Ɵ A homily discussing adultery, in Greek, manuscript on parchment [Greece, 11th century]

Ɵ Two leaves with a homily discussing adultery and citing a patristic text, in Greek, decorated manuscript on parchment[Greece (perhaps Constantinople), eleventh century] Two leaves, each with double column of 30 lines in a fine Greek minuscule, each leaf complete apart from trimmed at head with losses of uppermost line or so, stains from reuse in a later binding (that on second leaf with damage to two thirds of text), overall fair condition and on fine and heavy parchment, 320 by 240mm.; in cloth-covered binding Provenance:1.Written in Greece in the eleventh century, and by the seventeenth- or eighteenth-century in Italy and reused on bindings: inscriptions of "282" and "E" in Italian hand of that date.2. Sotheby's, 5 December 1994, lot 50 (part).3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1979/3, acquired in Sotheby's. Text:From a large format homiliary. The script here is an excellent example of medieval Greek minuscule, which was developed as a book hand in the ninth and tenth centuries as a less formal and quicker to write form of uncials, with many ligatures. The hand here is close to that of 14 leaves of homilies by Gregory of Nazianus and John Chrysostom offered in Quaritch, cat. 1270, Bookhands of the Middle Ages IV, 2000, no. 59.