Modern flyleaves in 1980 binding; two paper and one parchment in front, one parchment and two paper in back Collation by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann Binding: Modern half leather, rebound by Marty Dickson, July 1980 (pencil note inside back cover) Layout: Two columns of twenty-eight lines, script often positioned across ruled lines; frame-ruled in hard point; folios ruled on the hair side (Leroy I); prickings frequently visible; colored initials in left margins in Wisdom of Solomon (fol. 1r-1v); written area: 260 x 145 mm Script: Minuscule bouletée Script: Scribe: Joseph Decoration: Running title (Sophia Solom(onos)) in Alexandrian majuscule with alternating magenta red and blue letters; enlarged initials in magenta red (Wisdom of Solomon, fol. 1r-1v) Related resource: Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda. "Lost and Found Folios of Codex Athens, National Library of Greece 2641: Philadelphia, Free Library, Fragment Lewis E 251," Rivista di studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, N.S. 42 (2005): 93-104. Provenance: Parent manuscript codex Atheniensis 2641 was made at Constantinople for the patrician Samonas by the scribe Joseph (colophon); donated by an unknown owner to the library of Monē tou Timiou Prodromou (monastery of Saint John the Baptist), Serrai, Greece; stolen from the monastery by Bulgarians in 1917; 1919, placed at the Ethnikē Vivliothēkē tēs Hellados (National Library of...
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