Reuchlin, Johannes (1455-1522)
Famous for the two portraits of Gregory of Nazianzus and Elias of Crete, as well as for a unique cycle of illustrations in honor of Gregory (of which 5 have been lost), this codex is also noteworthy for its content (19 commentaries by Elias of Crete, still unpublished in Greek) and for the story of its creation. The commentaries were copied around the end of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th century, a project that did not provide for miniatures on the frontispiece. These were added a short time later, together with a prologue. The codex still retains the binding that was created in Constantinople between 1435 and 1437 during a restoration for its new owner, the Dominican John of Ragusa, who brought the codex to Basel in 1437.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Reuchlin, Johannes (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Billy, Jacques de (Translator) | Elias, Cretensis (Author) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Leunclavius, Johannes (Annotator) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
In this twelfth-century Greek manuscript of the New Testament, divided in two parts (without the Apocalypse), the Epistles and Acts were surprisingly placed before the Gospels. Magnificently illuminated, this codex has initials that represent the epistolographers of the New Testament; one miniature depicts John the Evangelist and Christ's descent into Hell (f. 265v). In the fifteenth-century, John of Ragusa, a delegate from the Council of Basel, bought the codex in Constantinople; he then bequeathed it on his death to the Dominicans of Basel. The codex passed into the hands of Johannes Reuchlin, as well as those of Erasmus for his first edition of the Greek New Testament (1516).
Online Since: 09/26/2024
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- Bernoulli, Carl Christoph (Librarian) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Dionysius Areopagita (Author) | Erasmus, Desiderius (Annotator) | Euthalius, Diaconus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hilarius, Papa (Author) | Johannes, de Ragusa (Former possessor) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Lupus, de Olmedo (Author) | Mutianus, Scholasticus (Author) | Pelagius I., Papst (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Scribe) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Annotator) | Schweblin, Johann Ulrich (Librarian) Found in: Standard description