Steven Avery
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Also recommends Stanley Porter for history.
https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZYXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA20
The Shepherd of Hermas: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook
Codex Athos (A)
Found in a monastery library on Mt. Athos during the 1850s, A is the most
complete extant Greek manuscript/ A dates to the fourteenth or fifteenth century
and contains Vis. 1.1.1-Sim. 9.30.3 (1.1-107.3). Nine leaves were found, but the
final leaf has been lost.5 Six leaves are found in Codex Athous Grigoriou 96, while
three leaves were taken to the University of Leipzig.6 Lambros measures the length
of the written portion of the codex as 18.5 cm by 12 cm. The handwriting on the
manuscript is “extremely fine,” allowing for an average of seventy-two lines per
page with roughly ninety characters per line.7 Lambros also offers a collation of
A that can be checked against the text of the Shepherd in Gebhardt and Harnack's
edition.8
4. For a recent account of Constantine Simonides’s discovery and forgery of parts of
Codex Athos, see Porter (2015, 38-9).
5. Lambros (1888, 5-6); Lake (1912-13,2.4).
6. For the Athos portion of the manuscript, see http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11957/96903
(accessed August 29,2020). On the Leipzig portion, see Bandini and Lusini (1998,628n.20).
7. Lambros (1888, 5-6).
8. Lambros (1888, 11 -23). See Gebhardt and Harnack (1877). The Athos portions of the
manuscript, that is, leaves 1-4, 7-8, can be viewed in Lake (1907).
https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZYXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA20
The Shepherd of Hermas: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook
Codex Athos (A)
Found in a monastery library on Mt. Athos during the 1850s, A is the most
complete extant Greek manuscript/ A dates to the fourteenth or fifteenth century
and contains Vis. 1.1.1-Sim. 9.30.3 (1.1-107.3). Nine leaves were found, but the
final leaf has been lost.5 Six leaves are found in Codex Athous Grigoriou 96, while
three leaves were taken to the University of Leipzig.6 Lambros measures the length
of the written portion of the codex as 18.5 cm by 12 cm. The handwriting on the
manuscript is “extremely fine,” allowing for an average of seventy-two lines per
page with roughly ninety characters per line.7 Lambros also offers a collation of
A that can be checked against the text of the Shepherd in Gebhardt and Harnack's
edition.8
4. For a recent account of Constantine Simonides’s discovery and forgery of parts of
Codex Athos, see Porter (2015, 38-9).
5. Lambros (1888, 5-6); Lake (1912-13,2.4).
6. For the Athos portion of the manuscript, see http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11957/96903
(accessed August 29,2020). On the Leipzig portion, see Bandini and Lusini (1998,628n.20).
7. Lambros (1888, 5-6).
8. Lambros (1888, 11 -23). See Gebhardt and Harnack (1877). The Athos portions of the
manuscript, that is, leaves 1-4, 7-8, can be viewed in Lake (1907).
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