Divine liturgies : in Greek]. (DS3492) (Q17258)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444851, MS q Med.210)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Divine liturgies : in Greek]. (DS3492) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444851, MS q Med.210) |
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Divine liturgies : in Greek].
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Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--Greece
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Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Eastern churches--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1590 and 1625?
16. century
17. century
1590
1625
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Extent: 119 leaves : paper, ill. ; 212 x 143 (135 x 83) mm bound to 22 cm in box 24 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Greek.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Secundo folio: chai ...
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Collation: Paper (burnished with watermark of three crescents and countermark SS below a three-leaved clover, typical of 17th-century Italy and Greece), fol. ii (contemporary endpapers) + 119 ; 1-294 304−1 ; modern arabic pencil foliation upper outer corner each page.
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Layout: 1 column, 14 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
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Script: Written in a Greek bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. Bright golden flakes (of pounce?, possibly biotite) adhere to the surface of many letters.
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Decoration: 4- to 6-line penwork initials throughout, some with red, green or blue wash and penwork, stylized flowers and foliage, a grotesque (fol. 28v) and peacock (fol. 38v); 1- to 2-line red capitals throughout.
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Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled brown morocco over wooden boards, board edges decorated and channeled in Greek style.
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Origin: Written "at the end of the 16th century or first quarter of the 17th century, possibly in the Wallachia region of Romania or in Greece" (Kavrus-Hoffmann, p. 61)
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Provenance: Colophon on fol. 28v (around the stem of the initial tau) reads: "Lord, remember hieromonk..." with the name of the scribe scraped away and replaced by the name "Symeon." Early Greek inscription inked inside back board, to which is affixed William Sallloch's address label. Inked Greek inscription on lower edge of text block. Inked column of numbers on inside of front board. Some...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in April 1971 from William Salloch (cat. 283, no. 10).
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Call number: MS q Med.210.
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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