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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3209

Shelfmark:

83.4

Title:

Gospel book.

Date:

10--

Language:

Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 193 leaves : parchment ; 222 x 175 (155 x 115) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Cataloged from existing description.
Layout: framed ruled in dry point.
Decoration: full-page miniatures; 10 canon tables with decorative frames, figures, and ornament; illuminated headpieces.
Early provenance unknown. The manuscript was in the library of the Anastasis Church in Jerusalem (shelfmark Anastaseos 14). It was no longer in Jerusalem by 1934, when it was listed in a Sotheby's catalogue (London, July 1, 1938, p. 74, no. 555) as being consigned by "a Greek living in Salonika." Purchased at this sale by Maggs Bros.

Keyword:

Goatskin bindings

illuminated manuscripts

parchment (animal material)

canon tables

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Greek

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9937632903506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5df171e1-9794-4158-a9b4-586d82460901/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University