Divine liturgies : in Greek

Item Information

Title:
Divine liturgies : in Greek
Contributor:
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
Contributor:
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Former owner:
Salloch, William
Date:
[1590?–1625?]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--Greece
Manuscripts, Medieval--Greece
Greek style bindings
Goatskin bindings
Wooden boards
Booksellers' copies
Inscriptions
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Eastern churches--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800
Places:
Greece
Romania
Extent:
119 leaves : paper, ill. ; 212 x 143 (135 x 83) mm bound to 22 cm in box 24 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/jq08ct858
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Place of origin:
[Greece?]
Language:
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Table of Contents:
1. fol.1-40: Divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.
2. fol. 40v: blank.
3. fol. 41-93v: Divine liturgy of St. Basil.
4. fol. 94-95v: interpretation of the Divine liturgy of the Presanctified.
5. fol. 96-119v: Divine liturgy of the Presanctified.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written "at the end of the 16th century or first quarter of the 17th century, possibly in the Wallachia region of Romania or in Greece" (Kavrus-Hoffmann, p. 61)
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Colophon on fol. 28v (around the stem of the initial tau) reads: "Lord, remember hieromonk..." with the name of the scribe scraped away and replaced by the name "Symeon." Early Greek inscription inked inside back board, to which is affixed William Sallloch's address label. Inked Greek inscription on lower edge of text block. Inked column of numbers on inside of front board. Some soil and water-damage to text block.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in April 1971 from William Salloch (cat. 283, no. 10).
Notes (citation):
Kavrus-Hoffmann, N., Catalogue of Greek medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America,pt. VI
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: chai ...
Collation: Paper (burnished with watermark of three crescents and countermark SS below a three-leaved clover, typical of 17th-century Italy and Greece), fol. ii (contemporary endpapers) + 119 ; 1-29⁴ 30⁴⁻¹ ; modern arabic pencil foliation upper outer corner each page.
Layout: 1 column, 14 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
Script: Written in a Greek bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. Bright golden flakes (of pounce?, possibly biotite) adhere to the surface of many letters.
Decoration: 4- to 6-line penwork initials throughout, some with red, green or blue wash and penwork, stylized flowers and foliage, a grotesque (fol. 28v) and peacock (fol. 38v); 1- to 2-line red capitals throughout.
Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled brown morocco over wooden boards, board edges decorated and channeled in Greek style.
Notes (language):
In Greek.
Identifier:
06_01_018715
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.210
Barcode:
39999090789130