University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 931
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16627
- Shelfmark:
- Codex Ms. 931
- Title:
- Elizabeth Day McCormick Apocalypse
- Date:
- ca. 1575-1625
- Language:
- Greek
- Material:
- ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 198 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : ill. ; 220 x 151 mm.
- Note:
- Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts. Formerly Goodspeed Grk 37.
Decoration: 69 miniatures; 2 miniatures misordered as painted, Trumpet I, Fire and hail (f. 69v) and Angel with censer; Seal VII, Trumpets given (f. 72 v); interlace headpieces of red and black inks; smaller variation of design appears in the upper margin of some leaves, and between some divisions of text.
Paper (217 x 151 mm.); written space (160 x 110 mm.). 25 quires, 24 of 8 leaves, qu. 25 of 3 leaves. Lacking folio containing Apoc. 16:8-9 and exegesis (between ff. 133v, 134r) though modern Arabic pencil foliation is continuous. Each quire's first leaf displays quire mark in lower margin (21 through 24 misnumbered). Catchwords.
Written in minuscule in black ink. Chapter titles, found mainly on miniatures' leaves (upper or lower margin) in red ink with primary initials in black; primary initials and decorative penwork of text divisions in red ink.
Watermarks in gutter margin; chiefly three diminishing crescents, possibly of northern Italian production.
Partially erased ownership inscription (f. 1r).
Two colophons (f. 194r).
Belonged to Parthenios of Larissa, a Thessalian metropolitan (partially erased inscription f. 1r) reads: And this [belongs] with the other [books] of Parthenios of Larissa. Elizabeth Day McCormick, who purchased the manuscript in Paris (1932), presented it to the University of Chicago in 1937. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5369295
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif-collection.lib.uchicago.edu/object/ark:61001/b2m029n2bp53.json
- Holding Institution:
