Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Scheide, John Hinsdale, 1875-1942 [Browse]

Booksellers

• Maggs Bros [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Scheide 70. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Goatskin bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Canon tables [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—11th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—11th century [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Cataloged from existing description.
• Layout: framed ruled in dry point.
• Decoration: full-page miniatures; 10 canon tables with decorative frames, figures, and ornament; illuminated headpieces.

Binding note

Probably mid-16th century. Red velvet over wooden boards.

Language note

Greek.

Script

Perlschrift.

Provenance

Early provenance unknown. The manuscript was in the library of the Anastasis Church in Jerusalem (shelfmark Anastaseos 14). It was no longer in Jerusalem by 1934, when it was listed in a Sotheby's catalogue (London, July 1, 1938, p. 74, no. 555) as being consigned by "a Greek living in Salonika." Purchased at this sale by Maggs Bros.

Source acquisition

Purchased from Maggs Brothers by John Hinsdale Scheide on Aug. 3, 1938.

References

• Sofia Kotzabassi and Nancy Patterson Ševčenko, Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century, p. 210
• De Ricci, p. 2120

Cite as

Scheide Library, Princeton University. M 70.

OCLC

54747619

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