Harvard University, MS Russ 131

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10412

Shelfmark:

MS Russ 131

Title:

Apostol with liturgical calendar

Date:

circa 1575-1599.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

chu

Church Slavonic WIKIDATA

Material:

illuminations

Physical Description:

Extent: 596 leaves, bound (.3 linear feet) : illuminations ; 17 cm

Note:

Written in Church Slavonic in Muscovite semiuncial bookhand in black ink on paper, with manuscript corrections in the margins in 16th-century hand.
Decorated with red initials and 24 colored and gilt headpieces in simple plaitwork protected by cutout sheets of silk textile, pasted to the preceding leaf.
Bound in 19th-century saffian leather with gold tooling on boards, with a fragment of the 18th-century binding on the spine with the inscription in Cyrillic, Apostol; sewn on three cords, one clasp missing, one is shelved separately.
Inscription on f.162 in Cyrillic, 1773 Februa(ry).
Blank pages inserted to replace missing f.583-587; f.591-595 repaired with plain paper.
In box; clasp shelved in a sepatrate prefab container.
Gift of Bayard Livingston Kilgour, 1956.

Keyword:

Gold tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Bible. Apostles

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990147411630203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:431051736

Holding Institution:

Harvard University