Wellesley College, MS Greek 1

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12771

Shelfmark:

MS Greek 1

Title:

Compilation of Greek texts

Place:

Greece?

Greece TGN

Date:

between 1550 and 1650

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

gre

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 442 pages in various pagings : paper ; 20 x 15 cm

Note:

Manuscript codex, incomplete.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Various texts in several different hands. On folio 2r, text begins, "Diēgēsis philosophía..." (narrative or statement of philosophy). Other texts appear to be mainly liturgical, e.g., menaia, doxologia, martyrologia, etc.
Page 152: crown watermark ca. 1450 (Briquet, 4832-4835)
Black ink on laid paper; rubricated in red; decorated initials and head pieces.
Signatures: 18, 22, 38, 42, 5-134, 14-168, 17-194, 208−1, 21-258, 264, 27-306, 31-368, 3710−4 ; fol. 9, 10, 99, 216-219 are singletons.
Pagination in ink from different periods (irregular): 1 leaf, 2-35, 38-41, 52-195, 198-455.
Layout: 1 column, number of lines per page vary.
Some water damage and missing text on first few folios.
Ownership inscriptions, some dated 1733, 1752, 1895. Page 311 has ownership inscription in Greek in pencil in margin, partly illegible: T[?] K. Lagoudas, 25 November 1895.
Purchased by Curtis Runnels from D. and E. Lake (Toronto, Canada) booksellers in December 2001.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Orthodox Eastern Church

Manuscripts, Greek

Liturgics

Philosophy--Manuscripts

Philosophy

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000671653

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College