Moscow Gosudarstvennyĭ istoricheskiĭ muzeĭ Sinod. gr. 298

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

GreekSyntipas1

Location

Moskva, Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Muzej

Siglum / Shelfmark

Sinod. gr. 298 (formerly Vlad. 436) [Diktyon 43923]

Page / Folio range

251v–302v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Βίβλος Συντίπα τοῦ φιλοσόφου (Book of Syntipas the philosopher)

Incipit or textual title

Διήγησις ἐμφιλόσοφος συγγραφεῖσα παρ᾽ ἡμῶν περὶ τοῦ τῶν Περσῶν βασιλέως Κύρου

Version (siglum)

Syntipas

Language Group within Version

Greek Version

Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version

Andreopoulos Syntipas

Languages

Language of text

Byzantine

Digitisation & Editions

Modern Editions

Jernstedt–Nikitin, Liber Syntipae

Note

(Added by Marjolijne Janssen [in progress])

Authorship & Production

Author

Μιχαὴλ Ἀνδρεόπουλος (Michael Andreopoulos)

Place of Production

Trebizond

Date of Production

1251 - 1300

Physical Description

Material

Bombycin (oriental paper)

Total pages / folios

577

Height

233

Width

151

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

Part One: 1-5 theological treatises; 6-109r Alexander Romance (Version K); 109v-115r Sayings of Various Philosophers Including Alexander the King; 115r-115v Rufus the philosopher on πήγανον; 115v-136v Nikephoros Phokas, Velitatio bellica; 136v-229 Kekaumenos, Strategikon; 229-232 Various apophthegmata, short theological treatises, and gnomae; 232v-246 Fables of Syntipas; 246v-247 Two questions of Secundus the philosopher; 247-249v collection of gnomae; 249v-250v three Aesopic fables; 250v-251 address to emperors (Grand Komnenoi - points to Trebizond) and patriarchs; 302v-303v treatise on meteorology; 304-334v Bartholomew of Edessa, Confutatio Agareni; 335-341 invectives against Armenians; 341v-344 Ps. Cyril of Alexandria, Dialogus cum Nestorio 344-348 Letter by James, the Lord's brother; 348-349 Life of Arethas; 349-350v On the Pope and western christians. Part Two: 351-438 Symeon Seth, Stephanites and Ichnelates; 439-491 Life of Aesop; 492-493v Letter; 494-530 Fables of Aesop; 530-531 Aesopic gnomai; 531-549v Fables of Syntipas; 550-577 Physiologos

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Fonkič (1971), McGeer (1995), Karla (2001), Roueché (2009), Stefec (2014)

Research Material

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