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Creator: Damianos Guidotes (Scribe), scribe Date: 16xx 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 from caption title on fol. 1r.;Written by Damianos Gidotes and his unidentified scribe. Cf. Duke Greek MS 30, Organon of Aristotle, also by the scribe Damianos Gidotes and his unidentified scribe.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 29-31 lines; unruled.;Script: Written in two hands in various shades of black ink, the scribes alternating throughout the entire text. Written in a minuscule with uncial initials, occasionally ornamented.;Origin: Venice, Italy? Several other manuscripts written by Damianos Gidotes are known, all from the library of San Francesco della Vigna.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Discourse on logic; the introduction refers to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics.;Binding: Modern paper over boards. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 16xx 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 30 lines.;Script: Very clear, beautiful, small minuscule in a black ink interspersed with uncial letters. Titles in faded red ink. Musical notation in dark black ink above each line of text. No accents in the minuscule script. Suppletions in the musical notation marked in a red ink by a contemporary hand; signe-de-renvoi (fol. 15v).;Decoration: Ornamental penwork band in faded red ink (fol. 29r, 52v, e.g.). Ornate ornamental initials throughout in a red and faded red ink, measuring as high as 10 lines of text.;Music: Contains Byzantine musical notation.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Contains the Triodion, the Pentecostarion, Fixed Feasts for the Year, Stichera Alphabetica, Stichera Anatolica and Anastasima. The greater part of the hymns follows the Mt. Athos or Giletan tradition of the 12th and 13th centuries.;Binding: Light tan calf over boards. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 16xx 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 25 lines; first 14 leaves are blank.;Script: Semi-uncial leaning slightly to the right.;Decoration: Simple ornamental headpieces in red and black.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Evangelion with Synaxarion and tables for Holy Days by month and tables for incipits of the Gospels and Apostles.;Binding: Bound in full red silk, embroidered with silver wire, over wooden boards; floral embroidery on cover, with silver plaques of Crucifixion on upper cover and the Holy Trinity on the lower cover; gauffered edges. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Maximos Peloponnēsios Date: 16xx 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 the cataloger.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 21 lines; unruled.;Script: The entire manuscript is written by one scribe. The hand is regular, open and carefully executed minuscule with alternate use of uncial and minuscule characters that slants to the right. The titles are written in red minuscules, the same as the text.;Decoration: Each section of the manuscript, except the portion containing the contents of the volume, has been supplied with a headpiece, a running penwork ornament with variations on several themes. Occasionally an ornamental red initial letter appears in the left margin and on occasions within the text itself.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Kyriakodromion, a series of homilies for 36 Sundays, based on lectionary texts, by Maximos the Peloponnesian.;Binding: The Byzantine binding of full dark brown goatskin over wooden boards is original. All edges of the boards are grooved, coming to a "Y" at the edges with the full thickness of the boards maintained at the corners on which the binder has placed a cross composed of five round elements supported on either side by annular stamps of two concentric circles. In the center of the panel formed by the frame is a lozenge (25 x 25 mm) with an unidentifiable combination of figures within, accented at the four corners a cruciform stamp, composed of five circles. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries