Ladder to paradise [microform], [ca. 1360-1370].

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John, Climacus, Saint, 6th cent. Ladder to paradise [microform], [ca. 1360-1370].

Ladder to paradise [microform], [ca. 1360-1370].

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Translation from Greek of Klimax tou paradeisou by St. John Climacus. Parts of the text on the first forty leaves are extensively damaged. The text begins with a biography of St. John Climacus. Included also are epistles and "Slovo posnichaskoe", which begins on leaf 5a. The manuscript is interrupted in the thirtieth homily ("on love"). Fragments Ms. Hil. 758. IX and 759. VII are parts of this manuscript and have been returned to it. It was subsequently found that fragment Ms. Hil. 739. III also belongs to this manuscript. Incomplete (the beginning and end are missing). Without inscriptions. Ornamented headings and initials.

1 v. (155 leaves) ; 29 cm.

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