Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of Unidentified Geography, translated into modern Greek from Latin by Demetrius Notaras. With Dedication to Chrysanthus Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1707-33).
Description:
In Greek., Script: The text was written by two scribes in similar styles of minuscule. Scribe 1 (pp. 1-238) is the same scribe (Constantine Raphael Byzantinus) as that designated as Scribe 1 in Beinecke MSS 294, 295 and 300, etc.; Scribe 2 copied pp. 239-586. A third person supplied the Table of Contents at the beginning of the codex (pp. i-xv)., No ornamentation or rubrication., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Near Eastern. Brown goatskin with a deeply impressed medallion containing a crown, sword, sceptre, eagle, bull and I. K., N. B., originally gilt. Title gold-tooled. Spattered edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, ca. 1663-1731.