Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Scheide 142 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Goatskin bindings (Binding) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Lectionaries—12th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—12th century [Browse]
• Miniatures (Illuminations) [Browse]
• Minuscule—12th century [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Ms. lectionary (incomplete).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Cataloged from existing description.
• Layout: 20-25 lines in 2 columns; framed ruled in dry point.
• Decoration: miniatures and painted initials. A colophon on p. 615 indicates an abbot Alexios Stoudios commissioned and guilded the manuscript. But the colophon is false as most of the decoration in this manuscript was executed in the 20th century by the forger Demetrios Pelekasis (1881-1973).
• Scribe: Written by two scribes: A: p. 3-702 and p. 711-739; B. p. 703-710.
• Origin: Probably written in Constantinople in the 12th century.

Binding note

Probably 16th c. Dark-red goatskin over chamfered wooden boards.

Language note

Greek.

Script

miniscule.

Cite as

Scheide Library, Princeton University. M 142.

OCLC

54747673

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