[New Testament, Acts and Epistles].

Item Info

Title:
[New Testament, Acts and Epistles].
Alternative Title:
Bible. Acts. Greek (Medieval Greek). 1200.
Date:
1200 to 1300
Description:

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

  • Praxapostolos with Euthalian apparatus. Order of Books: Acts, General Epistles, Pauline Epistles. Hebrews is placed between II Thessalonians and I Timothy. Contains Euthalian prologue to the Pauline Epistles, kephalaia, and hypotheses.

  • Published: [between 1200 and 1300]

  • Cited in: Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., v. II, p. 1910, no. 3, Aland, Kurt. Kurzgefasste Liste der Griechischen, Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. 2nd ed., 2423, Clark, K. W. Eight American Praxapostoloi, Duke Greek MS 3

  • Binding: Modern quarter leather over reused sixteenth century boards. Sewn on three raised cords, double endbands with blue and natural linen.

  • Format: Manuscript codex.

  • Title supplied by cataloger.

  • Layout: Written in 1 column of 27 lines; ruled; pricking marks sometimes visible.

  • Script: Roundish cursive. Chapter titles in semiuncials in the head and tail margins, sometimes in red.

  • Decoration: Ornamental penwork.

  • Title cataloged from existing description.

  • Byzantine Greek.

Subject:
Format:
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Extent:
227 leaves : parchment, illuminations ; 192 x 122 (140 x 91) mm
Digital Collection:
Early Manuscripts collection
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE006021599
Provenance:
  • Source of acquisition: Purchase; Gregor Aharon, Shop of Bonaventure; 1935
  • Ownership history: Provenance: Former owner: Acton Griscom. Purchased from American Art Association through Lathrop Harper, before 1934.
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • Call number: Greek MS 3
  • 006021599
  • emsgk01106
  • ark:/87924/r4b85g81p
  • 6ece95dc-32d1-4fd7-ad6c-b739fd2636c8
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