Encomium, etc

Description

Title: Encomium, etc
Creator: Jacobus Manas
Published / Created: 1720, 1721, 1729.
Publication Place: Constantinople
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (watermarks: partial, unidentified) of Jacobus Manas, Encomium of Joannes Constantinus Bassarabas. With Jacobus Manas, Epigram on Joannes Constantinus Bassarabas
Description: Jacobus Manas and the Bassarabas family are mentioned by S. Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity (Cambridge, 1968) pp. 360-84.
In Greek.
Script: Written by two copyists who date their work: 1720, 1721, 1729. Scribe 1 (also Scribe 1 in Beinecke MSS 294, 297, and 300, etc.) wrote ff. iv-4v and gives his name as Constantine Raphael Byzantinus; he dates his work on f. 2v (1721) and on f. 4v (1729). Scribe 2 (ff. 5r-42r) dates his section on f. 5r (1720).
Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown goatskin gold-stamped with portrait heads in a foliage border and flowers in central panel. Title on spine reads Demetrius Moschopo[li]tes (author of the life of Jacobus Manas). A green tie.
Provenance: Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9233). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
Extent: ff. 46 : 149 x 109 (ff. 1-4: 119 x 72; ff. 5-42: 116 x 65) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Jacobus Manas.
Subject (Topic): Greek poetry, Modern
Laudatory poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jacobus Manas
Greek poetry, Modern > 1453-1800
Laudatory poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Jacobus Manas, Encomium, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.