Byzantine & Post-Byzantine manuscripts 22 items

2. Anthology of sermons and hymns : manuscript, [1500s]

Date:
[1500s]
Language:
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Subject:
Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373, Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379, Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373, Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, Hermits—Religious life—History—Sources, Manuscripts, Medieval—Byzantine Empire—History—Sources, Orthodox Eastern Church—16th century—History—Sources, Hymns, Greek (Christian)—Church history—16th century—sources, Sermons, Greek—16th century, Anthologies—16th century, Biographies, Hymns, Manuscripts—16th century, and Sermons—16th century
Description:
Conservation treatment the gift of G. Scott Clemons '90 and Karyn Joaquino Clemons '89, 2008.
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3. John of Damascus and Miscellaneous treatises

Author:
John, of Damascus, Saint
Date:
1250-1300
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Subject:
Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton
Description:
Physical description: I (modern) + 222+I' (modern) folios; 16.9 x 11.6 cm (13.2 x 9.5 cm); 30-32 long lines per page. Arabic paper (bombycine). Modern foliation in pencil in the outside corner of the upper margins. Quire marks by a modern hand in pencil for the purpose of rebinding, the final quire lacks the last two folios, which may have been blank. and Manuscript is written by one scribe using brown ink in the second half of the 13th century. Initials in pale reddish brown (red from fol. 201 on). A 16th-century hand wrote the poem on fol. 222r (in dark brown ink with red initial letters) and replacement text (on the upper right part of the page) on fol. 137r. Some notes by two different hands of the 14th and 16th centuries. One tall leafy initial outlined in brown ink and occasional strips, all in brown ink, in the hand of the scribe. The ornament of the strips is a running ribbon design outlined against a pale brown background (fol. 15r).
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5. Kratēmatarion

Date:
1400-1499
Language:
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Subject:
Orthodox Eastern Church—Hymns—15th century, Orthodox Eastern Church—Liturgy—15th century, Byzantine chants—15th century, Church music—Orthodox Eastern Church, Hymns, Greek—15th century, Music, Byzantine—Manuscripts, Neumes—15th century, Sacred vocal music—Greece—15th century, and Composers—Greece—15th century—Manuscripts
Description:
Ms. codex., Title supplied by the cataloger., and Physical description: 13 double lines per page; written in middle-Byzantine music notation in brown-black and red ink on European paper, probably Italian. The watermark is a dragon (basilic), similar to Dieter and Johanna Harlfinger, "Wasserzeichen aus griechischen Handschriften" (Berlin. 1974), no. 21 (1445) ; large initial letters in red ink; 87 unnumbered folia; marginal notes; first and last pages incomplete.
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6. Lives of the Hermits : manuscript, [1500s]

Date:
[1500s]
Language:
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval—Byzantine Empire—History—Sources, Orthodox Eastern Church—16th century—History—Sources, Hermits—Religious life—History—Sources, Hymns, Greek (Christian)—Church history—16th century—sources, Sermons, Greek—16th century, Biographies, Hymns, Manuscripts—20th century, and Sermons—16th century
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7. Pindari Quaedam et Sopho[...] MS.

Date:
1420-1425
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Subject:
Ajax (Greek mythological figure)—Drama, Electra (Greek mythological figure)—Drama, Geography, Ancient, Greek drama (Tragedy), Greek poetry, Poets, Greek, and Glosses
Description:
Spine title., Ms. codex., and Physical description: Manuscript is written on 21 lines per page in a brownish ink with interlinear glosses and marginal commentaries in the scribal hand in a red faded ink; nota bene hands and large ornamental initial letters on several pages.
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