Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Lectionary of Acts and Epistles.
Call Number
Princeton MS. 95
Identifier
ark:/88435/5q47rv67x
Publisher
Late 12th century.
Language
Ancient Greek
Date Created
1180-1200
Extent
112 leaves : parchment ; 150 x 115/120 (105 x 75) mm
Source Acquisition
Early provenance is unknown. The manuscript was in the library of Grenville Kane (1854-1943), Tuxedo Park, New York. Purchased by the Princeton University Library from his heirs in 1946.
References
Kotzabassi, Sofia. Greek manuscripts at Princeton, sixth to nineteenth century: a descriptive catalogue, page 143.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fols. 1r-64r: ...]che phovos; polla ta terata kai sēmeia dia tōn apostolōn egineto.
2. fols. 64v-112v: Archē tōn savvatokyriakōn; savvaton a' tōn hagiōn pantōn.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: parchment ; fols. 112 ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 18-20 long lines per page ; hardpoint ruling.
Description: Written by one scribe with black ink used for the text and red ink for the simply decorated initials ; some letters are occasionally extended into upper or outer margin.
Binding Note
Sewn in unsupported link stich in five sewing stations. Boards are not extant.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible New Testament—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Byzantine—New Jersey—Princeton
Lectionaries—12th century
decorated initials (layout features).

Physical Characteristics

File Count
224

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/93843964-e39f-4b21-93af-982abce754ce/manifest