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Lincoln College MS. Gr. 26

Diktyon no.: 48680

Menaeum; ca. 1475

Contents

Language(s): Greek

(fols. 1r–222v)
Menaeum

Menaeum for the month of December: the end is lost, so that the text breaks off before the end of the office for 31 December. Ff. 185v and 190v were originally blank.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper folded in 4°, Griffin watermarks similar to Briquet 7451 (attested in 1472), chain-distance 32 mm (ff. 1–194); mountain watermarks similar to Piccard on-line 150636 (attested in 1477), chain-distance 32 mm (ff. 195–220).
Extent: 222 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 140 mm.

Collation

23 × viii (ff. 1–184), text loss, 2 × i (ff. 185–186), 2 × iv (ff. 187–194), text loss, vi (ff. 195–200), i (f. 201), 2 × viii (ff. 202–217), 3 × i (ff. 218–220), ii (ff. 221–222), text loss. The scribe signed his quires at their beginning, in the middle of the lower margin, starting with β´ on f. 9r and finishing with κζ´ on f. 210r.

Layout

23 lines [ 150 × 85 mm. ], ruling unclear.

Hand(s)

Produced by a single anonymous scribe.

Decoration

There is no ornament.

Additions: A sixteenth-century hand has copied on f. 190v the Epistles reading for Christmas: Ἀδελφοὶ ὅτι ἦλθε τὸ πλήρωμα etc. (Gal 4:4–7).

Binding

Binding (probably sixteenth-century) of brown leather over squared and grooved wooden boards. There are four slightly protruding ridges on the spine, the endbands are raised, the covers are flush with the book-block. Traces remain of a pin on the upper cover and a leather thong on the lower one.

History

Origin: c. 1475

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequeathed by Sir George Wheler (1651–1724), who acquired it during his journey to Greece (1675–1676).

Record Sources

Description by Georgi Parpulov (2023).

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-02: New description by Georgi Parpulov.