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Beinecke MS 294 | | Description: ff. i + 102 + i - Eighteenth century. Islamic. A flowered arabesque on a gilt central medallion deeply inset on brown goatskin with a border of lighter leather outlined with blind-tooled ropes. Spine blind-tooled with a gold-tooled title. Rebacked. - Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 5514). Purchased 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 294. | | Notes:-Manuscript on paper (partial unidentified watermarks) composed in three parts. Part I: Collection of passages on Mt. Sinai, from several authors. Part II: Paisius Hagiapostolites, History of Mt. Sinai, in rhyming verse. With Unidentified account of Alexander the Great. Part III: Unidentified account of the kings of Egypt. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 0 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BeineckeMS294_47 | | Language: Greek Century: 17th | | View a detailed description: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms294.htm |
| | Part 1: | | Description: - paper - 147 x 101 (ca. 109 x 80) mm. | | Country: | Cardinal point: | | Region: Mt. Sinai; Constantinople | City: | | Assigned Date: 1619, 1674; [ca. 1720-30] | Searchable Date Range: 1619 - 1730 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Script: Part I (ff. 1-4): Written by a single scribe, Constantine Raphael Byzantinus, in a well-formed minuscule. Part II (ff. 5-76): Scribe 1 copied the main text (ff. 5v-70r) in a delicate and well formed script. He signed his name, Jacobus, on f. 70r and dated the work 5 October 1619. An additional note that seems to localize the codex to Mt. Sinai, occurs in his hand at the top of f. 71v. Scribe 2 (ff. 70v-76v) wrote in a large, bold and carelessly executed minuscule. Part III (ff. 77-102): Written by a single copyist who completed the manuscript on 6 March 1674. | | Notes: Part II: Main text is rubricated and preceded by a modest headpiece, in red. Crude headpiece added by Scribe 2. Part III: Small decorative initials with accompanying flourishes, in black. All folios waterstained in upper portion. Binding: Eighteenth century. Islamic. A flowered arabesque on a gilt central medallion deeply inset on brown goatskin with a border of lighter leather outlined with blind-tooled ropes. Spine blind-tooled with a gold-tooled title. Rebacked. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: | | Author: Paisius Hagiapostolites. | | Other Associate: Alexander the Great 356-323 B.C. | | Title: History of Mount Sinai, etc. | | Subjects: Paisius Hagiapostolites.; Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai); Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.; Egypt--History.; | | Language(s): Greek | |
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