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MS. Canon. Gr. 122

Summary Catalogue no.: 18575

1. fols 2r–87v

Gospel of Matthew preceded by a list of chapters with indications of parallel passages and the prefaces of Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria.

2. fols. 89v–143v

Gospel of Mark preceded by a list of chapters with indications of parallel passages and the prefaces of Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria.

3. fols. 144v–234v

Gospel of Luke preceded by a list of chapters with indications of parallel passages and the prefaces of Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria.

4. fols. 235v–299v

Gospel of John preceded by a list of chapters with indications of parallel passages and the prefaces of Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria.

5. fols. 300r–305r

List of Gospel readings for the moveable feasts.

6. fols. 305r–310r

List of Gospel readings for the immoveable feasts.

7. fols. 310r–310v

List of Gospel readings for weekdays.

8. fols. 310v–311v

List of Gospel readings for various occasions.

9. fol. 311v

Table of Gospel and Epistle readings for the weeks of the Octoechos Cycle.

10. fol. 312r

List of Prokimena before Gospel readings for Sundays of the Octoechos Cycle.

Colophon: Inscription recording that the manuscript was written in 1429 for Alexander I, Voivode of Moldavia.

Language(s): Church Slavonic and Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 314 + i leaves,

Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 220 mm.

Foliation: Arabic numbers

Collation

I⁸(4 + 1), II ⁸-X⁸, XI⁸(4.5 bound as 5.4, 6+1), XII⁸-XVII⁸, XVIII⁸( ±5), XIX⁸-XXI⁸, XXII⁶, XXIII⁸-XXIX⁸, XXX⁸(±2), XXXI⁸-XXXVIII⁸, XXXIX⁸ (7 + 2 -8). Quires signed, lower margin of first recto and last verso, level with outer edge of text or as running titles.

Layout

1 column for the gospels in Slavonic with the Greek text written next to it in the margin. Written space: 250 × 135 mm.

2 columns of 22 lines for all other texts. Column space:250 × 65 mm.

Hand(s)

Conservative uncial with regular diacritics for the main text, a smaller less formal uncial for colophons.

Cursive with many ligatures for the accompanying Greek text.

Decoration

Four full-page miniatures of the evangelists (ff. 6v, 89v, 144v, 235v).

Ornamental headpieces (ff. 2, 7, 87, 90, 142, 145, 233, 236, 300, 305).

Decorative initials (ff. 3, 7, 87v, 90, 145, 232v, 236).

Binding

Modern, brown leather on boards, tooled.

History

Origin: 1429 ; Moldavia (Romania), Neamţ, Orthodox monastery

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.

Record Sources

Abbreviated from Ralph Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (1988), no. 158 Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars prima recensionem codicum Graecorum continens, Quarto Catalogues I, 1883, repr. with corrections 1969).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 105

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 317

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Digital Images

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Microfilm

Microfilm available in the open shelf collections in the Weston Library (R. Films 101)

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Ralph Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (1988), no. 158

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges