Princeton University, 83.2

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3208

Shelfmark:

83.2

Title:

Gospel lectionary.

Date:

between 900 and 950

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 174 leaves : parchment ; 192 x 151 (150 x 95) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Cataloged from existing description.
Layout: 23-28 long lines per page; framed ruled in dry point.
Decoration: painted intitals (red, green, and blue); headpieces with scrolls, rosettes, and various geometrical designs.
Origin: Written in the first half of the 10th century.
Probably 16th or 17th c. Dark-red goatskin over oak boards with unsupported link stitch.
Early provenance unknown. It was the property of the monk Leontios in the 10th-11th century, who wrote a 4-line invocation in the form of a cross in the middle of fol. 174v. This invocation is followed by another in a later 16th-century hand. The manuscript was possibly in the Monastery of St. John Prodromos (shelfmark alpha 20)

Keyword:

Goatskin bindings

headpieces (layout features)

illuminated manuscripts

parchment (animal material)

lectionaries

Manuscripts, Greek

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9937630803506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University