Lincoln College MS. Gr. 35
Diktyon no.: 48689
Monastery rule (typicon); c. 1300 / c. 1330–1335
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Foundress’s rule (τύπικον) for the Convent of the Virgin τῆς Βεβαίας Ἐλπίδος in Constantinople, preceded by a table of contents (πίναξ). Most of f. 13r and all of f. 13v are blank.
Commemorations for the foundress’s family.
Cartulary (περιορισμός) of the convent’s buildings and possessions.
Supplementary rule (ὑποτύποσις δευτέρα) issued by the foundress’s daughter.
Commemorations for donors of the convent. Most of f. 161r and all of ff. 161v–163v were originally blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
16–19 lines, 172–182 × 120 mm. , ruling Leroy V 20D1 (ff. 13–122, 126–127, 133–134, 136–141) and Leroy 10D1m (ff. 123–125, 128–132, 135, 142–156, 158–159).
The text on ff. 14–15 is in two columns.
Hand(s)
Copied by three scribes: A (ff. 14–122, 126–127, 133–134, 136–141), B (ff. 123–125, 128–132, 135, 142–156, 158–159), and C (ff. 157 and 160; line 1 on f. 161r).
Decoration
There are full-page miniatures on ff. 1v–2r, 3r, 4r, 5r, 6r, 7r, 8r, 9v, 10v–11r, 12r, and a gilded and painted headpiece on f. 13r.
Empty space was left for a headpiece on f. 16r supra. Scribe A drew a coloured interlace headband on f. 14r. Scribe B drew in red ink headbands on ff. 132r, 155r, and 158r.
There is a drawing for the game of nine men’s morris on f. 1r.
Three entries added on ff. 161r–162r, 162r-v, and 162v–163v by three different hands respectively on 11 February 1397, ca. 1400, and in March 1402 record donations made to the convent. The scribe of the first entry signed his name as Demetrius Balsamon (RGK I, 91). Christian Gastgeber (cit. below) tentatively attributes the third one to the hand of George Eugenicus (PLP 6188).
Binding
Binding (sixteenth-century) of blind-tooled brown leather over squared and grooved wooden boards. The boards are flush with the book-block. Two pins, only the upper one of which now remains, were inserted in the edge of the upper board; there are traces two leather thongs once attached to the lower board. The spine is smooth; the endbands raised. The paper pastedowns have no watermarks. The endpapers at the back (ff. 164–165) contain two anchor watermarks very similar to Piccard online no. 119041 (attested in 1572) and to Mošin no. 1542 (attested ca. 1550–1560); chain-distance 28 mm.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Bequeathed by Sir George Wheler (1651–1724), who acquired it in Athens in February 1676: Paris, BnF, Fr. 9467, f. 35r.
Record Sources
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-07: New description by Georgi Parpulov.