University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 62

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16583

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 62

Title:

Sir Edwin Pears Gospels

Bible

Gospels

Sir Edwin Pears Gospels

Place:

Balkan Peninsula

Balkan Peninsula TGN

Date:

12--

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 117 leaves ; 215 x 140 (150 x 95) mm

Former Owner(s):

Pears, Edwin, 1835-1919

Edwin Pears WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts. Formerly Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 60.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. 117 (modern foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil). Of the 15 extant quires, quire 10 beginning at Matthew 9:6 belongs between those currently numbered 1 and 2, and quire 11 beginning at Mark 7:37 should follow quire 6. It is believed the manuscript's initial quires each contained 8 leaves. Estimate of content lost: kephalaia tables for Matthew and John, and an...
Layout: 2 columns, 30 lines (variants of 26 to 32 lines). Each column is 150 x 42 mm with a space of 11 mm between. Ruling with hard point. Pricking in outer margins. Lections noted in the margins with the indicators arche (beginning) and telos (end).
Script: Written in minuscule script in black ink (fading and flaking). Punctuation includes high point, comma, marks of interrogation and elision. Quotation marks next to lines of Old Testament quotes are placed in the left margin. Errors are corrected either by erasure, or with various reference marks in cases of omission.
Binding: Covers lost. Quires stitched together with cord.
Origin: The manuscript is dated to the 13th century, and is judged to have been written in the Balkan Peninsula.
Condition: Parchment speckled and cockled. Discolored edges. Some tears and holes. Overwriting of faded text with black ink. Water and grease stains.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 60.
Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms62.
Medieval to late 19th century provenance unknown. Belonged to Sir Edwin Pears (1835-1919), British barrister and historian. He is said to have purchased the manuscript in the 1880s in Constantinople, the present-day Istanbul, Turkey, wherein he practiced law in the consular courts for over forty years.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Greek

Illinois--Chicago

Bible. Gospels

Greek language

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2663078

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif-collection.lib.uchicago.edu/object/ark:61001/b21h2qs1kq9s.json

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago