Famous for the two portraits of Gregory of Nazianzus and Elias of
Crete, as well as for a unique cycle of illustrations in honor of
Gregory (of which 5 have been lost), this codex is also noteworthy
for its content (19 commentaries by Elias of Crete, still
unpublished in Greek) and for the story of its creation. The
commentaries were copied around the end of the 12th or the
beginning of the 13th century, a project that did not provide for
miniatures on the frontispiece. These were added a short time
later, together with a prologue. The codex still retains the
binding that was created in Constantinople between 1435 and 1437
during a restoration for its new owner, the Dominican John of
Ragusa, who brought the codex to Basel in 1437.
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