[Psalter and Odes of Moses with liturgy for Vespers].

Item Info

Title:
[Psalter and Odes of Moses with liturgy for Vespers].
Alternative Title:
Psalter. Byzantine Greek. 1200
Date:
1200s
Creator:
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Description:

  • Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

  • Format: Manuscript codex.

  • Title supplied by cataloger.

  • Layout: Written in 1 column of 20 lines.

  • Script: Flowing rounded minuscule in brownish-black ink.

  • Decoration: Running ornamental penwork of bar with asterisk accents (fol. 52r, 72r) or accented dashed alternating with minims (fol. 71r, 91r), in red. Ornamental initials in a red ink.

  • Title cataloged from existing description.

  • Psalms (incomplete); Odes; Creeds; Liturgy for Friday and Saturday for the 5th week in Lent; Prayers of St. Chrysostom, Anastasius Sinaita, St. Leontius to the Theotokos.

  • Binding: Bound in May 1968 on wooden boards with brown goatskin backstrip.

Subject:
Format:
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Extent:
106 leaves :parchment, illuminations ; 212 x 143 (166 x 123) mm
Digital Collection:
Early Manuscripts collection
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE006049985
Provenance:
  • Source of acquisition: Purchase; Purchased by Clifford Maggs, representing Duke University Library, from Sotheby's, lot 201; 1966 December 12.
  • Ownership history: Provenance: Among the properties of the Governors of Canford School, Wimborne, this manuscript and Greek MSS. 33-39, were collected by Sir Austen Henry Layard, the excavator at Nineveh.
  • Ownership history: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University).
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • Call number: Greek MS 034
  • 006049985
  • duke:178840
  • emsgk01025
  • ark:/87924/r3wh2dj6t
  • 8acba204-e1e2-46e5-8c4a-ca9c21256a75
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