[Nicolaus Gospels].

[Nicolaus Gospels].

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Uniform title:	Bible. Gospels. 1133.
Imprint:	[Edessa, Macedonia], [between May 4, 1133 and 1500?]
Description:	1 online resource (218 leaves)
Language:	Ancient Greek
Subject:	Bible. -- New Testament. -- Greek. Synaxarion -- Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern) -- Illinois -- Chicago. Illuminations (paintings)
Format:	E-Resource
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10088628
Related Items:	Print version: [Nicolaus Gospels].

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Varying Form of Title:	Spine title: Euangelion membrainon Spine title: Ευαγγέλιον μεμβραινον
Other authors / contributors:	Nikolaos, of Edessa, active 12th century, scribe. Riefstahl, R. Meyer (Rudolf Meyer), 1880-1936, bookseller. Edgar J. Goodspeed Manuscript Collection. University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center. University of Chicago. Library. Ms. 129. University of Chicago Digital Preservation Collection.
Provenance:	Purchased with funds provided by Frederick T. Haskell; Rudolf M. Riefstahl; November 1929. The manuscript was in the collection of the Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre in Constantinople, the present-day Istanbul, Turkey, where it was seen and catalogued by Emmanuel Joannides in the early 1860s, and by Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus in the early 20th century. Catalogues and scholarly publications have noted the shelfmarks 419, 767, and 799 as those assigned at various times to the gospels while it was part of the Metochion Library. Acquired by the University of Chicago in 1929 from Rudolf M. Riefstahl (New York), with funds provided by Chicago businessman Frederick T. Haskell. University of Chicago Libraries bookplate (pastedown, front); stamp (illegible, fol. 1r); notation, 62.94.150 (pastedown, back). Binding: Bound in marbled paper over millboard, quarter green morocco. Stamped title EUANGELION MEMBRAINON and panels of floral design on spine in gold. Binding: Bound in marbled paper over millboard, quarter green morocco. Stamped title ΕΥΑΓΓΈΛΙΟΝ ΜΕΜΒΡΑΙΝΟΝ and panels of floral design on spine in gold.
Notes:	Composite codex manuscript. Title devised by cataloger. Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts. Formerly Goodspeed Grk. 11. Date of production for Gospels text from colophon (fols. 192v-193r): "mnēsthēti kyrie tou grapsantos Nikolaou tou hamartōlou monachou tou Edesinou kai tōn autou... Eteleiōthē mēni Artemēsiō, tō kata Rōmaious Maiō D. Indiktiō ia tou schma etous" (Remember, Lord, the writer, the sinful monk Nicolaus and his family... Finished in the month Artemision, which is in the Roman reckoning May, on the 4th day, the 11th indication, in the year 6641 [that is, 1133]). Date of production for the miniature on fol. 1v (late 13th or early 14th century) from its style. Date of production for the lectionary tables on fols. 195r-219v (late 15th century) from the script and the watermarks of the paper. Watermark of lectionary leaves, fols. 196, 207, and 208, similar to Briquet, Balance dans un cercle à plateaux circulaires suspendus à l'attache mediane, 2551 (Ferrare, 1475). For fols. 210, 211, and 221, the watermark is similar to Briquet, Tête de boeuf au serpent s'enroulant autour d'une croix ou d'une tige, 15366 (Brescia, 1474). Parchment (fols. 1-193) and paper (fols. 194-221); fol. 219 (foliated in pencil 1-3, 5-60, 62-148, 150-221); 1⁶(-4) 2⁶ 3-5⁸ 6⁸(±4) 7-8⁸ 9⁸(-1) 10-19⁸ 20⁸(-1) 21-24⁸ 25⁶(-6) 26⁶ 27¹⁰ 28⁶ 29⁸(-7,8); lacks fols. 4 (miniatures of Matthew and Luke), 61 (miniature of Mark), and 149 (miniature of John); a 15th-century replacement paper leaf containing the text of Matthew 19:1-19:19 was inserted between fols. 40 and 42. Layout: 1 column, 21 to 25 lines. Ruling with hard point. Pricking in the outer margins. Titles and indicators arche (beginning) and telos (end) in red. Script: Written in minuscule script in dark brown ink (some flaking). Punctuation includes high and low points, comma, marks of elision and interrogation. Quotation marks in left margin next to each line of quoted text. Decoration: Illuminated miniature of Virgin Mary with suppliant on fol. 1v. Virgin at left, wearing a blue robe and wimple or kerchief, and red shoes; her hand extends over a suppliant kneeling, lower right; suppliant, dressed in gray cape, blue head covering, robe, and pectoral decorated with a red cross; hand of god emerges from clouds, upper right. Headpieces embellished with birds and foliate motifs in blue, rose, gold, and green (fols. 5r, 62r, 94r, 150r). Major initials (30 mm) composed of bead and foliate designs in blue, rose, and gold. Minor initials in red set off from the text (occasional duplication of an end letter of the preceding line). In an 1864 catalogue entry, Emmanuel Joannides described 5 miniatures within the manuscript as portraits of the Evangelists, and of the Hyperagia Theotokos (most Holy Mother of God) pictured with a young woman. A second catalogue description by Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus, published in 1915, notes 4 extant miniatures, all of which were said to be Evangelists, as the Virgin Mary (fol. 1v) was misidentified as St. Matthew. All 4 miniatures of the Evangelists were missing when the University of Chicago acquired this codex in 1929. In 2023, the University of Chicago acquired a detached leaf (fol. 61) for the miniature of Mark from this codex (Ms129 pt.2). Origin: The manuscript was written in Macedonia in the city of Edessa, the present-day Édhessa, Greece by the monk Nicolaus, who completed his work May 4, 1133 (his colophon, fols. 192v-193r). The miniature of the Virgin Mary with suppliant is judged to be a later addition from the late 13th or early 14th century. The lectionary tables (Synaxarion, Menologion) on paper on fols. 195r-219v were written in the late 15th century. Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Metochion Panagiou Taphou, 419. Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Metochion Panagiou Taphou, 767. Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Metochion Panagiou Taphou, 799. Former shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 11. Former shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, BS3552 1133. Related shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Ms129 pt.2. Date of production for Gospels text from colophon (fols. 192v-193r): "μνήσθητι κύριε τοῦ γράψαντος Νικολαου τοῦ ἁμαρτωλοῦ μοναχοῦ τοῦ Ἐδεσινοῦ και τῶν αὐτου... Ἐτελειώθη μηνὶ Ἀρτεμησιῳ, τῷ κατὰ Ῥωμαίους Μαΐῳ Δ. Ἰνδικτιω ια τοῦ ςχμά ἔτους" (Remember, Lord, the writer, the sinful monk Nicolaus and his family... Finished in the month Artemision, which is in the Roman reckoning May, on the 4th day, the 11th indication, in the year 6641 [that is, 1133]). Layout: 1 column, 21 to 25 lines. Ruling with hard point. Pricking in the outer margins. Titles and indicators αρχε (beginning) and τελος (end) in red. Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Μετόχιον Παναγίου Τάφου, 419. Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Μετόχιον Παναγίου Τάφου, 767. Former shelfmark: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Μετόχιον Παναγίου Τάφου, 799. Open access Unrestricted online access Gregory-Aland-Number, 1152 Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Athanasios. Hierosolymitikē Vivliothēkē, ētoi Katalogos tōn en tais vivliothēkais, volume 5, pages 291-292 Ho en Konstantinopolei Hellenikos Philologikos Syllogos 2 (1864), pages 62-63, no. 5 Cartledge, S.A. "A group of Gospels manuscripts" (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1930), pages 1-32 Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, volume 1, page 568 Clark, K.W. A descriptive catalogue of Greek New Testament manuscripts in America, pages 231-233 Parvis, M.M. The story of the Goodspeed Collection, pages 12-13 Παπαδόπουλος-Κεραμεύς, Αθανάσιος. Ἱεροσολυμιτικὴ βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς βιβλιοθήκαις, volume 5, pages 291-292 Ὁ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει Ἑλληνικὸς φιλολογικὸς σύλλογος 2 (1864), page 62-63, no. 5 Electronic reproduction. Chicago : University of Chicago Library, [2011] (Edgar J. Goodspeed Manuscript Collection ) Electronic reproduction. Chicago : University of Chicago Library, [2011]. (Digitized as part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Manuscript Collection and the University of Chicago Digital Preservation Collection) Master and use copy. Digital Master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 http://www.diglib.org/standards/bmarkfin.htm Text in Greek. Item cataloged from existing descriptions. digitized 2011 University of Chicago Library committed to preserve Description based on online resource; title constructed by cataloger of manuscript version (University of Chicago Library Web site, viewed on October 28, 2014).
Summary:	Four gospels in Greek. Ammonian section and Eusebian canon numbers, lectionary headings, and incipits in the margins. Contains late 15th century lectionary tables.
Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note:	Description available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Other form:	Print version: [Nicolaus Gospels]. [Edessa, Macedonia], [between May 4, 1133 and 1500?]