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This manuscript is part of a larger manuscript in Greek of sermons, with rubrics containing attributions to Saint John Chrysostom, Gregorius Antiochenus, and Gregory of Nazianzus, and indications of appropriate feast days. Each reading is numbered in Greek numerals, and the readings in this fragment are selected numbers between 16 (the probable end of 15 is at the beginning of the volume) and 27 [fol. 34r].
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+42+iii; 345 x 255 mm bound to 355 x 280 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; Collation: Structure uncertain, with at least single leaves missing after fols. 11, 14, 33
Written in two columns of thirty-eight lines; frame-ruled in hard point, with double vertical bounding lines; pricking visible; written area: 255 x 190 mm
Greek Minuscule
Rubrication and three- to five-line initials in red at the beginning of each numbered section; one-line initials in red at left margin of each column throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Greece
11th century to 12th century
Early nineteenth-century English brown morocco; authors and date (sec. XI) in gilt on spine; wooden boards; marbled pastedowns and endleaves
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Dukes of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Sunderland Library sale, London, April 17, 1882, II, no. 2820; to Ridler; Sale, Anderson Galleries, Dec. 9, 1929, no. 347; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Greece
11th century to 12th century
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Dukes of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Sunderland Library sale, London, April 17, 1882, II, no. 2820; to Ridler; Sale, Anderson Galleries, Dec. 9, 1929, no. 347; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
This manuscript is part of a larger manuscript in Greek of sermons, with rubrics containing attributions to Saint John Chrysostom, Gregorius Antiochenus, and Gregory of Nazianzus, and indications of appropriate feast days. Each reading is numbered in Greek numerals, and the readings in this fragment are selected numbers between 16 (the probable end of 15 is at the beginning of the volume) and 27 [fol. 34r].
Greek Minuscule
Rubrication and three- to five-line initials in red at the beginning of each numbered section; one-line initials in red at left margin of each column throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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