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| | New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,
Beinecke MS 262 | | Description: ff. i + 42 + i - Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case; handwritten on spine: "Codex Memb Graec"; on front cover, "no. 2". - Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 6564). Bought from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957. - Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 262. | | Notes:-Manuscript on parchment (thick; most leaves palimpsest: religious text of the 10th century, in a small, regular Greek minuscule is faintly visible) of Miscellaneous prayers. Includes Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (the many peculiarities of the text suggest that it was copied by a scribe unfamiliar with Greek, perhaps from dictation); Gospel of John, 1.1-14. The lower text of palimpsest leaves appears to contain the Life of an unidentified saint named Ioannes. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 91 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BeineckeMS262_47 | | Language: Greek; Latin Country: Italy Century: 15th | | View a detailed description: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms262.htm | | View in the Beinecke's Digital Library: http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3433939 |
| | Part 1: | | Description: - parchment - 178 x 132 (135 x 105) mm. | | Country: Italy | Cardinal point: | | Region: Italy | City: | | Assigned Date: [between 1400 and 1500] | Searchable Date Range: 1400 - 1500 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Script: Written by two scribes in clumsily formed Greek minuscule: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-5v, 41r-42v (he signs himself brother Jacobus on f. 42r); Scribe 2, ff. 6r-39r (an unusually large and thick script). Latin added on ff. 39v-41r in gothic cursive of 15th or 16th century. Marginal notes in Greek by various later hands. | | Notes: Initials very crudely done, in various styles and several shades of red. Rubrics throughout. Some scribblings in the margins, including a cow on f. 25v. Folios 1, 2, 3, 41, and 42 are all torn, so that significant portions of the text are missing. Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case; handwritten on spine: "Codex Memb Graec"; on front cover, "no. 2". | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: | | Title: Liturgy. | | Subjects: John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Christian hagiography.; Liturgies.; Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.; Prayers--Early works to 1800.; | | Language(s): Greek; Latin | |
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