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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 and Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379 Date: 1xxx 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 (fol. 1r; fol. 3v).;Layout: Written in 2 columns of 30 lines; 30 lines ruled with a dry point on the hair side. Because the leaves have been trimmed to fit the codex as endleaves, all pricking marks have been cut away.;Script: Written in a regular, open, rounded cursive hand, not very large, with a slightly rightward slant, the scribe mixes uncial and minuscule letters and uses small accents and square breathings and the iota adscript.;Decoration: Decorative penwork between the homilies (red ink for penwork and title). Decorated initial with red and blue colors.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Saint Basil's Homily 19 on the Holy Martyrs and Homily in Lacizis. Two bifolia attached at the spine edge, having served as endsheets in a binding. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: GermanosII, Patriarch of Constantinople, 1175?-1240 Date: 15xx 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.;Titles from heads of Greek and Latin texts.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 35-39 lines; the text is not ruled for either the Greek or Latin sections, however, the margins of the Greek text have been ruled with pencil.;Script: The Greek hand is that of a modern scholar in a flowing open hand. Title in minuscule.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Sermon on the Annunciation in Greek followed by a Latin translation.;Binding: Bound in vellum over boards; title in ms. on spine: Germanus Patriarcha in Annunc. B. Mariae Graece Manuscr.; endleaves with "Pro Patria" watermark and counter mark of "C & I Honig" very nearly the same as that in Heawood "Pro Patria" 3697 (1724-1726). View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 15xx 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 gathering.;Titles from opening rubrics.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 25 lines; ruled consistently on the verso of the leaf using a mastara.;Script: Written in a strong round bouclé hand with letters vertical but slanting slightly in the direction of the writing; with clear and distinctive accents and breathing marks in a dark brown ink. There is a mixed usage of uncials and cursives. The hand has many characteristics of those found in Duke Gk. MS. 81.;Decoration: Red penwork of the initial letter and penwork ornamentation on fol. 1r. Ornamental marginal initials average one to the page. Red ink appears to have been used for the title and dates which appear in the upper margins.;Title cataloged from existing description.;fol. 1r-3v: Life of Alexius for March 17; fol. 4r-8v: Life of Sophronius by Ioannes Zonara for March 11; watermark of an anchor encircled and surmounted by a six-pointed star, and two letters ("P-B") and surmounted by a trefoil (similar to Briquet 9619 (the letters) and 523 (the anchor)). Bound out of order (correct order: fol. 4-8, 1-3).;Binding: Around a single signature, the pamphlet binding is of dark brown paste paper over light-weight binder's boards. Two blank endsheets, added by the binder, bear the mark "G. Fichtner Nachf." Also preceding the text is a sheet that appears to have been inserted at the time of the binding on which is pasted a square of graph paper with the handwritten title label in black ink: "Manuscrit Graec. /[double rule]/ XVI Siècle." View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Kollock, Shepard Kosciusko Date: 1853 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Description: The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, volume 25, issue 2, pages 165-203 View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Crawford, Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, 25th earl of, 1812-1880 Date: 1870 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Forsyth, John Date: 1851 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Description: The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, volume 23, issue 2, pages 218-236 View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Date: 1840 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Pfizmaier, August, 1808-1887 Date: 1875 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library