farfel_n06_127_464

464
Maggs
London June '97
50L = $82.74

Greek manuscript leaf on paper - folio. - late 14th - 15 Century?
Written in a clear rounded Greek script in
black ink on 23 lines in an area of 21.5x14cm.
one 2 line and one one line initial also in red.
Outer margin frayed.

See #323 Greek Gospel Lectionary - probably 2nd part,
the Menologion (Sanctorale) in which extracts
from the Gospels were arranged in the order that
they were to be read through the year on Church
feast days + saint's days. Only the beginnings
of extrancts from Gospels were given in the
Menologion, when the full text could befound
in the 1st part, the Synaxarion.
Text - John 12:34 - John 12:50
Matthew 26:6 and a direction to the
reader where to find what follows in this
portion of Matthew's text.
The 2 column format is typical of such
lectionaries.

The conservative script is of a type frequently
used at this date (late 14th C or sometimes later in
the 15th C) for such liturgical texts as lectionaries.
It includes features characteristic of the
h+degon script, so called after the monastery
of that name in Constantinople where it was
developed + practiced, most notably by the
scribe Ioasaph in the 2nd half of the 14th C.