Item Summary

New Testament Gospels.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Gospel book]
Call Number
83.10
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsn00bc04k
Publisher
[Iraq], [1221]
Language
Syriac
Date Created
1221
Extent
255 leaves : parchment ; 245 x 170 (182 x 122) mm bound to 237 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Early owner, the priest Ḥasan, son of ʻAbd al-Masīḥ, who bought it for 5 dinars; presented to Athelstan Riley, Commissioner of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the East in 1884, by Mar Shimou, Patriarch of the East at his village of Kochanes; exhibited, 1889, at an Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition (no. 378) held at Portman Rooms by the Church of England Working Men's Society; obtained from Maggs (Cat. 871, no. 77, 1960), Oct. 4, 1960. Owned by William Scheide, his bookplate on lower pastedown.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Inscriptions and labels inside lower cover.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii + 255 + iii ; quires signed.
Layout: 28 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; red chapter headers ; MS pages are wrinkled with stains and damage along edges.
Decoration: Tail-piece in red and black with simple calligraphic ornament.
Origin: According the the colophon on the last leaf, copied at the monastery of Mar Joseph at Arvana near Balad (now Eski Mosul) Iraq, on Monday the 25th of the Second Teshrin in the year 1533 of Alexander, and the year 618 of the Arabs (i.e. A.D. 1221).
Binding Note
Later binding. Half-black leather spine connecting old wooden boards (12 mm thick).

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Syriac—New Jersey—Princeton
Leather bindings
Wooden boards
tailpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts

Physical Characteristics

File Count
526

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7de5c9d1-e26d-4838-859e-3133d738d71c/manifest