Office of Holy Communion

Description

Title: Office of Holy Communion
Creator: Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados
Published / Created: [ca. 1325]
Publication Place: Byzantine Empire
Abstract: Manuscript scroll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the Greek Orthodox Office of Holy Communion, a series of prayers, hymns and verses intended for private recitation before, during and after taking communion. Text includes prayers attributed to Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Basil the Great
Description: In Greek.
Script: archaizing scribal hand.
Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns.
Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece.
Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou.
Schøyen MS 662.
Provenance: Formerly owned by the monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos; ex libris Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Phillipps MS 3889; Schøyen Collection MS 662. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Extent: 1 scroll : 426 x 16 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Genre: Texts
Manuscripts, Medieval Byzantine Empire 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Monē Docheiariou (Athos, Greece)
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic): Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders
Lord's Supper (Liturgy)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Monē Docheiariou (Athos, Greece)
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados
Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders
Lord's Supper (Liturgy) > Texts
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Byzantine Empire > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827 > Ownership
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 > Ownership
Schøyen, Martin > Ownership
Monē Docheiariou (Athos, Greece) > Ownership

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Citation: Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados, Office of Holy Communion. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.