The Oldest Uncial Script Manuscript of the Mathematike Syntaxis by Claudius Ptolemy Paris. gr. 2389: The Problems of Dating
Kurysheva Marina A.
The manuscript Paris. gr. 2389 is the oldest parchment codex of the Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy. The manuscript was written in the sloping uncial of Constantinopolitan origin by two scribes of the same school of calligraphy in a Byzantine scriptorium. The codex is reliably localized in Constantinople. Since the original diacritics are completely absent in this majuscule manuscript, its production should be attributed to the second half of the eighth century, to the period before the appearance of diacritical signs at the turn of the eighth and ninth centuries.
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