Jerusalem Patriarchal Library Ms. 208

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	GreekSyntipas12
Location	Jerusalem, Πατριαρχική Βιβλιοθήκη Παναγίου Τάφου
Siglum/Shelfmark	Hieros. Patr. 208 [Diktyon 35445]
Page/Folio range	150r-199v

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative	Βίβλος Συντίπα τοῦ φιλοσόφου (Book of Syntipas the philosopher)
Incipit or textual title	Διήγησις φιλοσόφου συγγραφεῖσα παρ᾽ ἡμῶν
Version (siglum)	Syntipas
└ Language Group within Version	Greek Version
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version	Metaphrasis
└ 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://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279392437-jo/?st=gallery
Modern Editions

Note
(Added by Marjolijne Janssen [in progress])

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Hierodeacon Porphyrios
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	Sozopolis
Date of Manuscript Production	1599
Source of Date of Manuscript Production	Géhin-Kouroupou (2008)

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	204
Height	203
Width	160
Script style/form
Prose or verse	Prose
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	Letter from bishop Damaskinos (Stoudites) to Michael Kantakouzenos (Şeytanoğlu, d. 1578), megas domestikos to whom Damaskinos gifts these beast tales, which he himself collected: his Physiologos (4r–45v); the 2nd recension of the Physiologos (48r–68v); notes in different hand on 69v and 199v mentioning (Sophronios/a) metropolitan of Nicaea; Stephanites and Ichnelates (71r–149r); 199r personal letter to a bishop of Nicaea, doodles, more fables of Aesop (in 17th-c. hand according to Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1891))

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue	Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1891)
Modern Research Literature

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation

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