The Testament of Patriarch John Bekkos

Abstract

The article presents the testament of John Bekkos based on Codex Laur. 7.31 which, unlike the manuscript on which the Leo Allatius edition is based,  contains the full text of the document. The previously unpublished and unknown part of the testament introduces two persons close to the testator, Constantine Sinaites and his servant George, to whom the exiled patriarch bequeaths his books and personal effects enumerated in the testament. Laur. 7.31 also contains the date, previously unknown, on which the testament was drawn up (October 1294)

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