Heirmologium, ca. 1515

Title

Heirmologium, ca. 1515

Shelfmark

Lincoln College MS. Gr. 8

Date

c. 1630

c. 1515

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper folded in 12°. Flower watermarks similar to Piccard Blatt-Blume-Baum2013–2014 (attested in 1514), chain-distance 38 mm. – Ff. 162–167 are folded in 8° and have anchorwatermarks with GCcountermark similar in part to Mošin 1512 (attested in 1639) and 2169 (attested in 1626), chain-distance 30 mm.

Physical extent

i+167leaves

Hands

Produced by a single anonymous scribe – except that ff. 162–167, which were added ca. 1630, are the work of Hieromonk Cyprian, who signed his name in a cryptogram on f. 167r: πχκϡϟθνλω ϟε|ϡλξλνθυλω λ ζθτθω, i.e. Κυπριανος ιερομοναχος ο γ ραψας. This is evidently the same Cyprian who copied in 1632 Mt Athos, Iberon, 892. – The text on ff. 1r-v and 3v–5r is not original to the manuscript.

Decoration

The scribe drew in red and/or brown ink ornamented headbands on ff. 7r, 38v, 67v, 92r, 114r, 124v, 139v, and 148v.

Binding

Binding (seventeenth-century) of blind-tooled light-brown leather over pasteboard. The covers are flush with the book-block; the spine has no ridges; traces remain of two leather ribbons.

Acquisition

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