Princeton University, 85.22

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3210

Shelfmark:

85.22

Title:

Funeral office.

Date:

between 1000 and 1199

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek and Arabic

Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 73 leaves : parchment ; 134 x 109 (98 x 68) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Cataloged from existing description.
Greek text with Arabic translation in parallel columns.
Layout: 11-15 long lines per page.
Decoration: decorated headpiece for the funeral canon for monks (fol. 38r); decorated headpiece for the funeral canon for women (fol. 52r).
Origin: Probably written in Egypt or the Holy Land in the 11th or 12th century.
Sold in 1922 by Leipzig-based antiquarian, book seller, and publisher Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann (1854-1924) to the collector Arnold Mettler-Specker (1867-1945) and deposited for a while in the University Library of Zurich under the shelfmark Or. 85. Purchased by H.P. Kraus in 1948 at auction from Sotheby's & Co. Since some manuscripts of Katalog Hiersemann 500 demonstrably came from the...

Keyword:

parchment (animal material)

Manuscripts, Greek

Leather bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

canon tables

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9937633593506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University