Lectionary
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11179109
Description
- Title
- Lectionary
- Creator
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1200-1249]
- Publication Place
- Byzantine Empire
- Abstract
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Manuscript, on parchment, in a single scribal hand, of a Gospel lectionary containing the daily lessons for the ecclesiastical year for both fixed and moveable feasts. Manuscript begins the readings of John from Easter to the sixth Sunday after Easter, and concludes with the readings from 21 May to 31 August
- Description
-
In Greek.
Accompanied by detailed list of contents.
Script: Greek minuscule.
Decoration: ornamented headbands in red ink mark the four major sections of the text. Ornamented initials in red ink at the beginnings of some Gospel readings.
Bookplate: L. A.
Binding: Fifteenth-century? Greek-style binding of full brown leather over squared and grooved boards. Blind-tooled; bordered with interlace tendrils, diapered and checker-ruled with additional circular tools containing peacock, Agnus Dei, vase, rampant lion, eagle and fleuron designs. - Provenance
- Purchased in Beirut by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, 1886. Formerly owned by Anson Phelps Stokes; Anson Phelps Stokes II; Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sold 18 November 2003 at Christie's London (sale 6853, lot 14). Ex libris L. A. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
- Extent
- 161 ff. : 327 x 245 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 1180
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
- Container / Volume
- 1 Box
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Byzantine Empire 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Manuscripts, Medieval
Lectionaries - Subjects
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Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Lectionaries > Early works to 1800
Byzantine Empire > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958 > Ownership
Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1905-1988 > Ownership
Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944 > Ownership
piscopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.) > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Lectionary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11712774
- Object ID (OID)
- 11179109
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