Extent: 168 leaves : paper, ill., music ; 147 x 96 (105 x 68) mm bound to 16 cm in box 19 cm
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Ms. codex. In Church Slavic. Title devised by cataloger. Collation: Paper, fol. i + 168 + i ; not collated ; probable quire signatures in lower right corners trimmed by binder. Layout: 1 column, 13 lines of text and music. Script: Small Church Slavic script in black ink with interlinear "campo aperto" musical notation and rubrics in red. Decoration: Floral headpiece on fol. 1, with gold and color washes, 4-line first initial of text with color and gold acanthus leaf decoration. Binding: 18th-century? calf with large blind-stamped central arabesque on both covers and corner fleurons within narrow roll and fillet borders. Remains of clasps, carmine gauffered edges. Spine in 5 compartments each with a row of 3 small tools (a circle with 10 radiating spokes). Origin: Written in Eastern Europe? in the 17th century? Provenance: Dealers' notations on front flyleaf, some in German. On fol. 166 the date 1895 in ink with inscription and initials K. N. Immediate source of acquisition: Unknown. Call number: MS q Med.258.
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