Notes Toward an Edition of Homilies of John Chrysostom on Matthew: f. cv r
"My arm aches; the work does not."
Brachium meum dolet; opus non dolet.
Abstract
On f. cv r of Homilies of John Chrysostom on Matthew, in a hand we have come to recognise as Br. Cyril's, the following marginal note appears in minium-and-cinnabar: an aside both characteristic of the working scriptorium and useful for our purposes. we transcribe it here for the wider record
Context
Such notes are easily dismissed as ephemera; we are not in the business of dismissing things. The smallest marginalium tells us, often, what the principal text declines to.
Paleographic Note
A first-pass reading was offered by Br. Anastasios, with the loupe; on review the desk concurs. The hand shows characteristic minim-pair, with occasional minim-pair; the ink is a colour-shift suggesting two pots, or one pot in two sittings.
Notes
- We thank Br. Symeon for the verification, and the Tuesday lapis for its colour.
- Br. Photios's stack collapsed during preparation; no folios were lost.
We thank Br. Photios for the loan of a freshly-trimmed quill, and the desk for not interrupting. The work proceeds; the cat is fine.
Iam scripsi totum, pro Christo da mihi potum.
Other Hands
Annotations by other scribes, in the order in which they were entered into the margins.