Accession number
MS M.794
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.794).
Display Date
Aug. 28, 1700.
Created
Russia, Aug. 28, 1700.
Binding
Original 17th-century Russian red velvet over boards; 2 clasps; gilt gauffered edges.
Credit line
Purchased, 1935.
Description
356 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 330 x 200 mm
Provenance
Purchased from the Plaza Book Auction Corporation, New York, in 1935.
Notes
Ms. Gospel book; written and decorated in Russia in the 17th or 18th century.
Written in a medium Cyrillic book hand; dated in the colophon on fol. 356r; Casey reads the date as Aug. 28, 1700; Nancy Patterson Ševčenko reads the date as Aug. 5, 1608--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: ornamental title heads; 4 woodcut Evangelist portraits that have been dated to the 16th or 17th century.
Textiles: silk protectors (curtains) before each woodcut; silk lining inside binding and first flyleaf.
Written in a medium Cyrillic book hand; dated in the colophon on fol. 356r; Casey reads the date as Aug. 28, 1700; Nancy Patterson Ševčenko reads the date as Aug. 5, 1608--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: ornamental title heads; 4 woodcut Evangelist portraits that have been dated to the 16th or 17th century.
Textiles: silk protectors (curtains) before each woodcut; silk lining inside binding and first flyleaf.
Script
Cyrillic script
Language
Church Slavic
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