Details

Subject(s)

• Orthodox Eastern Church—19th-century—History—Sources [Browse]
• Confessors (Canon law) [Browse]
• Confessors—Handbooks, manuals, etc—Early works to 1900 [Browse]
• Confession—Orthodox Eastern Church [Browse]
• Greece—Church history—19th-century—Sources [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

ca. 1805.

Restrictions note

Open for research.

Summary note

A confessor's manual including a list of penances prescribed for various sins for the daily life of Christians in the late Ottoman period. Manuscript composed in vernacular Greek in black ink, with initials and headings in red ink. The first seven folios contain a list of contents: "Pinax tou parontos nomikou." Bound in leather on hard boards; sewn on four bands.

Notes

Title supplied by the cataloger.

Language note

Greek.

Source acquisition

Purchase: Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2012-66.

OCLC

813902348

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