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Hymnal (MS M.350).

Accession number
MS M.350
Object title
Hymnal (MS M.350).
Display Date
ca. 1600.
Created
Balkan Peninsula or Russia, ca. 1600.
Binding
Greek 17th-century dark brown calfskin over wooden boards, with flap and plain metal clasp.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
208 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 150 x 100 mm
Provenance
Guillaume Libri; his sale (London, Sotheby's, Mar. 31, 1859) to Stewart; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Martini in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. hymnal; written and decorated ca. 1600, possibly in the Balkans in a Greek monastery or in Russia.
Text: hymns for the principal feasts of the Orthodox Eastern Church year as sung in Constantinople.
Decoration: decorative headpiece of fol. 1; marginal ornaments, musical notations.
Script
cursive
Language
Greek
Century
Classification