Extent:
[227] leaves. Note:
Collation: i¹, ii⁶ [-1 and -2 with text loss], iii [8 misplaced
as f. 97], iv-xii⁸, xiii², xiv¹, xv⁸, xvi⁷ [1 misplaced as
f. 1], xvii-xxi⁸, xxii⁶ [-2 and -6 with text loss],
xxiii-xxiv⁸, xxv¹, xxvi-xxxi⁸, xxxii⁴ [-4, -5, -7, and -8
with text loss]. No quire signatures.
Two modern sets of foliation added in pencil.
Original order of folia: [2-22, 97, 23-96, 98-105, 217-218, 216,
219-227].
Dry-point ruling.
In columns; 21 lines per page.
Illuminated initial at the beginning of each Gospel reading.
With ekphonetic notation in red ink written above the Gospel texts,
consistent with an 11th-century creation.
Maniculus on leaf 98r.
Modern binding of tight, light brown leather over wood, with three
raised bands and modern parchment pastedowns.
Folios damaged throughout by a purple residue, the results of a
bacteria from [now inactive] mould interacting with the collagen of
the parchment; text unaffected.
Purchase; Les Enluminures; 2011; MS.12.015.
One of a group of codices from the Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre
in Constantinople (Metochion MS 444), the most famous of which is
the "Archimedes Palimpsest". Previously owned by Salomon
Guerson. Subject:
Bible--Gospels--Greek--Manuscripts
Evangeliaries--Texts
Lectionaries--Texts
Musical notation--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Greek--Byzantine Empire
Manuscripts, Medieval
