University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 46

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16581

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 46

Title:

Haskell Gospels

Bible

Gospels

Haskell Gospels

Scribe:

Theodōros, ho Hagiopetritēs, active 13th century-14th century

Theodoros Hyrtakenos WIKIDATA

Place:

Greece

Greece TGN

Date:

12--

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

illustrations

Physical Description:

Extent: 273 leaves : illustrations ; 265 x 180 (182 x 117) mm, bound to 279 x 194 mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts. Formerly Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 2.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment; fol. iii (unfoliated parchment leaves) + 267 + iii (unfoliated parchment leaves). Flyleaves of parchment are contemporary with the manuscript's rebinding of 1897. Modern foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil 1-267. 40 quires, each of 8 leaves, with the exception of quire 40 which contains 7 leaves. Estimate of content lost: 2 leaves of the lectionary references table...
Layout: 1 column, 20 lines (variants of 19 to 21 lines). Ruling with hard point. Pricking in the outer margins.
Script: Written in minuscule script in brown ink (some fading). Punctuation includes high point, comma, marks of elision and interrogation. Quotation marks in the left margin next to each line of quoted text.
Decoration: Titles in red. Headpieces of floral, foliate, and geometric designs in red, blue, green, and gold (fols. 12r, 100r). The major initial of Matthew is composed of a lion and serpents intertwined to form the letter [beta] (30 mm). The initial of Mark's opening line is of beads and leaves (48 mm). Minor initials set off from the text in red.
Condition: Portion of leaf torn (fol. 144). Sections of the outer margins cut away (fols. 51, 208). Some faded letters overwritten. Random stains.
Binding: Bound in brown morocco by Stikeman & Company in 1897. Title on spine in gold: Four Gospels in Greek, c. A.D. 1500. An Epistles Lectionary fragment (fols. 268-273) bound with the manuscript was removed and rebound as Ms. 50.
Origin: The manuscript is dated to the 13th century, and is judged to have been written in Greece by illuminator and scribe Theodore Hagiopetrites.
Byname: Haskell Gospels.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 2.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, BS3552 1500.
Related shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Ms50.
Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Ms46.
Belonged to Pericles Morades, who is said to have brought the manuscript to the United States from the Greek island of Thera. Added presentation leaf bound in: "A Greek manuscript of the four Gospels. Purchased for the Haskell Museum through Caspar René Gregory and Ernest D. Burton, September 12, 1895. From Constantine Mitchell as administrator of the estate of Pericles Morades (anglice...

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Presentation leaves

Signed bindings

Manuscripts, Greek

Illinois--Chicago

Bible. Gospels

Greek language

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2660206

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif-collection.lib.uchicago.edu/object/ark:61001/b2r49613m73b.json

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago