Menaeum; ca. 1510
Lincoln College MS. Gr. 27
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Menaeum; ca. 1510
Shelfmark
Lincoln College MS. Gr. 27
Date
ca. 1510
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper folded in 4°, Hand watermarks similar to Mareș 1614 (attested in 1512), chain-distance 33 mm.
Physical extent
i+142leaves
Hands
Produced by a single anonymous scribe, who wrote on f. 140v: Δόξα σοι ὁ Θεὸς 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.
Binding
Binding (probably eighteenth-century) of marbled paper over pasteboard. The endpapers and pastedowns contain no watermarks.
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Sir George Wheler (1651–1724), who acquired it during his journey to Greece (1675–1676).
Provenance
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.
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