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NYPL Spencer Greek 002 | Description: ff. 241 - Old (original?) binding; dark brown leather over thick (10 mm.) wooden boards; front is blind-stamped with a cross in the middle surrounded by two frames with vegetal ornament. Remains of clasps. - Purchased by NYPL from a dealer in Florence, Italy, in 1958. - Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, "Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America. Part II: The New York Public Library," Manuscripta50.1 (2006) 21-76, here 55-59. | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 0 | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLSpencerGreek002_ | Language: Greek Country: Undetermined Century: 12th |
| Part 1: ff. 1r-241v | Description: - Parchment - 315/16 x 240 mm - Two cols.; written in 25 lines; interlinear space 9.5-11mm. | Country: Undetermined | Cardinal point: | Region: | City: | Assigned Date: s. XII/XIII | Searchable Date Range: 1150 - 1210 | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;1 | Scribe(s): Constantine | Script: Liturgical minuscule | Figurative Decoration: Headpiece depicting the Deesis on f. 1r. | Other Decoration: Several headpieces decorated with intertwined circles (f. 27v), palmettes (f. 59r and f. 112v), two birds in arches (f. 76r), palmettes in guilloche (f. 141v), and interlace ornament (f. 168v). Major initals show standing evangelists; some zoomorphic. | Notes: Scribe left his name on f. 113r and f. 168r (bottom margins); note in Byzantine cryptographic system on f. 234r. Greek | Number of Texts: 7 |
| Text 1: ff. 1r-27v | Title:
Readings
| Language(s): Greek | Notes: Daily readings from the gospel of John. Part of Synacharion (ff. 1r-204r). | |
| Text 2: ff. 27v-76r | Title:
Readings
| Language(s): Greek | Notes: Daily readings from the gosple of Matthew. Part of Synacharion (ff. 1r-204r). Lacuna between ff. 49v and 50r: …καὶ ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ ἐπιστρε// //ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ὑπάρχουσιν… | |
| Text 3: ff. 76r-141v | Title:
Readings
| Language(s): Greek | Notes: Daily readings from the gospel of Luke. Part of Synacharion (ff. 1r-204r). | |
| Text 4: ff. 141v-168r | Title:
Vigils (Παννυχίδες-Νηστεῖαι )
| Language(s): Greek | Notes: Part of Synacharion (ff. 1r-204r). | |
| Text 5: ff. 168v-197r | Title:
Passions ( Πάθη)
| Language(s): Greek | Notes: Part of Synacharion (ff. 1r-204r). Lacuna between ff. 196v and 197r:...ἥτις ἐστὶν μετὰ τὴν παρασκευήν// //μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη… | |
| Text 6: ff. 197r-204r | Title:
Morning Lections (Ἑωθινά)
| Language(s): Greek | Notes: Part of Synacharion (ff. 1r-204r). | |
| Text 7: ff. 204v-241v | Title:
Μηνολόγιον σὺν Θεῷ ἁγίῳ
Menologion
| Language(s): Greek | Incipit: ἀρχὴ τῆς ἰνδικτιῶνος καὶ μνήμη τοῦ ὁσίου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Συμεὼν τοῦ Στυλίτου | Explicit: τῆς θυγατρὸς αὐτοῦ Ἡρῳδιάδος | Status of text: Ending defectively. | |
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