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[ZACHARIAS CHRYSOPOLITANUS]

Two long and thin cuttings from a fine manuscript of Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, In unum ex quatuor, a grammatical and etymological explanation of the Greek, Hebrew and some of the Latin words found in his Gospel Harmony, in Latin, on vellum

[Italy
15th century]

€700 - €900

Two rectangular cuttings from across the width of two bifolia (most probably from the same quire), each with leaves with text in double column and up to 17 lines in a semi-humanist hand, simple initials in red or blue, a few marginalia, recovered from reuse in a later binding and hence with spots, stains, scuffs (reverses scrubbed clean of text and entirely blank) and damage to edges in places, each cutting: 385 by 138mm

Zacharias Chrysopolitanus (d. c. 1155) was a member of the Premonstratensian Order and headmaster of the cathedral school at Besançon. He went on to serve in the the Abbey of Saint Martin in Laon, where around 1140 he wrote his Gospel Harmony based on Tatian's Diatesseron, and the present work. The text here corresponds to Migne, Pat. Lat. 186, cols. 158-59 & 179, and 164-65 & 172-73

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