Descriptive Information

Title

[Gospel book].

Call Number

83.4

Identifier

ark:/88435/2b88qh240

Publisher

[10--]

Language

Ancient Greek

Date Created

1000

Extent

193 leaves : parchment ; 222 x 175 (155 x 115) mm.

Provenance

Early provenance unknown. The manuscript was in the library of the Anastasis Church in Jerusalem (shelfmark Anastaseos 14). It was no longer in Jerusalem by 1934, when it was listed in a Sotheby's catalogue (London, July 1, 1938, p. 74, no. 555) as being consigned by "a Greek living in Salonika." Purchased at this sale by Maggs Bros.

Source Acquisition

Purchased from Maggs Brothers by John Hinsdale Scheide on Aug. 3, 1938.

References

Sofia Kotzabassi and Nancy Patterson Ševčenko, Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century, p. 210

De Ricci, p. 2120

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Cataloged from existing description.

Layout: framed ruled in dry point.

Decoration: full-page miniatures; 10 canon tables with decorative frames, figures, and ornament; illuminated headpieces.

Binding Note

Probably mid-16th century. Red velvet over wooden boards.

Discovery Information

Subject

Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton

Canon tables

Illuminated manuscripts—11th century

Headpieces (layout features)—11th century

Parchment

Goatskin bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count

394

Institutional Information

Collection

Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5df171e1-9794-4158-a9b4-586d82460901/manifest

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