The Byzantic Scriptorium

Anno Mundi MMMMMMMDXXXIV · i non. Mai. Br. Photios a patristic florilegium, in preparation

A Reading Corrected, with Apologies (f. ccxx)

Now I have written it all; for Christ's sake give me a drink.

Paleographic noteA practiced hand, examined under low candlelight; the ductus is regular.

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catchword calami requies brevis

Anno Mundi MMMMMMMDXXXIV · vii kal. Mai. Br. Eustathios the Book of Ceremonies of Constantine VII

Toward the Recovery of an Erased Gloss

This is no defect; the cat pissed on top.

Paleographic noteA cold-stiffened hand, examined under low candlelight; the ductus is regular.

lapishomileticinterlinearmanuscript-state

catchword manus altera prosequitur

Anno Mundi MMMMMMMDXXXIV · xiv kal. Mai. Br. Cyril Homilies of John Chrysostom on Matthew

Notes Toward an Edition of Homilies of John Chrysostom on Matthew: f. cv r

My arm aches; the work does not.

Paleographic noteAn apparent gloss in a second hand has been noted but not yet dated.

hymnographicsecond-handmacedonian

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Anno Mundi MMMMMMMDXXXIV · xxi non. Mai. Br. Nikephoros a binding for the Triodion, in progress

Three Folios of a binding for the Triodion, in progress, with Marginal Glosses

Now I have written it all; for Christ's sake give me a drink.

Paleographic noteThree of the four readings tried agree; the fourth is, by chapter consensus, dropped.

homileticof-Pangurflorilegic

catchword calami requies brevis

Anno Mundi MMMMMMMDXXXIV · xxviii id. Mai. Br. Symeon the corrected exemplar of John Climacus

On a Dropped Line at f. xliii r

My arm aches; the work does not.

Paleographic noteThree of the four readings tried agree; the fourth is, by chapter consensus, dropped.

liturgicallapisflorilegichomiletic

catchword incipit lectio sequens

Anno Mundi MMMMMMMDXXXIV · v id. Apr. Br. Cyril Maximus the Confessor, Mystagogia

Errata and Re-attribution in Maximus the Confessor, Mystagogia

The third pen has broken today.

Paleographic noteAn apparent gloss in a second hand has been noted but not yet dated.

cinnabarsecond-handcorrector

catchword manus altera prosequitur