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GREEK MANUSCRIPT - ARISTOTLE, THEOLOGY AND BYZANTINE POETRY A manuscript of texts by Aristotle, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, St. Gregory Nazerene (on the Pentecost and Easter), Theodore Prodromos (in verse), and others, [late eighteenth/early nineteenth century]; and a Greek nineteenth century manuscript of theological texts (2) image 1
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GREEK MANUSCRIPT - ARISTOTLE, THEOLOGY AND BYZANTINE POETRY
A manuscript of texts by Aristotle, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, St. Gregory Nazerene (on the Pentecost and Easter), Theodore Prodromos (in verse), and others, [late eighteenth/early nineteenth century]; and a Greek nineteenth century manuscript of theological texts (2)

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GREEK MANUSCRIPT - ARISTOTLE, THEOLOGY AND BYZANTINE POETRY

A manuscript of texts by Aristotle, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, St. Gregory Nazerene (on the Pentecost and Easter), Theodore Prodromos (in verse), and others, in Greek, black and red ink in several neat hands, on paper, 550 pages (8 pages unnumbered, others pp.37-578), 4 pages of diagrams relating to Aristotle's table of virtues, the section (pp.37-109) of poetry with extensive side-notes, some decorative initials in red, contemporary ?Greek blindstamped calf, metal clasps (without straps), rubbed, short tear to spine, 4to (280 x 150mm.), [late eighteenth/early nineteenth century]; and a Greek nineteenth century manuscript of theological texts (2)

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Provenance: Philip Pandely Argenti (1891-1974, diplomat and historian of Chios), 2pp. notes in his hand loosely inserted; gifted to his godson, the present owner.

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First mentioned lacks pp.395/6 - possibly a blank

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A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.
Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784.
[Americana.]
GRAVES, JOHN.