Lectionary

Creator:

Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados

Published/Created:

[Byzantine Empire],
[ca. 1200-1249]

Physical Description:

161 ff. : parchment ; 327 x 245 mm.

Materials:

parchment

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms1180.htm

Notes:

Accompanied by detailed list of contents.
Script: Greek miniscule.
Decoration: ornamented headbands in red ink mark the four major sections of the text. Ornamented initials in red ink at the beginnings of some Gospel readings.
Bookplate: L. A.
Binding: Fifteenth-century? Greek-style binding of full brown leather over squared and grooved boards. Blind-tooled; bordered with interlace tendrils, diapered and checker-ruled with additional circular tools containing peacock, Agnus Dei, vase, rampant lion, eagle and fleuron designs.
Purchased in Beirut by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, 1886. Formerly owned by Anson Phelps Stokes; Anson Phelps Stokes II; Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sold 18 November 2003 at Christie's London (sale 6853, lot 14). Ex libris L. A. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.

Abstract:

Manuscript, on parchment, in a single scribal hand, of a Gospel lectionary containing the daily lessons for the ecclesiastical year for both fixed and moveable feasts. Manuscript begins the readings of John from Easter to the sixth Sunday after Easter, and concludes with the readings from 21 May to 31 August.

Topics:

Lectionaries--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Topics:

Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados
piscopal Theologi
Stokes, Anson Phelps,--1874-1958--Ownership
Stokes, Anson Phelps,--1905-1988--Ownership
Stokes, I. N. Phelps--(Isaac Newton Phelps),--1867-1944--Ownership

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Genre:

Annotations
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 1180

Orbis Record:

11712774

Orbis Barcode:

39002094202679

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11354017

Citation:

Lectionary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

11179109

PID:

digcoll:3962854