Elizabeth Day McCormick Apocalypse (DS16627) (Q69574)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Chicago (5369295, Codex Ms. 931, http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5369295)
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| English | Elizabeth Day McCormick Apocalypse (DS16627) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Chicago (5369295, Codex Ms. 931, http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5369295) |
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Elizabeth Day McCormick Apocalypse
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Bible
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ca. 1575-1625
16. century
17. century
1575Gregorian
1625
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Extent: 198 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : ill. ; 220 x 151 mm.
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ill.
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Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts. Formerly Goodspeed Grk 37.
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Decoration: 69 miniatures; 2 miniatures misordered as painted, Trumpet I, Fire and hail (f. 69v) and Angel with censer; Seal VII, Trumpets given (f. 72 v); interlace headpieces of red and black inks; smaller variation of design appears in the upper margin of some leaves, and between some divisions of text.
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Paper (217 x 151 mm.); written space (160 x 110 mm.). 25 quires, 24 of 8 leaves, qu. 25 of 3 leaves. Lacking folio containing Apoc. 16:8-9 and exegesis (between ff. 133v, 134r) though modern Arabic pencil foliation is continuous. Each quire's first leaf displays quire mark in lower margin (21 through 24 misnumbered). Catchwords.
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Written in minuscule in black ink. Chapter titles, found mainly on miniatures' leaves (upper or lower margin) in red ink with primary initials in black; primary initials and decorative penwork of text divisions in red ink.
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Watermarks in gutter margin; chiefly three diminishing crescents, possibly of northern Italian production.
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Partially erased ownership inscription (f. 1r).
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Two colophons (f. 194r).
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Belonged to Parthenios of Larissa, a Thessalian metropolitan (partially erased inscription f. 1r) reads: And this [belongs] with the other [books] of Parthenios of Larissa. Elizabeth Day McCormick, who purchased the manuscript in Paris (1932), presented it to the University of Chicago in 1937.
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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