Passages on asceticism
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Description
- Title
- Passages on asceticism
- Creator
- Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700
- Contributor
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Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
Mark, the Hermit, -approximately 430.
Maximus, Confessor, Saint, approximately 580-662.
Nilus, of Ancyra, Saint, -approximately 430.
Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus. - Published / Created
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Publication Place
- Byzantium
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper (polished, except for ff. 129-136) of Passages on Asceticism by various authors, including John Chrysostom, Basil, Isidore, Theodoretus, Maximus, Nilus. With other theological texts, especially concerning monasticism
- Description
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In Greek.
Unidentified watermarks: anchor in circle.
Script: Written by a single scribe who signed himself "Callistus the holy deacon".
Simple headpieces on ff. 1r, 34r, 58r, 60v, 74r. Initials and headings, in red, for each new passage. Crudely drawn angel hovers over top of initial, f. 34r; birds perch on others. Folios 129-136 are not rubricated.
Binding: Date? Pastedowns sewn with bookblock. Three chain-stitched supports. Endbands attached to the square-edged, flush wooden boards. Loops of thread around the edges of the quires at head and tail. The spine is square and lined all along with vellum extending onto the inside of the boards and there seem to be lining strips extending on the outside of the boards also. Two pin holes with stubs of iron pins in them in the edges of the upper board and two holes for each strap on the lower. Rebacked. Covered with 13th-century Greek manuscript fragment containing musical notation, with front flyleaf from the same manuscript, and back flyleaf from a 12th century Greek liturgical text (all badly rubbed). - Provenance
- Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 15867). Purchased from Laurence Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
- Extent
- ff. i + 170 + i : 154 x 103 (119 x 77) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Greek, Modern (1453- )
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 238
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Lebanon 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700.
- Subject (Topic)
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Asceticism
Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monastic and religious life
Theology - Subjects
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Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700
Asceticism
Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monastic and religious life
Theology > Early works to 1800
Lebanon > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Anastasius of Sinai, et al., Passages on Asceticism. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9793157
- Object ID (OID)
- 11706792
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