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A Famous Legal Manuscript which had so far Escaped Attention. Manuscript Γ by Gerasimos of Argolis.

• Αποστολόπουλος, Δημήτρης Γ.
• Μιχαηλάρης, Παναγιώτης Δ.
• Παΐζη - Αποστολοπούλου, Μάχη

This study restores a nomocanonical source and provides scholars with a manuscript for which there have been, so far, two mistaken variant readings. To be precise, the article deals with «manuscript Γ by Gerasimos of Argolis» —from which Rallis and Potlis first derived material for the 5th volume of their Constitution of the Divine and Holy Canons— which had either been considered lost for ever (in the fire of Thessaloniki in 1917) or was wrongly identified with another manuscript in the possession of the Bishop of Argolis himself —and which Rallis and Potlis used in the first four volumes of the Constitution. After a time-consuming and exhaustive search, «Man. Γ», as Rallis and Potlis designated it, was located on the shelves of the Library of the Department of History of Modern Times, Ioannina University, where it had come to rest, in accordance with the expressed wish of its last owner, Eulogios Kourilas, the Metropolitan of Korytsa. This study proves that the manuscript was put together in the second half of the 18th century, by the scholar and collector of manuscripts Nikolaos Karatzas, and then passed into the possession of the Bishop of Aegina and Hydra, Gerasimos, who later moved to the see of Argolis. After the restoration of the source, the study publishes the table of contents which Nikolaos Karatzas himself drew up, while texts are identified which were published from this manuscript and the notion is reconsidered that «manuscript Γ» was the only source for four texts of the Byzantine era (Regesten 1072, 1973, 2027 and regeste N. 2244).

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