολυάνθρωπον τὴν Κόρινθον ... - ... ἐν Χριστῷ γὰρ ἔσται ἡ ἀγάπη μου μεθ' ὑμῶν). Apart from Pseudo-Oecumenius, the names of the following authors are also mentioned: Theodoret of Cyrrhus (ff. 90r, 99v, 113r, 126r, 128r, 136r, 137r, 139r, 144v, 149r, 167r), John Chrysostom (ff. 95v, 97r, 97v, 98v, 106v), Severian of Gabala (ff. 90r, 96r, 103v), Cyril of Alexandria (ff. 91v, 96r, 97r), Gennadius of Constantinople (ff. 127v, 143r, 144r), Pseudo-Methodius (ff. 161r, 162r), Eusebius of Caesarea (f. 102v), Isidore of Pelusium (f. 125v).
Further information: On 146v below the text of 1 Cor. 13, a later Byzantine hand copied in a tiny script an excerpt of Maximus the Confessor’s Capita de Caritate (= 3, 100; see Edition A. Ceresa-Gastaldo, Massimo confessore. Capitoli sulla carita, 1963, 48-238).
167r Subscriptio in priorem Epistulam ad Corinthios cum stichometria. Πρὸς Κορινθίους αʹ. Ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Φιλίππων διὰ Στεφανᾶ καὶ Φουρτουνάτου καὶ Ἀχαϊκοῦ καὶ Τιμοθέου. Στίχων ωοʹ.
Edition H. Von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt I,1, Berlin 1902, 300.
167v <Euthalius Diaconus>: Argumentum posterioris Pauli ad Corinthios Epistulae. >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Κορινθίους βʹ ἐπιστολῆς< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Μακεδονίας …–… καὶ περὶ τῆς τῶν ψευδαποστόλων ἀλαζόνειας καὶ πονηρίας.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 77-78; PG 118, 905A-908B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249.
168r-228r Epistula Pauli ad Corinthios II. >Πρὸς Κορινθίους βʹ< Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ …–… καὶ ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text, including a hypothesis of Theodoret of Cyrrhus (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 118, 908B-1088C (Τὶ δήποτε δευτέραν τίθησιν ἐπιστολὴν ... - ... ἐν τῇ ἐπιφοιτήσει τοῦ παρακλήτου θεοῦ τοῦ πνεύματος). Apart from Pseudo-Oecumenius, the names of the following authors are also mentioned: Theodoret of Cyrrhus (ff. 174r, 175r, 180r, 184v, 186v, 187v, 193r, 195v, 209r, 225r, 226r), John Chrysostom (ff. 170r, 171v, 183r, 193v, 216r, 220r), Cyril of Alexandria (f. 181r), Gennadius of Constantinople (f. 209r), Pseudo-Methodius (f. 224r).
228r Subscriptio in posteriorem Epistulam ad Corinthios cum stichometria. Πρὸς Κορινθίους βʹ. Ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Φιλίππων διὰ Τίτου καὶ Λουκᾶ. Στίχων φϟʹ.
Edition H. Von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt I,1, Berlin 1902, 300.
228v Blank, with Euthalian hypothesis (lat. “argumentum”) to Galatians.
[Hypothesis by a later Hand:] >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Γαλάτας< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ῥώμης ἑωρακὼς αὐτοὺς ἤδη καὶ διδάξας …–… καὶ οὕτως πάλιν εἰς τὰ ἤθη παραινέσας καὶ διδάξας, τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 78-79; PG 118, 1089A-1089B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249.

Codicological unit: II 229r-387v

Collation: Unit II containing Gal. - Heb. 12:18, which was copied in the 11th century, was probably not produced to circulate as an independent volume, but rather to directly serve as a complement to the 10th century unit I (according to Andrist 2016a, 122). That can be assumed from the absence of quire signatures in unit II, and also from unit II’s overall visual appearance, which was seemingly meant to be consistent with that of unit I.

Page layout: The global text area is of about 22 x 14 cm and the ruling patterns are Leroy 00C2 (ff. 229-275, 277-291, 311-387), Leroy 20C2 (ff. 292-310) and Leroy 10C2 (f. 276). The Pauline text presents about 15 lines with a space between ruled text lines of 7 mm. The text of the catena presents between 48 and 51 lines, among which every other line is not guided by a ruled line. The pages containing hypotheses were ruled with the same pattern as catena pages, but are written in single column.

Writing and hands:

An upright formal mixed minuscule of the 11th century of Perlschrift type (Andrist 2016a, 119, 122). Height of about 2 mm in the Biblical text and of barely 1 mm in the catena. The text hangs from the ruled lines, but also exceptionally rests on them. Biblical text on ff. 292r-310v is significantly thicker and written in a lighter brown than in the rest of this codicological unit.
Approximately same proportion of majuscule letters as in unit I. When placed in 1st position, alpha sometimes starts with a wavy horizontal stroke. Gamma is usually pointed, but also sometimes slightly rounded. Slightly enlarged majuscule letters occasionally appear, notably gamma, beta, iota etc…
Fairly extensive use of ligatures. Fewer abbreviations than in unit I, thanks to the space saved by the very small size of the script, but presence of a few syllabic abbreviations in the Biblical text, and some syllabic and word abbreviations in the catena (notably abbreviation of φησί; s-shaped abbreviation of καί).
Accentuation complete: breathings sometimes angular, sometimes round; circumflexes small; punctuation including upper, middle and lower point. A section of the catena usually ends with an upper point or triple dots forming a triangle. Mute iota adscript.

Decoration:

Rubricated titles of hypotheses and epistles for Col., 1 Thess., 2 Thess., 1 Tim. and 2 Tim. (titles of col., 1 Tim. and 2 Tim. written in top margin); title of Eph. added by later hand in red ink; titles of the epistles Gal., Phil., 1 Tim., 2 Tim., Philem. and Heb. quickly added in black ink by a 13/14th century hand; however, no titles for the hypotheses of Eph., Phil., Philem. and Hebrews.

Apart from the headings, the rare rubrics in unit II also include: some Euthalian kephalaia in Col., 1 Thess., 2 Thess., 1 Tim. and 2 Timothy; final subscriptiones with stichometry for Phil., Col., 1 Thess., 2 Thess. and 1 Timothy; cross-reference numbers in 1 Thess. and 2 Thess. (in other epistles of this codicological unit, cross-reference numbers are incomplete and written in regular brown ink; see “Additions: Notes and marginalia”); a few elements of the pinax of 2 Thess. and 1 Tim. However, no rubrics at all in Gal., Eph., Tit. and Philemon.

Contents:

229r-247r Epistula Pauli ad Galatas. >>[Heading by later hand:] Πρὸς Γαλάτας ἐπιστολῆς Παύλου< Παῦλος ἀπόστολος οὐκ ἀπ' ἀνθρώπων, οὐδὲ δι' ἀνθρώπου …–… Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματος ὑμῶν, ἀδελφοί. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text (Staab 1933, XV; and Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 118, 1092C-1165B (Οὐκ ἀπ' ἀνθρώπων. Ἐυθέως ἀναιρεῖ τὸ εἶναι ἀνθρώπων μαθητής ... - ... Καὶ τῇ ψυχῇ τὴν χάριν ἐπεύχεται γενέσθαι.). Apart from Pseudo-Oecumenius, the names of the following authors are also mentioned: Theodoret of Cyrrhus (ff. 239v, 242v), Severian of Gabala (f. 230r), Gennadius of Constantinople (ff. 239v, 242r).
247r Subscriptio in Epistulam ad Galatas cum stichometria. Πρὸς Γαλάτας ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ῥώμης. Στίχων σϟγʹ. Edition H. Von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt I,1, Berlin 1902, 300.
247v <Euthalius Diaconus> / Theodoretus Cyrensis: Argumenta Epistulae ad Ephesios. [No heading]. [Euthalian hypothesis on l. 1-25:] Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ῥώμης οὔπω μὲν αὐτοὺς ἑωρακὼς, ἀκούσας δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν … κατὰ τῆς διαβολικῆς ἐνεργείας, οὕτως τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν. [Theodoret’s hypothesis on l. 26-end:] >[marg.] Θεοδωρήτου< Ἡ Ἔφεσος μητρόπολις μὲν ἐστι τῆς Ἀσίας …–… γράφει δὲ ἀπὸ Ῥώμης τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἐν δεσμοῖς ὑπάρχων.
Euthalian hypothesis: Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 79-80; PG 118, 1165D-1168B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249. – Theodoret’s hypothesis: PG 118, 1168B.
Further information: n.b. In this manuscript, Theodoret’s hypotheses are sometimes written as the first sections of the Pseudo-Oecumenian catenae (e.g. for 1 Cor. and 2 Cor.), sometimes, like here, as a prefatory material right after the Euthalian hypotheses (e.g. for Eph., Phil. and Col.).
248r-267r Epistula Pauli ad Ephesios. >[Heading by later hand:] Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους< Παῦλος, ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ, τοῖς ἁγίοις τοῖς οὖσιν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ …–… τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 118, 1169A-1256B (Τοῖς ἁγίοις τοῖς οὖσιν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ. Ὅρα πόση ἦν τότε ἀρετὴ ... - ... τὴν ἡμέραν ἐπιδιδοῦσα ὤφειλεν εἶναι). Pseudo-Oecumenius is the only author mentioned in this catena.
267r Subscriptio in Epistulam ad Ephesios cum stichometria. Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ῥώμης διὰ Τυχικοῦ. Στίχων πβʹ.
Edition H. Von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt I,1, Berlin 1902, 300.
267v <Euthalius Diaconus> / Theodoretus Cyrensis: Argumenta Epistulae ad Philippenses. [No title heading]. [Euthalian hypothesis on l. 1-21:] Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ῥώμης ἑωρακὼς αὐτοὺς ἅμα καὶ διδάξας … προτρεψάμενος πάλιν εἰς τὰ ἤθη αὐτοὺς, τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν. [Theodoret’s hypothesis on l. 22-end:] >[above line] Θεοδωρήτου< [Ὁ]ι Φιλιππήσιοι τῆς Μακεδονίας ἦσαν ὑπὸ μητρόπολιν Θεσσαλονίκην …–… πάντα σφόδρα φιλῶν αὐτοὺς φαίνεται.
Euthalian hypothesis: Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 80-81; PG 118, 1256C-1257A; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249. – Theodoret’s hypothesis: PG 118, 1257A-C.
268r-280v Epistula Pauli ad Philippenses. >[Heading by later hand:] Πρὸς Φιλιππησίους< Παῦλος καὶ Τιμόθεος, δοῦλοι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, πᾶσι τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τοῖς οὖσιν ἐν Φιλίπποις …–… Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around text (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 118, 1260A-1325D (Παῦλος καὶ Τιμόθεος. Ἐνταῦθα ὡς πρὸς ὁμοτίμους ... - ... Εὐχῇ παύει τὴν ἐπιστολὴν καὶ νῦν). Pseudo-Oecumenius is the only author mentioned in this catena.
280v Subscriptio in Epistulam ad Philippensens cum stichometria. Πρὸς Φιλιππησίους ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ῥώμης διὰ Ἐπαφροδίτου. Στίχων σηʹ.
Edition H. Von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt I,1, Berlin 1902, 300.
281r <Euthalius Diaconus> / Theodoretus Cyrensis: Argumenta Epistulae ad Colossenses. [Euthalian hypothesis on l. 1-25:] >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Κολοσσαεῖς ἐπιστολῆς< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ῥώμης, οὐχ ἑωρακὼς μὲν αὐτοὺς … καὶ τὴν ἐκ Λαοδικείας καὶ εἰς αὐτοὺς ἀναγνωσθῆναι. [Theodoret’s hypothesis on l. 25-end:] >Θεοδωρήτου< Ἐν πολλαῖς ἐπιστολαῖς δηλοῖ τὴν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν …–… γράφων τὴν ἐπιστολὴν διορθοῦται ὁ Παῦλος.
Euthalian hypothesis: Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 81-82; PG 119, 9A-B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249. – Theodoret’s hypothesis: PG 119, 12A-B.
281v-292r Epistula Pauli ad Colossenses. >Πρὸς Κολασσαεῖς< Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ καὶ Τιμόθεος ὁ ἀδελφός …–… Μνημονεύετέ μου τῶν δεσμῶν. Ἡ χάρις μεθ' ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 119, 13A-56B (Παῦλος ἀποστόλος. Εἰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰμι ἀπόστολος ... - ... τοῦτο γὰρ τῆς χάριτος τὸ συγχωρεῖν δεθῆναι). Αpart from Pseudo-Oecumenius, only Theodoret of Cyrrhus is mentioned (f. 287v).
292v <Euthalius Diaconus>: Argumentum prioris Epistulae ad Thessalonicenses. >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς ἐπιστολῆς< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ἀθηνῶν, ἑορακὼς πρότερον αὐτοὺς καὶ διατρίψας παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς …–… ἀναγνῶναι τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ταύτην πᾶσι τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς· καὶ οὕτως τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 82-83; PG 119, 57A-57B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249.
293r <Euthalius Diaconus>: Elenchus capitulorum prioris Epistulae ad Thessalonicenses. >Ἔκθεσις κεφαλαίων τῆς πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς αʹ ἐπιστολῆς< αʹ Ἔπαινος Θεσσαλονικέων ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀξίοις τῶν ἀποστόλων ἀγῶσιν …–… ζʹ Εὐχὴ περὶ ἁγιασμοῦ πνεύματος καὶ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος. >Κεφάλαια τῆς πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς πρώτης ἐπιστολῆς<
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 53-54; PG 85, 769D-772B.
293v-302v Epistula Pauli ad Thessalonicenses I. >Πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς αʹ< Παῦλος καὶ Σιλουανὸς καὶ Τιμόθεος, τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ Θεσσαλονικέων ἐν θεῷ …–… Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μεθ’ ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 119, 60B-105B (Διὰ τὶ οὔτε ἀπόστολον οὔτε δοῦλον Χριστοῦ ἑαυτὸν ... - ... πάντα τὰ ἀγαθὰ παρομαρτεῖ). Pseudo-Oecumenius is the only author mentioned in this catena.
302v Subscriptio in priorem Epistulam ad Thessalonicenses cum stichometria. Πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς αʹ ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ἀθηνῶν. Στίχων σʹ.
Edition H. Von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt I,1, Berlin 1902, 300.
303r <Euthalius Diaconus>: Argumentum posterioris Epistulae ad Thessalonicenses. >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς βʹ ἐπιστολῆς< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ῥώμης· ἡ δὲ πρόφασις τῆς ἐπιστολῆς αὕτη …–… ὅπερ σημεῖον εἶναι πάσης ἐπιστολῆς δεδήλωκεν.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 83-84; PG 119, 105C-108A; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249.
303v <Euthalius Diaconus>: Elenchus capitulorum posterioris epistulae ad Thessalonicenses. >Ἕκθεσις κεφαλαίων καθολικῶν τῆς πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς βʹ ἐπιστολῆς, ἐχόντων τινῶν καὶ μερικὰς ὑποδιαιρέσεις< αʹ Εὐχαριστία ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν Θεσσαλονικέων πίστεως …–… ϛʹ Εὐχὴ περὶ εἰρήνης παρὰ θεοῦ.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 54; PG 85, 773A-B.
304r-309v Epistula Pauli ad Thessalonicenses II. >Πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς βʹ< Παῦλος καὶ Σιλουανὸς καὶ Τιμόθεος τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ Θεσσαλονικέων ἐν θεῷ …–… Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 119, 109A-133A (Οὕτως καὶ ἐν τῇ αʹ ἐπιστολῇ ἤρξατο ... - ... ἔθος αὐτῷ εὐχὴ κατέλυσε τὴν ἐπιστολήν). Apart from Pseudo-Oecumenius, only Theodoret of Cyrrhus is mentioned (f. 305v).
310r <Euthalius Diaconus>: Argumentum prioris Epistulae ad Timotheum. >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Τιμόθεον αʹ ἐπιστολῆς< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Μακεδονίας. Ἡ δὲ πρόφασις τῆς ἐπιστολῆς αὕτη …–… ἐφ' αἷς καί τινες καυχώμενοι παρέβησαν τὴν πίστιν. Οὔτως τελεῖοι τὴν ἐπιστολήν.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 86-87; PG 119, 133B-136D; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249.
310v Elenchus capitulorum prioris Epistulae ad Timotheum. >[Heading by later hand:] Πρὸς Τιμόθεον πρώτη ἐπιστολή< Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, κατ' ἐπιταγὴν θεοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν …–… ἥν τινες ἐπαγγελλόμενοι περὶ τὴν πίστιν ἠστόχησαν. Ἡ χάρις μετὰ σοῦ. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text, including a hypothesis of Theodoret of Cyrrhus (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 119, 136A-196C (Τὶ δήποτε καὶ ἄλλους ἔχων μαθητὰς ... - ... Καὶ δῆλον ἐξ ὧν περὶ τὴν πίστιν ἐναυάγησαν). Pseudo-Oecumenius is the only author mentioned in this catena.
326r <Euthalius Diaconus>: Argumentum posterioris Epistulae ad Timotheum. >Ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Τιμόθεον βʹ ἐπιστολῆς< Ταύτην ἐπιστέλλει πάλιν ἀπὸ Ῥώμης. Ἡ δὲ πρόφασις τῆς ἐπιστολῆς αὕτη …–… ὡς πολλὰ κακὰ ἐνδειξάμενον αὐτῷ. Καὶ οὕτω τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν.
Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 87-88; PG 119, 196D-197B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249.
326v-337v Epistula Pauli ad Timotheum II. >>[Heading by later hand:] Πρὸς Τιμόθεον βʹ< Παῦλος, ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ, κατ' ἐπαγγελίαν ζωῆς τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ …–… Ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματός σου. Ἡ χάρις μεθ' ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text, including a hypothesis of Theodoret of Cyrrhus (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 119, 197B-240C (Τὶ δή ποτε δευτέραν γράφει πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπιστολήν ... - ... ἢ ὥστε ἀεὶ εὐχαρίστουν εἶναι ἢ ὥστε ἀεὶ χάρισμα ἔχειν πνευματικόν). Apart from Pseudo-Oecumenius, only Theodoret of Cyrrhus is mentioned (ff. 326v, 330v, 336v).
338r <Euthalius Diaconus> / Theodoretus Cyrensis: Argumenta Epistulae ad Titum. [No title heading]. [Euthalian hypothesis on l. 1-26:] [Τ]αύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Νικοπόλεως, ἐκεῖ γὰρ παρεχείμαζεν … Καὶ οὕτως τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν. [Theodoret’s hypothesis on l. 26-end:] >Θεοδωρίτου< Ὁ Τίτος θαυμάσιός τις ἦν μαθητὴς τοῦ Παύλου …–… πρώτη δὲ αὕτη τῆς πρὸς Τιμόθεον μᾶλλον ἐστίν.
Euthalian hypothesis: Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 88-89; PG 119, 241A-241B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249. – Theodoret’s hypothesis: PG 119, 241C.
338v-344r Epistula Pauli ad Titum. >Πρὸς Τίτον ἐπιστολῆς Παύλου< Παῦλος, δοῦλος θεοῦ, ἀπόστολος δὲ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, κατὰ πίστιν ἐκλεκτῶν θεοῦ …–… Ἡ χάρις μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 119, 244B-261B (Παῦλος δοῦλος θεοῦ. Ἀδιαφόρως ταῦτα τιθήσι ... - ... οἷον διὰ τῆς πίστεως). No author name mentioned in this catena.
344v <Euthalius Diaconus> / Theodoretus Cyrensis: Argumenta Epistulae ad Philemonem cum notitia de martyrio Onesimi. [No title heading]. [Euthalian hypothesis on l. 1-9:] [Τ]αύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ῥώμης. Ἡ δὲ πρόφασις τῆς ἐπιστολῆς αὕτη· Ὀνήσιμος οἰκέτης Φιλήμονος ἔφυγεν … ἐὰν ἔλθῃ, εὕρῃ που μείνῃ. Καὶ οὕτως τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν. [Note on the martyrdom of Onesimus on l. 9-12:] Ἰστέον δὲ ὅτι οὗτος ὁ Ὀνήσιμος καὶ μαρτυρίου ἠξιώθη … ψῆφον ὑπομείνας τοῦ μαρτυρίου. [Theodoret’s hypothesis on l. 13-end:] >Θεοδωρήτου< Ὁ φιλήμων θαυμάσιός τις ἦν ἀνὴρ …–… οὐκ ἔδει καταριθμεῖσθαι τοῖς λοιπαῖς.
Euthalian hypothesis: Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 89-90; PG 119, 261C; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249. – Note on the martyrdom of Onesimus: Edition PG 119, 261C. – Theodoret’s hypothesis: Edition PG 119, 264A-B.
345r-347r Epistula Pauli ad Philemonem. >[Heading by later hand:] Πρὸς Φιλήμονα ἐπιστολῆς Παύλου< Παῦλος δέσμιος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ, καὶ Τιμόθεος ὁ ἀδελφός, Φιλήμονι τῷ ἀγαπητῷ …–… Ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματος ὑμῶν. Ἀμήν.
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 119, 264C-272C (Παῦλος δέσμιος Χριστοῦ. Εὐθέως ἐκ προοιμίων παιδεύει ... - ... σὺν ἐμοὶ παρακαλοῦσιν σε). No author name mentioned in this catena.
347r-348r <Euthalius Diaconus> / Theodoretus Cyrensis: Argumenta Epistulae ad Hebraeos. [No title heading]. [Euthalian hypothesis on f. 347v l. 1-26:] [Τ]αύτην ἐπιστέλλει ἀπὸ Ἰταλίας. Ἡ δὲ πρόφασις τῆς ἐπιστολῆς αὕτη … καὶ πείσας τιμᾶν τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους, τελειοῖ τὴν ἐπιστολήν. [Anonymous hypothesis on ff. 347v l. 26 - 348r l. 15:] >Ὑπόθεσις ἕτερα< Ἡ πρὸς Ἑβραίους ἐπιστολὴ δοκεῖ μὲν οὐκ εἶναι Παύλου … ὡς καὶ ἡ ἀνάγνωσις αὐτὴ προϊοῦσα διδάσκει. …–… [Theodoret’s hypothesis on f. 348r l. 16-end:] >Θεοδωρήτου< Τίνος ἕνεκεν ἐθνῶν ἀπόστολος ὑπάρχων ἐπιστέλλει καὶ τοῖς Ἑβραίοις.
Euthalian hypothesis: Edition Blomkvist, op. cit., 85-86; PG 119, 272D-273B; Clavis Patrum Graecorum II 2249. – Anonymous hypothesis: Edition PG 119, 273B-276A. – Theodoret’s hypothesis: Edition PG 119, 276A-C.
348v-387v Epistula Pauli ad Hebraeos. >[Heading by later hand:] Πρὸς Ἑβραίους ἐπιστολῆς Παύλου< Πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως πάλαι ὁ θεὸς λαλήσας …–… Οὐ γὰρ προσεληλύθατε ψηλαφωμένῳ καὶ κεκαυμένῳ πυρὶ // [abruptly stopping in the middle of Heb. 12:18 because of the loss of the last leaves].
Catena: Normal type of Pseudo-Oecumenian catena around the text, stopping almost at the end of the commentary on 18th kephalaion (Staab 1933, XV; Staab, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome 1926, 100): Edition PG 119, 280A-433B ([Π]ολυμερῶς. Διαφόρως καὶ ποικίλως ἐλάλησεν ... - ... ὁρᾷς ὅτι μαρτύρων αὐτοῖς τὸ πεπτωκέναι). Apart from Pseudo-Oecumenius, the names of Theodoret of Cyrrhus (f. 360r) and Gennadius of Constantinople (f. 360v) are also mentioned.