[Homilies on the Gospel of John].

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

Format: Manuscript leaves.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in 1 column of 26 lines; only the gutter and fore edge margins are ruled, likely with a ruling form.

Script: Written in a neat round hand with distinctive accents and breathing marks in dark brown ink. The letters are firmly formed and are nearly vertical with a slight slant to the right. There is a mixed use of uncials and cursives; in abbreviations, however, the scribe favors the use of the cursive form.

Decoration: Ornamental pemwork and painted headpieces and initials are found for each of the homilies represented. The headpieces include penwork guilloche, ranging in colors from bluish green to reddish orange to red. Initial letters may contain floral and leaf patterns worked in red and yellow ochres.

Origin: Possibly Mt. Athos.

Title cataloged from existing description.

Six leaves containing the decorated headpieces of a single manuscript and the beginning only of six homilies (4, 7, 12, 18, and 21).

Binding: Wrapped around the text, of which three pairs of leaves have been guarded together to form the textblock, are two tan leaves with the watermark of "G. Fichten Nachf." Tipped in between the first and second free fly is a sheet of heavier stock onto which is affixed a label (59 x 146 mm) from graft paper with the following in script: "XVIe siècle/Manuscrit Grec." Below is the number "2" in blue editor's pencil.