Scutum orthodoxiae, etc

Description

Title: Scutum orthodoxiae, etc
Creator: Dositheos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1641-1707
Published / Created: [between 1600 and 1700]
Publication Place: Byzantium
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (usually thin and white; watermarks vary) of texts on the faith of the Orthodox Church, specifically as it compares to Protestant doctrine. Includes prayers, sermons, commentaries, creeds, poems and glossaries
Description: In Greek.
Script: Composed of 22 parts, written by different hands, mostly in Greek minuscule. The individual parts were perhaps collected and organized by Constantine Raphael Byzantinus, 18th century, whose notes are scattered throughout.
Provenance: Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 7231). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust (MS 34) in 1957.
Extent: ff. i + 175 + ii : 310 x 210 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

Genre: Commentaries
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Dositheos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1641-1707.
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic): Creeds
Devotional literature
Greek poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sermons, Greek
Subjects: Dositheos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1641-1707
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados
Bible > Commentaries
Creeds
Devotional literature
Greek poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sermons, Greek
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Dositheus, Scutum Orthodoxiae, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.