MSS. Roe

Roe Manuscripts

Introduction

Sir Thomas Roe was born in 1580 or 1581, and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1593, but took no degree. From 1614 to 1618 he was Ambassador to Jehângîr, the Mogul emperor of Hindustan, and from 1621 to 1628 to the Turkish Court. In 1628 he presented to the Library a collection of manuscripts brought from the East, chiefly Greek, which was received in 1629. In 1640 Roe was elected a burgess of the University in Parliament, and died in 1644.

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 1
Summary Catalogue no.	247
Summary of contents	Four Gospels \|\| Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita (fragments used as endleaves).
Language	Greek \|\| Latin
Origin	Byzantine, Constantinople (?) \|\| ?
Date	12th century, second quarter \|\| 12th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Canon tables. Illuminated initials. Ornamental strips. (Hutter iii. 86)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 10
Quarto image	Cols. 457-458

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 2
Summary Catalogue no.	248
Summary of contents	Manuel Malaxus, Ecloga uariorum canonum.
Language	Modern Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	16th century
Material	paper


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 10
Quarto image	Col. 458
Quarto image	Col. 459

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 3
Summary Catalogue no.	249
Summary of contents	Theodorus Studita, Hymni graduales with commentary by Nicephorus Callistus. Nicephorus Callistus, Commentary on Cosmas' hymn to Mary.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	14th century, beginning
Material	parchment


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 10
Quarto image	Col. 459

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 4
Summary Catalogue no.	250
Composite	three parts
Summary of contents	Commentaries and other materials relating to Psalms. \|\| Commentary on Psalms ii-xviii. \|\| Catena on Psalms xvii. 49-end. Canticles, with commentary.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	? \|\| 14th century \|\| 10th century, end
Material	parchment


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 10
Quarto image	Col. 460
Quarto image	Col. 461

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 6
Summary Catalogue no.	252
Summary of contents	John Chrysostom, Easter sermon. Gregory of Nazianzus, Homilies.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine, Nikaia (?)
Date	13th century, first quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Miniatures. Ornamental strips. Historiated, zoomorphic and floral initials. (Hutter i. 53)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 10
Quarto image	Col. 462
Manuscript image	fol. 38r St. Basil on his bier, with mourners, probably including St. Gregory.


Bibliography
1999

Paul Jonathan Fedwick, Bibliotheca Basiliana Universalis: a study of the manuscript tradition, translations and editions of the works of Basil of Caesarea. IV, Testimonia, liturgical and canonical compositions, florilegia, catenae, iconography: IV, 2, Manuscripts -- Libraries (Corpus Christianorum), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1999, p. 921 (siglum 'k5464')

1991

R. S. Nelson & J. L. Bona, 'Relative size and comparative value in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts: some quantitative perspectives', in Paleografia e codicologia greca: Atti del II Colloquio internazionale (Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983), eds. Dieter Harlfinger & Giancarlo Prato, 2 vols. (= Biblioteca di Scrittura e Civiltà, 3), Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1991, Tom. I, pp. 339-353; Tom. II, pp. 185-190: at Tom. I, p. 351

1990

Kurt Weitzmann & George Galavaris, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The illuminated Greek manuscripts, vol. I: From the ninth to the twelfth century, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 32 n. 3

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 7
Summary Catalogue no.	253
Summary of contents	Euthymius Zigabenus, Commentary on the Psalter; Commentary on canticles.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	1279
Material	parchment


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 10
Quarto image	Col. 463

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 9
Summary Catalogue no.	255
Summary of contents	Lives of Emperor Constantine and St. Helena.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	15th century
Material	paper


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 10
Quarto image	Col. 464


Bibliography
1937

Albert Ehrhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche, 3 vols. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 50-52), Leipzig-Berlin 1937-1952 (reprinted Leipzig 1965), III 955 [Information taken from Lidia Perria, I manoscritti citati da Albert Ehrhard (Testi e Studi Bizantino-Neoellenici, 4), Rome 1979, pp. 103-6]

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 10
Summary Catalogue no.	256
Summary of contents	Isaac Syrus, ascetic writings.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine, Constantinople
Date	c. 1320
Material	paper

Decoration
Ornamental headpiece. Ornamental strips and illuminated initials. (Hutter iii. 148)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 464
Quarto image	Col. 465


Bibliography
1989

Nino Ultimo Gulmini, I manoscritti miniati della Biblioteca Nazionale di Torino, vol. II, I manoscritti greci, Turin: Arti Grafiche Molfese, 1989, p. 82 no. 90

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 12
Summary Catalogue no.	258
Summary of contents	Laonicus Chalcocondylas, De rebus Turcicis.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	15th century, end
Material	paper


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 465


Bibliography
1997

Repertorium de griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, Teil 3, Handschriften aus Bibliotheken Roms mit dem Vatikan, by Ernst Gamillscheg, with Dieter Harlfinger & Paolo Eleuteri, pts. A-C (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik, Band III / 3 A-C), Vienna 1997, cited at pt. A no. 278

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 13
Summary Catalogue no.	259
Summary of contents	Commentaries on the Psalter by John Chrysostom and Hesychios of Jerusalem.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine, Galesion near Ephesus
Date	1284/1285
Material	parchment

Decoration
Ornamental strips and decorated initials. (Hutter iii. 117)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Cols. 465-466


Bibliography
1991

Ernst Gamillscheg, 'Handschriften aus Kleinasien (9.-12. Jahrhundert): Versuch einer paläographischen Charakterisierung', in Scritture, libri e testi nelle aree provinciali di Bisanzio: Atti del seminario di Erice (18-25 settembre 1988) (eds. Guglielmo Cavallo, Giuseppe de Gregorio & Marilena Maniaci), 2 vols. (= Biblioteca del "Centro per il collegamento degli studi medievali e umanistici nell' Università di Perugia", 5), Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull' alto medioevo, 1991, vol. I, pp. 181-201 and 16 plates, at p. 200

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 14
Summary Catalogue no.	260
Summary of contents	Medical treatises.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	14th century, end and 15th century
Material	paper


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 466
Quarto image	Col. 467

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 15
Summary Catalogue no.	261
Summary of contents	Medical treatises. Etc.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	15th century
Material	paper


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 468
Quarto image	Col. 469

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 16
Summary Catalogue no.	262
Summary of contents	Catena on St. Paul's Epistles.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	10th century, end (?)
Material	parchment


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Cols. 469-470


Bibliography
1999

Paul Jonathan Fedwick, Bibliotheca Basiliana Universalis: a study of the manuscript tradition, translations and editions of the works of Basil of Caesarea. IV, Testimonia, liturgical and canonical compositions, florilegia, catenae, iconography: IV, 2, Manuscripts -- Libraries (Corpus Christianorum), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1999, p. 922 (siglum 'k5466')

1991

K. Aland, ed., Text und Textwerk der griechischen Handscriften der Neuen Testaments, II. Die Paulinischen Briefe, 4 vols. (= Arbeiten zur Neutestamentlichen Textforschung, 16-19), Berlin & New York 1991, Bd. 1, p. 21 (list of MSS.), siglum '1908'

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 17
Summary Catalogue no.	263
Summary of contents	Anastasius Sinaita, Quaestiones et responsiones. Theological treatises. Sermons.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	12th century, beginning
Material	parchment


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 470
Quarto image	Col. 471

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 18a, MS. Roe 18b
Summary Catalogue no.	264a, 264b
Summary of contents	Scientific, legal and theological texts. Poems by Manuel Phile, Constantinus Manasses, Theodorus Prodromus and other authors.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	1349
Material	paper


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Cols. 471-472
Quarto image	Cols. 473-474
Quarto image	Cols. 475-476
Quarto image	Cols. 477-478
Quarto image	Col. 479


Bibliography
1999

Paul Jonathan Fedwick, Bibliotheca Basiliana Universalis: a study of the manuscript tradition, translations and editions of the works of Basil of Caesarea. IV, Testimonia, liturgical and canonical compositions, florilegia, catenae, iconography: IV, 2, Manuscripts -- Libraries (Corpus Christianorum), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1999, p. 922 (siglum 'k5467')

1998

Giorgio di Pisidia, Esamerone, ed. F. Gonnelli, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 1998, p. 23 (siglum 'Bt')

1994

Bjarne Schartau, Codices graeci Haunienses: Ein deskriptiver Katalog des griechischen Handschriftenbestandes der Königlichen Bibliothek Kopenhage (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies, 9), Copenhagen: The Royal Library, and Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994, p. 349, 372-3 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.

Benoît Gain, Traductions latines de Pères grecs: la collection du manuscrit Laurentianus San Marco 584: Edition des lettres de Basile de Césarée (Publications Universitaires Européennes, Série XV, Philologie et littérature classiques, 64), Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, 1994 [from a Paris Univ. Diss., 1989], p. 464

1993

Paul Jonathan Fedwick, Bibliotheca Basiliana Vniversalis: a study of the manuscript tradition of the works of Basil of Caesarea, vol. I, The letters (Corpus Christianorum), Turnhout: Brepols, 1993, pp. 88-91, 699 n. 23 (siglum Em5)

1991

H. Hunger, 'Die byzantinische Minuskel des 14. Jahrhunderts zwischen Tradition und Neuerung', in Paleografia e codicologia greca: Atti del II Colloquio internazionale (Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983), eds. Dieter Harlfinger & Giancarlo Prato, 2 vols. (= Biblioteca di Scrittura e Civiltà, 3), Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1991, Tom. I, pp. 151-161; Tom. II, pp. 97-106: at Tom. I, p. 161 (=Turyn, Gr. Brit. 78)

H. Hunger, 'Die byzantinische Minuskel des 14. Jahrhunderts zwischen Tradition und Neuerung', in Paleografia e codicologia greca: Atti del II Colloquio internazionale (Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983), eds. Dieter Harlfinger & Giancarlo Prato, 2 vols. (= Biblioteca di Scrittura e Civiltà, 3), Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1991, Tom. I, pp. 151-161; Tom. II, pp. 97-106: at Tom. I, p. 161 (= Rep. 232); Tom. II, p. 106 (Hunger tav. 8)

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 19
Summary Catalogue no.	265
Summary of contents	John Chrysostom, Commentary on Psalms iv-xii, xli-l; De uirginitate.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	15th century
Material	paper


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 479

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 20
Summary Catalogue no.	266
Summary of contents	Epistolae synodales Synodi Basileensis.
Language	Latin
Origin	Byzantine
Date	15th century
Material	parchment


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 479

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 21
Summary Catalogue no.	267
Summary of contents	Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica (pars secunda secundae partis); Summa contra gentiles (III. 1-47).
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	15th century
Material	paper


Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 480

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 22
Summary Catalogue no.	268
Summary of contents	Nicetas Choniates, Thesaurus orthodoxae fidei.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine, Constantinople
Date	1286
Material	parchment

Decoration
Ornamental strips and decorated initials. (Hutter iii. 116)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 480
Quarto image	Cols. 481-482


Bibliography
2000

Michel Cacouros, 'Le Laur. 85,1 témoin de l'activité conjointe d'un groupe de copistes travaillant dans la second moitié du XIII ^e siècle', in I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito: Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca (Cremona, 4-10 ottobre 1998), ed. Giancarlo Prato, 2 vols. + plates (Papyrologica Florentina, 31), Florence: Edizioni Gonnelli, 2000, pp. 295-310, at p. 304

1999

The British Library, Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, vol. 1, London: The British Library, 1999, p. 254 Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.

1996

Alexander Alexakis, Codex Parisinus Graecus 1115 and its archetype (Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 34), Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996, p. 45

Annaclara Cataldi Palau, Catalogo dei manoscritti greci della Biblioteca Franzoniana (Genova) (Urbani 21 - 40) (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Bollettino dei Classici, Suppl. n. 17), [Rome] 1996, p. 113 (on Urbani 32, fols. 166v-177), p. 119 (on Urbani 32, fols. 203-209v) Bodleian shelfmark: BDH = R. Cat.

1973

Cited in Studi Medievali, 3rd Series, vol. XIV, 2 ( 1973), pp. 758 n., 749 n. [Reference taken from Studi Medievali, 3rd Ser., Indici, Anni I-XX: 1960-1979 (ed. G. Zanella), Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 1981, pp. 272-6] [ fols. 480r, 481v] Bodleian shelfmark: = Per. 3962 d. 224

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 23
Summary Catalogue no.	269
Summary of contents	Georgios of Alexandria, Vita S. Ioannis Chrysostomi. Miracles of SS. Gurias, Samonas and Abibus. Kosmas Vestitor, Oratio de translatione S. Ioannis Chrysostomi.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	11th century, first third
Material	parchment

Decoration
Ornamental strips and decorated initials. (Hutter iii. 27)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 483


Bibliography
1937

Albert Ehrhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche, 3 vols. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 50-52), Leipzig-Berlin 1937-1952 (reprinted Leipzig 1965), III 742 [Information taken from Lidia Perria, I manoscritti citati da Albert Ehrhard (Testi e Studi Bizantino-Neoellenici, 4), Rome 1979, pp. 103-6]

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 24
Summary Catalogue no.	270
Summary of contents	John Chrysostom, Homilies.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine, Constantinople
Date	10th century, end
Material	parchment

Decoration
Ornamental strips and decorated initials at the beginnings of homilies. (Hutter iii. 26)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Cols. 483-484


Bibliography
1996

Irmgard Hutter, 'Decorative systems in Byzantine manuscripts, and the scribe as artist: evidence from manuscripts in Oxford', Word & Image, Vol. 12 No. 1 (Jan.-March 1996), pp. 4-22, with 30 figs., at p. 21 n. 72 SCWMSS archive: = REFS. CIII.11

1991

S. Dufrenne, 'Rubricateurs et ornemanistes dans les manuscrits écrits en minuscules bouletées', in Paleografia e codicologia greca: Atti del II Colloquio internazionale (Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983), eds. Dieter Harlfinger & Giancarlo Prato, 2 vols. (= Biblioteca di Scrittura e Civiltà, 3), Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1991, Tom. I, pp. 305-19; Tom. II, pp. 167-174: at Tom. I, p. 312 n. 28

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 25
Summary Catalogue no.	271
Summary of contents	Cyril of Jerusalem, Catecheses.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	11th century, second third
Material	parchment

Decoration
Ornamental borders and decorated initials. (Hutter iii. 28)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 484

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 27
Summary Catalogue no.	273
Summary of contents	John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine
Date	10th century, end - 11th century, beginning
Material	parchment

Decoration
Ornamental strips and decorated initials at the beginnings of homilies. (Hutter iii. 21)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 485
Manuscript image	fol. 15r Text page.


Bibliography
1989

Nino Ultimo Gulmini, I manoscritti miniati della Biblioteca Nazionale di Torino, vol. II, I manoscritti greci, Turin: Arti Grafiche Molfese, 1989, p. 29 no. 11

1988

Ralph Cleminson, A union catalogue of Cyrillic manuscripts in British and Irish collections (General Editors Veronica Du Feu & W. F. Ryan), London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1988, pp. 284-5 no. 184

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 28
Summary Catalogue no.	274
Summary of contents	Liturgical homiliary.
Language	Greek
Origin	Asia Minor
Date	11th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Ornamental borders, strips and decorated initials. (Hutter i. 20)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Cols. 485-486
Quarto image	Cols. 487-488


Bibliography
1996

Alexander Alexakis, Codex Parisinus Graecus 1115 and its archetype (Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 34), Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996, p. 110 n. 59

1937

Albert Ehrhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche, 3 vols. (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 50-52), Leipzig-Berlin 1937-1952 (reprinted Leipzig 1965), II 263-267 [Information taken from Lidia Perria, I manoscritti citati da Albert Ehrhard (Testi e Studi Bizantino-Neoellenici, 4), Rome 1979, pp. 103-6]

Shelfmark	MS. Roe 29
Summary Catalogue no.	275
Summary of contents	Athanasius of Alexandria, works.
Language	Greek
Origin	Byzantine, Constantinople
Date	1410
Material	paper

Decoration
Ornamental strips and decorated initials at the beginnings of texts. (Hutter iii. 174)



Images
Catalogue image	Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 11
Quarto image	Col. 488
Quarto image	Cols. 489-490

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