Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Funeral Service in Greek and Arabic.
Call Number
85.22
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc41687w33k
Publisher
[between 1000 and 1199]
Language
Ancient Greek
Date Created
1000-1199
Extent
73 leaves : parchment ; 134 x 109 (98 x 68) mm.
Provenance
Sold in 1922 by Leipzig-based antiquarian, book seller, and publisher Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann (1854-1924) to the collector Arnold Mettler-Specker (1867-1945) and deposited for a while in the University Library of Zurich under the shelfmark Or. 85. Purchased by H.P. Kraus in 1948 at auction from Sotheby's & Co. Since some manuscripts of Katalog Hiersemann 500 demonstrably came from the collection of the German collector Friedrich Grote (1861-1922), it is highly likely that this manuscript comes from this source as well, which means that it is again highly likely that it originally hailed from St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt. --Via Peter Tarras.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Paper ; fols. 72 ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 11-15 long lines per page ; Greek text with Arabic translation in parallel columns.
Description: Written by one scribe in black ink ; titles and initials in red ; the Arabic text was probably written by two different but contemporary hands in black, with titles in red ink.
Decoration: decorated headpiece for the funeral canon for monks (fol. 38r); decorated headpiece for the funeral canon for women (fol. 52r).
Origin: Probably written in Egypt or the Holy Land in the 11th or 12th century.
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboard; unsupported link stitch.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Canon tables
Manuscripts, Greek—11th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—11th century
Parchment
initials (layout features)
Leather bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
156

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e6acc067-1ac1-4a84-b47c-5e015cb972a6/manifest