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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3210

Shelfmark:

85.22

Title:

Funeral Service in Greek and Arabic

Funeral office

Author:

Orthodox Eastern Church

Eastern Orthodox Church WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1000 and 1199

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek and Arabic

Greek WIKIDATA

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

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

Former Owner(s):

Hiersemann, Karl Wilhelm, 1854-1924

Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann WIKIDATA

Mettler-Specker, Arnold, 1867-1945

Arnold Mettler WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Paper ; fols. 72 ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 11-15 long lines per page ; Greek text with Arabic translation in parallel columns.
Description: Written by one scribe in black ink ; titles and initials in red ; the Arabic text was probably written by two different but contemporary hands in black, with titles in red ink.
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:

canon tables

initials (layout features)

Leather bindings

parchment (animal material)

Manuscripts, Greek

Eleventh century

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

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

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University