Lectionary
Accession number:
MS M.647
Title:
Lectionary
Created:
Byzantium, second half of 11th century.
Binding:
15th-century Greek monastic brown goatskin over heavy cedar boards; in maroon morocco case.
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1920.
Description:
374 leaves (2 columns, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 330 x 240 mm
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Brooke (catalogue of manuscripts, 1891, I, p. 196); purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from H. Kevorkian in 1920.
Notes:
Ms. Gospel lectionary; written and illuminated in Byzantium in the second half of the 11th century.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 5 large and 12 small headpieces, ornamented intials throughout.
Script:
cursive script
Language:
Greek
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