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Lincoln College MS. Gr. 27

Diktyon no.: 48681

Menaeum; ca. 1510

Contents

Language(s): Greek

(fols. 1r–140v)
Menaeum

Menaeum for the month of July.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper folded in 4°, Hand watermarks similar to Mareș 1614 (attested in 1512), chain-distance 33 mm.
Extent: i+142 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 135 mm.

Collation

viii (ff. 1–8), i (f. 9), 11 × xii (ff. 10–141). Fol. 142 is an endpaper. The scribe signed his quires at their beginning and at their end, in the middle of the lower margins, starting with αον on f. 9v and finishing with ια´ (a mistake for ιβ´) on f. 130r.

Layout

23 lines, [ 138 × 85 mm. ], ruling Leroy 20D1.

Hand(s)

Produced by a single anonymous scribe, who wrote on f. 140v: ⟨Δ⟩όξα σοι ὁ Θ(εὸ)ς ἡμῶν δόξα σοι. A hand quite similar to his has recorded on f. 141r that ‘the present Menaeum’ was given to the Church of St Nicholas τῆς Πατέλας by Anousa, wife of Kyr George Damascenus.

Decoration

The scribe drew in brown and red ink a headband on f. 1r. There are ornamented rosettes in red ink, also by his hand, on ff. 1r and 140v.

Additions: An inexperienced hand wrote in black ink on f. 141v a sticheron for Vespers on Saturday: Τὰς ἑσπερινὰς ἡμῶν εὐχάς etc., adding below it the words παπὰ Σταβρινέ.

Binding

Binding (probably eighteenth-century) of marbled paper over pasteboard. The endpapers and pastedowns contain no watermarks.

History

Origin: ca. 1510

Provenance and Acquisition

A hand quite similar to the main scribe has recorded on f. 141r that ‘the present Menaeum’ was given to the Church of St Nicholas τῆς Πατέλας by Anousa, wife of Kyr George Damascenus.

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.