Acts and Epistles Lectionary; first half of the 11th c.

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Title

Acts and Epistles Lectionary; first half of the 11th c.

Shelfmark

Lincoln College MS. Gr. 4

Date

first half of the 11th c.

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

1. (fols. 16r–107v) Readings (from the Acts and Epistles) for the movable feast cycle: the beginning and end are lost, so that the first partly extant reading is for Monday of Week 2 (after Easter) and the last partly extant one is for the first Sunday of Lent.

2. (fols. 7r–14v) Readings for the feast days from 4 December through 6 January: beginning and end lost.

3. (fol. 15r–v) Readings for the feast days from 8 through 11 May: beginning and end lost.

4. (fols. 2r–3v) Readings for the feast days from 15 through 31 August: beginning lost.

5. (fols. 3v–6v) Readings for various occasions: εἰς ἐγκαινία ναοῦ, εἰς σχῆμα μοναχοῦ, εἰς σεϊσμόν, εἰς ἀσθενοῦντον, εἰς κοιμηθέντας.

6. (fols. 6v.1r) List of readings for the feast days of various categories of saints: apostles, prophets, etc.

7. (fol. 1r–v) Προκείμενα ἑωθινὰ ἀναστάσιμα τῷ ἐυαγγελίῳ, i.e. sixteen matutinal prokeimena (introductory Psalm verses, two in each of the tones) for Sunday readings from the Gospels.

8. (fol.1v ) Προκείμενα ἑωθινὰ τῶν ἑορτῶν, i.e. matutinal prokeimena in Tone IV for readings from the Gospels for the great feasts: Birth of the Virgin, Dormition and other Marian feasts, Elevation of the Cross, Christmas, etc. (end lost).

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

i+107+ileaves

Hands

Copied by a single anonymous scribe.

Decoration

There are headbands on ff. 1r-v, 3v, 6v, 11r, 67r, and 105v.

A painted initial letter marks the beginning of each reading.

Binding

Binding (probably eighteenth-century) of marbled paper over pasteboard. The endpapers and pastedowns contain no watermarks. The spine has been replaced in the twentieth century.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by Sir George Wheler (1651–1724) , who acquired it during his journey to Greece in 1675–1676.

Provenance

Entry by an untrained hand in the upper margin of f. 5r: Μανόλης του Αβράμη ετες το βυβληω.

Ownership note in calligraphic handwriting of the fourteenth or fifteenth century in the upper margin of f. 66r: Τούτο τὸ βιβλί ον ἐστιν Ιωάννουτου Τριναβιότου καὶ εἴ τις ἱερεὺς τ ὸ λάβῃ | καὶ ὁδιγή τὸν ὁ Θεὸς ἀς τὸν μνημονεύει.

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