University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 50

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DS ID:

DS16582

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 50

Title:

Haskell lectionary

Lectionary

Haskell Lectionary

Place:

Greece

Greece TGN

Date:

12--

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 6 leaves ; 262 x 165 (180-190 x 110-120) mm, bound to 266 x 173 mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts. Formerly Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 3.
Collation: Parchment; i (unfoliated parchment flyleaf) + 6 + i (unfoliated paper flyleaf). Modern foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil 268-273. The leaves were bound at the end of Ms. 46, and the foliation completed before the gospel manuscript and lectionary leaves were separated.
Layout: 1 column, 39-43 lines. Frame ruling with hard point. Titles in red (faded). Contains date, or holy day, and epistle source.
Script: Written in minuscule script in dark brown ink (some flaking). Punctuation includes high point, comma, marks of elision and interrogation.
Decoration: Major initials (20-40 mm) set off from the text in red (faded).
Condition: Torn leaf (fol. 268). Moderately cockled. Water and dirt stains. Insect damage.
Binding: Bound in brown morocco by Stikeman & Company. Shelf number in gold on front cover.
Origin: The manuscript to which the present leaves belonged is judged to have been written in the 13th century in Greece.
Medieval to late 19th century provenance unknown. Two 19th-century inscriptions in Greek on fol. 273v. Belonged to Pericles Morades, who is said to have brought the lectionary leaves (bound with Ms. 46) to the United States from the Greek island of Thera. Marginal notes in Syriac in pencil. University of Chicago Libraries bookplate (front pastedown). Notation in Greek (fols. 269v).
Byname: Haskell Lectionary.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 3.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, BS3632 1200.
Related shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms46.
Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms50.

Keyword:

Early works

Lent

Bible. New Testament

Greek language

Manuscripts, Greek

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2660586

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif-collection.lib.uchicago.edu/object/ark:61001/b2252c21c40b.json

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago