Soft parchment laced-case binding with four leather straps for fastening. Three main sewing stations visible on spine. Flyleaves contemporary with binding.
Philos: Logothetae/Georgii Acropolitae Chronicon ab imp: Alexij Comneni usque ad imp: Michaelis Comneni absque fine Don Juan Gauriel e sparvenfeldt en Valladolid nel mes de abrile 1690”. See also Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum mss. etc. I. G. Sparvenfeldius, Upsala, 1706, p. 54 no. XLVII. The shelfmark “Sparv. 47” is also written in pencil on the front pastedown. A large number “3” is written to the left of the shelfmark. The note in ink on the pastedown is offset from the writing on the front flyleaf.
According to Rudberg’s notes, the order of leaves should be the following: 1, lacuna (1 fol.), 4-7, 3, lacuna (1 fol.), 8-39, lacuna (8 ff.), 48-57, 40-44, 58, 59, 45-47, 87, 88, lacuna (1 fol.), 2, lacuna (12 ff.), 89-93, 60-65, lacuna (1 f.), 66-70, 94-100, 79-86, 71-78 (des. mut. 185, 16
Lacunas are of the following passages ed. Heisenberg (see p. XI):
p. 4, l. 22 (οἶδε)-6,6 (ἀέκον[τί);
14,18 (ἐσταλμένος)-16,10 (Ἀντιοχείας);
72,19 (τὸ μέσον)-84,1 (μενόδοις);
118,14 (ἐκεῖθεν)-119,26 (προσκοπήσας);
121,11 (καὶ τὸ)-137,11 (ληϊσάμενοι);
148,23 (ἀφί[κοντο)-149,21 (ἀπι[στίαν).
1-8 IV; 9-16 IV; 17-22 III; 23-32 V; 33-38 III; [8 ff. missing]; 39-46 IV? (part of thread visible between ff. 43 and 44 and also between 44 and 45; I can’t really explain why); 47-54 IV (47v: ριε); 55-59 III; 60-64 II; 65-70 III; 71-78 IV; 79-86 IV; 87-92 III; 93-100 IV
βϊβλίον λεγόμ(εν)ον ἰσαάκϊος. A note in black in on the lower margin of
στ ζια´ ἀπριλλίου ιβ´= 6711 : This indicates the date 12 April 1202. The same hand wrote another note at