University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 129
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16587
- Shelfmark:
- Codex Ms. 129
- Title:
- Nicolaus Gospels
- Scribe:
- Nikolaos, of Edessa, active 12th century
- Place:
- Edessa, Macedonia
- Date:
- between May 4, 1133 and 1500?
- Language:
- Text in Greek
- Material:
- parchment and paper, illumination
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 218 leaves : parchment and paper, illumination ; 125 x 98 (90 x 70) mm bound to 135 x 107 mm
- Note:
- Composite codex manuscript.
Title devised by cataloger.
Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts. Formerly Goodspeed Grk. 11.
Date of production for Gospels text from colophon (fols. 192v-193r): "mnēsthēti kyrie tou grapsantos Nikolaou tou hamartōlou monachou tou Edesinou kai tōn autou... Eteleiōthē mēni Artemēsiō, tō kata Rōmaious Maiō D. Indiktiō ia tou schma etous" (Remember, Lord, the writer, the sinful monk Nicolaus and his family... Finished in the month Artemision, which is in the Roman reckoning May, on the...
Date of production for the miniature on fol. 1v (late 13th or early 14th century) from its style.
Date of production for the lectionary tables on fols. 195r-219v (late 15th century) from the script and the watermarks of the paper. Watermark of lectionary leaves, fols. 196, 207, and 208, similar to Briquet, Balance dans un cercle à plateaux circulaires suspendus à l'attache mediane, 2551 (Ferrare, 1475). For fols. 210, 211, and 221, the watermark is similar to Briquet, Tête de boeuf au...
Parchment (fols. 1-193) and paper (fols. 194-221); fol. 219 (foliated in pencil 1-3, 5-60, 62-148, 150-221); 1⁶(-4) 2⁶ 3-5⁸ 6⁸(±4) 7-8⁸ 9⁸(-1) 10-19⁸ 20⁸(-1) 21-24⁸ 25⁶(-6) 26⁶ 27¹⁰ 28⁶ 29⁸(-7,8); lacks fols. 4 (miniatures of Matthew and Luke), 61 (miniature of Mark), and 149 (miniature of John); a 15th-century replacement paper leaf containing the text of Matthew 19:1-19:19 was inserted...
Layout: 1 column, 21 to 25 lines. Ruling with hard point. Pricking in the outer margins. Titles and indicators arche (beginning) and telos (end) in red.
Script: Written in minuscule script in dark brown ink (some flaking). Punctuation includes high and low points, comma, marks of elision and interrogation. Quotation marks in left margin next to each line of quoted text.
Decoration: Illuminated miniature of Virgin Mary with suppliant on fol. 1v. Virgin at left, wearing a blue robe and wimple or kerchief, and red shoes; her hand extends over a suppliant kneeling, lower right; suppliant, dressed in gray cape, blue head covering, robe, and pectoral decorated with a red cross; hand of god emerges from clouds, upper right. Headpieces embellished with birds and...
In an 1864 catalogue entry, Emmanuel Joannides described 5 miniatures within the manuscript as portraits of the Evangelists, and of the Hyperagia Theotokos (most Holy Mother of God) pictured with a young woman. A second catalogue description by Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus, published in 1915, notes 4 extant miniatures, all of which were said to be Evangelists, as the Virgin Mary (fol. 1v...
Origin: The manuscript was written in Macedonia in the city of Edessa, the present-day Édhessa, Greece by the monk Nicolaus, who completed his work May 4, 1133 (his colophon, fols. 192v-193r). The miniature of the Virgin Mary with suppliant is judged to be a later addition from the late 13th or early 14th century. The lectionary tables (Synaxarion, Menologion) on paper on fols. 195r-219v were...
Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Metochion Panagiou Taphou, 419.
Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Metochion Panagiou Taphou, 767.
Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Metochion Panagiou Taphou, 799.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 11.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, BS3552 1133.
Related shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Ms129 pt.2.
The manuscript was in the collection of the Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre in Constantinople, the present-day Istanbul, Turkey, where it was seen and catalogued by Emmanuel Joannides in the early 1860s, and by Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus in the early 20th century. Catalogues and scholarly publications have noted the shelfmarks 419, 767, and 799 as those assigned at various times to the...
Acquired by the University of Chicago in 1929 from Rudolf M. Riefstahl (New York), with funds provided by Chicago businessman Frederick T. Haskell.
University of Chicago Libraries bookplate (pastedown, front); stamp (illegible, fol. 1r); notation, 62.94.150 (pastedown, back). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2689850
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif-collection.lib.uchicago.edu/object/ark:61001/b2hg4dv0t19t.json
- Holding Institution:
