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NYPL Spencer Greek 001 | | Description: ff. 408 - Old (original?) binding; dark reddish-brown leather over thick wooden boards; blind-stamped with circles, stylized vegetation, and interlace; remains of two metal clasps on the front cover. - B. Rosenthal. Purchased by the New York Public Library on May 26, 1955, at the auction sale "L'Art Ancien XXV" in Basel, Switzerland. - 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 51-55. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 10 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLSpencerGreek001_42 | | Language: Greek Country: Undetermined Century: 13th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1r-408v | | Description: - Parchment - 228/36 x 173 mm - One col.; written in 14 lines (occasionally 15); interlinear space 12 mm. | | Country: Undetermined | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XIII2 | Searchable Date Range: 1250 - 1299 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;1 | | Script: Archaizing minuscule | | Figurative Decoration: Seven full-page and fourteen marginal half-page miniatures: f. 1v, f. 365r, f. 365v. | | Other Decoration: Decorated major initials, many of them historiated or zoomorphic; minor initials gold over carmine ink; headpiece on f. 2r with vegetal and rinceau ornaments. | | Notes: On f. 1v, a note by a later hand in Greek. Greek | | Number of Texts: 5 |
| | Text 1: f. 1r-v | | Title:
Mirror text (probably the πίναξ)
| | Language(s): Greek | | Status of text: Illegible due to water damage. | |
| | Text 2: ff. 2r-365r | | Title:
Ψαλτήριον τοῦ Δαυίδ
Bible, O.T., Psalms
| | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: Μακάριος ἀνὴρ ὃς οὐκ ἐπορεύθη | | Explicit: ἧρα ὄνειδος ἐξ υίῶν Ἰσραήλ. | | Notes: Septuaginta, Psalms (1-151) | ![Not Available]()
| f. 193r
Moses teaching the Israelites; hunter carrying a killed animal (rabbit?) forms the letter tau.
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| | Text 3: ff. 366r-398v | | Title: Ὠιδὴ Μωυσέως ἐν τῇ Ἐξόδῳ | | Language(s): Greek | | Incipit: Ἄισωμεν τῷ κυρίῳ | | Explicit: τοῖς γινώσκουσίν σε. | | Notes: Septuaginta, Odes (1-12) | ![Not Available]()
| f. 385r
The Three Children in the Fiery Furnace and an angel; the composition forms a letter epsilon.
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| | Text 4: ff. 398v-402v | | Author: Basil the Great | | Title:
Prayers
| | Language(s): Greek | |
| | Text 5: ff. 403r-407v | | Author: John Chrysostom | | Title:
Prayers
| | Language(s): Greek | ![Not Available]()
| f. 403r
Half-portrait of St. John the Chrysostom; standing figure of a monk forms a letter kappa.
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