Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, second half of the 11th c.
Lincoln College MS. Gr. 14
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, second half of the 11th c.
Shelfmark
Lincoln College MS. Gr. 14
Date
second half of the 11th c.
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii+96+ii leaves (numbered 1–84.86–97)
Hands
Produced by a single anonymous scribe.
Decoration
The scribe drew in brown ink a wash-coloured headband on f. 1r.
Each text unit begins with an ornamented initial letter drawn in red ink.
Binding
Binding (made ca. 1710) of marbled brown leather over thick pasteboard; four protruding ridges, gilt-tooled ornamented, and title on spine. The endpapers carry a foolscapwatermark similar to Dianova 708 (attested in 1709); chain-distance 23 mm.
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Sir George Wheler (1651–1724), who acquired it at Zante on 24 May 1676.
Provenance
A note in the upper margin of f. 1 marks the book as belonging to Theophylus Corydalleus (1563–1646) .
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