[Lectionary of Constantine the Reader].

[Lectionary of Constantine the Reader].

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:[Greece?, between 1200 and 1250]
Description:112 leaves : parchment ; 240 x 190 (190 x 136) mm bound to 252 x 198 cm
Language:Ancient Greek
Subject:
Bible. -- New Testament. -- Greek.
Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Synaxarion -- Early works to 1800.
Decorated initials.
Format: Print
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4951592
Related Items:Container of (manifestation): [Leaf from Lectionary of Constantine the Reader]
Container of (manifestation): [Leaf from Lectionary of Constantine the Reader]
Online version: Lectionary of Constatine the Reader : manuscript, [12--]
Online version: [Lectionary of Constantine the Reader].
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Other authors / contributors:Constantine, the Reader, scribe.
Edgar J. Goodspeed Manuscript Collection.
University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center.
University of Chicago. Library. Ms. 879.
Provenance:Gift; Naomi Donnelley; January 1935.
Undated prayer and notation added by a later hand on fol. 110v.
Marginal notes in a later hand in gray ink on fol. 29r and 60v.
Sale catalogue description (from Erik von Scherling catalogue "Interesting Manuscripts and Documents, List 2," item 96) tipped in on front pastedown.
Naomi Donnelley purchased this manuscript from from antiquarian bookseller Erik von Scherling of Leyden in November 1934. Donnelly then presented it to Edgar J. Goodspeed as a Christmas gift, and at Goodspeed's urging she donated it to the University of Chicago through the Friends of the Library in January 1935.
Binding: 20th-century blue morocco over boards; trimmed, cutting off some of the marginal notes and initials; earlier (18th-century?) red edges.
Notes:Manuscript codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Date of production inferred from style of headings and decoration. See Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, volume 86, pages 157-158.
Origin: Produced in Greece or Asia Minor. The undated colophon on leaf 110r identifies the scribe as the Reader Konstantinos Theologites: "eteleiōth[ē] to par[on] eua[ngelion] dia cheiros Kōnstant[i]n[ou] anag[nōstou] tou theologētē". The codex originally contained 134 leaves. Quires 1-3 (24 leaves of Synaxarion including Johannine section for Weekdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, Easter through Pentecost) are missing. Three detached leaves from quire 3 have been identified: University of Chicago Library Ms879 pt.2 (formerly in the library of Edgar Krentz), McGill University Ms. Greek 11, and Uppsala University Fragm. Ms. Graec. 1.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 110 + i (modern paper); 4⁸ 5⁸(8+1) 6⁶ 7¹²(-3,9,10) 8¹⁰(-3,9) 9-15⁸ 16¹⁰(-3,9) 17⁶; quires signed in Greek numbers on upper right recto of first leaf of each quire (some quires also signed on final leaf verso); modern foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, leaves 1 to 5, and every 5th leaf thereafter.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 28 to 31 lines; ruled in drypoint (ruling type II,1b in Lake, K. Dated Greek miniscule manuscripts to the year 1200).
Script: Written in a miniscule hand in dark brown ink. Punctuation includes high point, low point, and double point, comma, marks of interrogation and elision. Cross for full stop.
Decoration: Headpieces of scrollwork in brown and red (fol. 33r, 40v, 81r). Horizontal bars placed at divisions of the Menologion text. 167 initials in red (40-115 mm) set off from text and embellished with foliate, bead, and knot motifs. Lesson headings and initials highlighted in yellow.
Shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Ms879.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 34.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, BS3352 1300e.
Related shelfmark: Montréal, Canada, McGill University, Ms. Greek 11.
Related shelfmark: Uppsala, Sweden, Uppsala University, Fragm. Ms. Graec. 1.
Related shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Ms879 pt.2.
Byname: Lectionary of Constantine the Reader.
Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts.
Gregory-Aland-Number, L1663
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, volume 1, page 600
Clark, K.W. A descriptive catalogue of Greek New Testament manuscripts in America, pages 267-268
Parvis, M.M. The story of the Goodspeed Collection, page 22
Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, volume 86, pages 147-165
Text in Greek.
Item cataloged from existing descriptions.
Summary:An early 13th-century Gospel Lectionary, likely produced in Greece or Asia Minor, containing Synaxarion and Menologion. Includes minor ornamentation.
Other form:Online version: Constantine, the Reader. Lectionary of Constatine the Reader : manuscript, [12--]
Online version: [Lectionary of Constantine the Reader]. [Greece?, between 1200 and 1250]
Description
Item Description:Manuscript codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Date of production inferred from style of headings and decoration. See Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, volume 86, pages 157-158.
Origin: Produced in Greece or Asia Minor. The undated colophon on leaf 110r identifies the scribe as the Reader Konstantinos Theologites: "eteleiōth[ē] to par[on] eua[ngelion] dia cheiros Kōnstant[i]n[ou] anag[nōstou] tou theologētē". The codex originally contained 134 leaves. Quires 1-3 (24 leaves of Synaxarion including Johannine section for Weekdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, Easter through Pentecost) are missing. Three detached leaves from quire 3 have been identified: University of Chicago Library Ms879 pt.2 (formerly in the library of Edgar Krentz), McGill University Ms. Greek 11, and Uppsala University Fragm. Ms. Graec. 1.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 110 + i (modern paper); 4⁸ 5⁸(8+1) 6⁶ 7¹²(-3,9,10) 8¹⁰(-3,9) 9-15⁸ 16¹⁰(-3,9) 17⁶; quires signed in Greek numbers on upper right recto of first leaf of each quire (some quires also signed on final leaf verso); modern foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, leaves 1 to 5, and every 5th leaf thereafter.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 28 to 31 lines; ruled in drypoint (ruling type II,1b in Lake, K. Dated Greek miniscule manuscripts to the year 1200).
Script: Written in a miniscule hand in dark brown ink. Punctuation includes high point, low point, and double point, comma, marks of interrogation and elision. Cross for full stop.
Decoration: Headpieces of scrollwork in brown and red (fol. 33r, 40v, 81r). Horizontal bars placed at divisions of the Menologion text. 167 initials in red (40-115 mm) set off from text and embellished with foliate, bead, and knot motifs. Lesson headings and initials highlighted in yellow.
Shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Ms879.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Goodspeed Ms. Grk. 34.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, BS3352 1300e.
Related shelfmark: Montréal, Canada, McGill University, Ms. Greek 11.
Related shelfmark: Uppsala, Sweden, Uppsala University, Fragm. Ms. Graec. 1.
Related shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Ms879 pt.2.
Byname: Lectionary of Constantine the Reader.
Forms part of the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts.
Physical Description:112 leaves : parchment ; 240 x 190 (190 x 136) mm bound to 252 x 198 cm

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