München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cod. gr. 525

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Manuscript Identification
Reference Number GreekSyntipas3
Location München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Siglum/Shelfmark Monac. gr. 525 [diktyon 44974]
Page/Folio range 51r-65v
Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative Βίβλος Συντίπα τοῦ φιλοσόφου (Book of Syntipas the philosopher)
Incipit or textual title [...] λέγει οὖν πρὸς τὴν ὁμόζυγον· τί ἐστι τοῦτο ὅπερ νῦν τεθέαμαι;
Version (siglum) Syntipas
Language Group within Version Greek Version
Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version Andreopoulos Syntipas
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition
Languages
Language of text Byzantine
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text
Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0010/bsb00108709/images/index.html
Modern Editions Jernstedt–Nikitin, Liber Syntipae
Note

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Authorship and Production
Scribe Ἀνδρέας Λιβαδηνός (Andreas Livadenos)
Author Μιχαὴλ Ἀνδρεόπωλος (Michael Andreopolos)
Place of Manuscript Production Trebizond
Date of Manuscript Production mid 14th c.
Source of Date of Manuscript Production
Physical Description
Material Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript 190
Height 215
Width 150
Script style/form
Prose or verse Prose
Illustrations No
Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript Life of Aesop; Fables of Aesop; Fables of Syntipas 29r–33v, letter of Diokles the philosopher to Antigonos, king of Persia; Stephanites and Ichnelates; Ptochoprodromos Poem III; Andreas Livadenos, Periegesis, troparia and other texts; Leo Magistros, Monody on George Palaiologos and other poems; Eustathios of Thessaloniki; Life of Aesop; Galen, Dioscorides and other geographical and medical texts
Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature Hinterberger (2005)Bühler (1987)Lampsides (1975)
Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript