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Creator: John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript leaves.;Titles from opening rubrics.;Layout: Written in 2 columns of 33 lines; 33 lines ruled with a dry point on the hair side across the full width of the leaf; pricking marks are not visible.;Script: Written in a very regular roundish, smooth flowing hand, letters mostly connected, except where an omicron appears in either the medial or initial position; pendant in brown ink with a rather wide reed pen. The letters slant slightly in the direction of the line of writing with no spacing between words. There are very few uncial letters and none are enlarged abnormally.;Decoration: On fol. 1v at the point in the text to which the reference is made is an outlined penwork initial "A" in red ink with knotted stems and leaf arm in the middle margin. On fol. 2r where Homily 40 on Genesis commences is an ornamental penwork band in red ink, with the width of the column (15 x 75 mm) consisting of running leafy acanthus scrollwork which forms within the running patterns three palmettes shapes, all within double ruled frame with corner trefoil finials. The initial letter phi in red is formed of a compass drawn circle (20 mm in diameter) the inner side with running acanthus leaf pattern, resting on a cone-shaped pedestal supporting the central stem of the letter which had foliate bands, topped by a slender two-part folial finial anchored to the lower by a bud the pointed end of which emerges opposite the end of the stem of the phi inside the top of the circle.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Two leaves with fragmentary portion of at least Homilies 39 (Patrologia Graeca 53, 359) and 40 (PG 53.568) on Genesis; originally used as binding for a book containing Demosthenes in Greek, the name preserved in the space covering the spine. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 16 lines; leaves 1-11 ruled for 13, the remainder ruled for 16 lines.;Script: Small, narrow minuscule in brown ink.;Decoration: Initials, chapter headings and decorations in deep red, occasionally in red and brilliant green. Ornamental headpiece of strapwork in brown and red, with floriate finials extending diagonally from each corner. Additional headpieces have been cut out of the manuscript.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Binding: A fifteenth-century binding of full goatskin over wooden boards, blind tooled, one fore edge clasp (added in the 20th century); end papers from a printed book with text in Greek and Latin. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 26-27 lines; ruled for 26-27 lines with a dry point on the hair side in one column.;Script: A very round, largish thirteenth-century pendant hand in a brown ink. The titles, numbers, kephalaia, and liturgical rubrics are written generally in semi-uncials. The hand in the text is a beautifully executed and fluid ductus with a tendency at times to slant to the left. The hand contains an even mixture of neatly formed uncial and flowing minuscule cursive characters.;Decoration: Kephalaia appear in the upper and lower margins, in the scribal hand, red; scribal Eusebian sections and canon numbers are in red in the fore edge margins. Each Gospel has been provided with an ornamental headpiece and a facing evangelist's portrait. The only well-preserved one is that of St. John (fol. 11v, 81v, 129v, and 209v). For the opening of each of the Gospels and the kephalaia for St. Matthew, there are varying headpieces (fol. 9v, 12r, 82r, 130r, and 210r). Lectionary tables are at the front and back of the codex. A complete set of Eusebian numbers are provided sporadically.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Evangelion with lectionary tables for Synaxarion and Menolgion.;Binding: A Byzantine binding of dark brown morocco over pine, now considerably damaged by insects; edges grooved to corners originally supplied with two fore edge triple interlaced thong clasps anchored in the lower board and attached to the upper cover by means of edge pins (only one nearer the head remains); blind-tooled panels--three, one inside the other--in quadruple fillets; the angles of the panels intersected by diagonals originating at the corner of the covers, extending to the inside of the middle panel, thus creating a lozenge in the center of the cover. Affixed to the center by two copper alloy nails is a thick (3.5 mm) undecorated silver alloy cross (101 x 75 mm, with arms 15 mm wide). Sewn in the Byzantine style with chain-link style sewing with extended endbands worked in a chevron pattern in white, green, and red silk: with a beaded cap, worked over a primary endband of bleached linen. Endsheets are 16th century with an anchor watermark (partially visible). View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 21 lines; ruled for 21 lines with a fine dry point on the hair side in one column.;Script: A squarish late thirteenth century pendant hand with a finely executed mixture of clearly formed uncial and minuscule characters, and a good mixture of ligatures, with a hardly perceptible rightward slant. Kephalia appear in the upper and lower margins in the scribal hand red; scribal Eusebian sections and canon numbers are red in the fore edge margins.;Decoration: Originally four evangelists' portraits; now only that of St. Mark remains. Each gospel has been prepared with a pi-headpiece in red ink, each with a slightly different form, and each has an ornamental initial letter in red ink. There is only one running penwork ornament.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Tetraevangelion. Portrait of the Evangelist Mark partly damaged with loss. Missing final chapter of the Gospel of John.;Binding: Modern full brown morocco over oak boards, beveled edges, tooled in blind a panel with a lozenge; raised double cords with new single parchment endsheets inside both covers. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 17 lines; leaves 1-236 parchment, leaves 237-248 paper.;Script: The hand is a quite small, carefully executed minuscule with some alternate use of uncial and minuscule characters with a slightly perceptible slant to the right, pendant, done with a very fine nibbed reed pen in brown ink.;Decoration: In the chapter lists, the numbers and initials are gilt and the text is in a deep red. The Eusebian canon numbers are in gilt in the margins. There are few running penwork ornamentation, mostly an unbroken series of minims with foliate finials. For the beginning of the three gospels--Mark, Luke and John--each is provided with rectangular bar headpieces that enclose ornamental titles. Distinctive intial letters are found only at the beginning of Luke and John, whereas the initial letter for the beginning of Mark is simple red ink penwork with flourishes.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Tetraevangelion. Text is complete except for one fol. at the beginning (Matthew 1:1-11), one internal fol. (gamma 8, containing Matthew 11:25-12:14), and about seven fol. at the end (John 19:12-the end). With kephalia before Mark, Luke, and John; kephalia for Matthew and the lectionary tables on the paper leaves. Corners damaged with slight loss of text.;Binding: Bound in 1950 by the James McDonald Company in purple (now faded almost to brown) velvet over wooden boards. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 2 columns of 23-24 lines; ruled for 23-25 lines with a dry point to the hair side to accommodate both the text and the commentary.;Script: There are two scribes represented. Scribe I (fol. 1-64v) writes with a roundish, neat, irregular flowing cursive, pendant, with a tendency to accent the down strokes, with a reed nib using a dark brown ink. Scribe II (fol. 165r-181) is less practiced than Scribe I; he writes in a largish regular if not particularly beautiful pendant hand with a soft brown ink. In both sections, headings, accents and punctuation are in a red ink.;Decoration: The ornamentation consists of the initial letters: Scribe I uses a rather smallish knotted, floriated, and foliated form outlined in red, filled with a dark blue pigment; Scribe II has used only the reddish orange for initials. He has reinked in red some of the pages written by Scribe I. Ornamental bar headpiece, checkered in two hues of blue, outlined in red and gilt (fol. 1).;Title cataloged from existing description.;New Testament Lectionary with Menaion.;Binding: Originally a Byzantine binding of dark brown morocco over heavy wooden boards (the wood is not identifiable because of the pastedowns) with plain edges which have been tooled with a simple narrow fillet four or five times. The volume was rebacked with poor quality calf preserving the original (Byzantine) tooled covers. Both upper and lower covers were decorated in the same manner: an untooled wide frame, mitred at the corners, edged by triple-fillet tool around the edges, encloses an inner frame composed of multiple impressions of heart-shaped rinceau pattern joined at the points in the center. The center panel formed by this frame is decorated by diagonals in triple fillets and one line through the center; the junctures are marked by small lozenges with fleur-de-lis and the opposing central triangular panels at the head and tail are centered by a small round stamp with the form of some "fantastic" bird. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 28-29 lines.;Script: Scribe I (fol. 1r-77v) writes a small, irregular minuscule usually through the line--neither pendant nor resting on the line. He uses a wide nib which produces contrasting thick and thin lines as may be seen in the transverse strokes of the uncial kappa, lambda, chi, and alpha. Although the hand tends to be upright, there is a perceptible slant to the right. The titles, chapters and canon numbers are all written in semi-uncials, slightly largers than the letters of the text. The titles are frequently highlighted with a yellow wash. The scribe frequently fills in the outlines of a letter with deep red ink. Scribe II commences without loss of text at fol. 78r in the middle of a lesson for Palm Sunday.;Decoration: The titles and headings are highlighted in yellow. Some of the capitals are touched in red; there are more than 190 decorated initials of two main styles according to the taste of the scribes: 1) penwork ornament with foliate ornaments and knotted stems, pointing hands frequently infilled with red and sometimes yellow, and 2) simpler designs in red usually without the penwork outlines. There are headpieces which stretch across the full width of the column: fol. 1r, 117v, 123r, 127v, 133r, 138v, 140v, 142v, 143v (marginal foliate ornaments), 146v, 147v, and 150r. Some decorated initials are copied out again in margins in medieval hands and a standing figure holding a cross was added in margin on fol. 110v.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Gospel lectionary with readings for Sundays and for weekdays between Easter and Pentecost; part of flyleaf was replaced with another manuscript apparently an eleventh- or twelfth- century commentary on Genesis. The last two leaves are very defective.;Binding: Bound by Sydney M. Cockerell of Douglas Cockerell & Sons in November 1949 in oak boards with spine of white alum tawed pigskin, blind stamped, spine title gilt, silver catches and clasps on plaited leather thongs; note by binder enclosed; marbled slipcase. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 2 columns of 20 lines; ruled for 20 lines, 12 mm apart, with a dry point on the hair side.;Script: The work of one scribe only, except for the colophons and the one page of added liturgical material on the last leaf (fol. 276r-v). Written in a deep brown ink, the minuscule is remarkably open and widely spaced, as is evident from the ruling with 12 mm between the lines. The letters are carefully formed, mostly vertical, rounded, and pendant, and none is enlarged or extends above the line of text except those letters which have ascenders and descenders. As a liturgical text, the words are occasionally separated by the ecphonetic notations which have been added in the line of text and above in a soft red.;Decoration: Throughout the scribe follows a very similar pattern of constructing initial letters: the large initials are mostly outlined in gold with the interior void; there are several colored initials (fol. 1r, 48r, 79r, 111r, 154r, and 197r) and many in red. The image of the letter "T" growing out of the partridge breast is reminiscent of Moscow, Historical Museum, Cod. VI, 382 where the letter "A" is similarly presented. The ornamental headpieces are of several types: the introductory headpiece (fol. 1r) follows a carpet motif whereas those for the beginning of the major sections have been created in a style of the rectangular headpiece of the 11th/12th century (fol. 1r, 48r, 79r, 111r, 154r, and 197r). For the divisions in the menologion, the divisions are marked by a simple, slender (3 mm) gilt bar, except for one that is a running ornament (fol. 269r) and a slender gilt turned ornament (fol. 275v);Music: Contains ecphonetic notation.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Binding: Covers of thin wooden boards (8 mm thick), beveled on the inside and covered with a dark brown morocco. Around the edge of the board a frame has been formed by a small roll (4mm) with a running pattern composed of vine and fruit, bordered on either side in blind by three fillets, one wider than the other two. Within the frame a lozenge has been created of the same combination of tools converging at the inside edge of the frame at the center of each side. Within each of the four corners a lozenge stamp filled with a blossom and leaves (23 x 18 mm) has been affixed; the same stamp with points touching are arranged vertically. The two fore edge clasps are wanting. They were apprarently made of fabric and may actually have been ties anchored under the cover by two nails since there are no distinctions between the attachments of the upper and lower covers. The manuscript has been rebacked sometime in its recent history, likely within the twentieth-century. Decorated endsheets are of a widely spaced leaf patterns in light green, reddish tan and black against a pink background. At one time the edges of the textblock were gilt. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Symeon, Metaphrastes, active 10th century Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 2 columns of 30 lines; ruled.;Script: Written throughout by one scribe in uncial and minuscule. He writes with a regular, rounded hand, pendant, with a slight slant in the direction of the text. He uses a heavily inked reed pen that produces strong serifs in both the initiation of the letter and in the penlifts.;Decoration: Interlaced ornamental penwork headpiece without a lined border in dark red and black. A few headings and some initials in red.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Binding: Bound in full calf, with gold stamped borders on covers, and marbled edges. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title supplied by cataloger.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 26 lines.;Script: A small minuscule in black ink. On some leaves, the ink appears to be written in a different black ink (e.g. fol. 31r). Black initials appear slightly larger than the text. The letters kappa, phi, and zeta have long flourishes at the bottom of the line.;Decoration: Penwork ornament in black ink. Ornamental bar headpiece over a heading of ornamental uncial initials(fol. 31r).;Title cataloged from existing description.;A portion of a larger volume which contained readings and liturgical instructions for September and much of October. Preserved now are only readings for September 5, 12, 13, and two other identified days, and for October 1, 2, and a portion of another day. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries