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Oktoechos.

Accession number
PML 9912
Published
[Venetiis : per Io. Antonium et fratres de Sabio, 1523 mense Mart.]
Description
260 l. : ill. (woodcuts); (8vo)
Notes
Text in Greek.
Text printed in red and black, with two full-page woodcuts, two small woodcuts on t.p., and at end, woodcut headpieces.
The Oktoechos is a service book of Byzantine rites, which provides the hymns and Offices for Sundays throughout th
Binding
Red morocco; 18th c. English binding, gilt-tooled, and inlaid with 16th c. blind-tooled panels signed I.R. (John Reynes).
Variant title
Oktōēchos.
Provenance
From the libraries of Richard Heber, Lord Gosford, and James Toovey, with the bookplates of Gosford (a crowned G) and Toovey.
Classification
Department