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New York Cruciform Lectionary (MS M.692).

Accession number
MS M.692
Object title
New York Cruciform Lectionary (MS M.692).
Created
Constantinople, mid 12th cent.
Binding
Previously in dark brown morocco with stamped Byzantine-style tools; transferred by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1947 to dark brown cape levant over boards, blind-tooled to a cruciform band design on back.
Credit line
Purchased from Mitchell Kennerly, 1925.
Description
293 leaves (1 cruciform column, 22-23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 335 x 233 mm
Provenance
Owned by the Church of St. George in the Cypresses in Constantinople in the 19th century (inscriptions on fol. 1 and 2 in 19th-century script; that on fol. 2 dated Apr. 1835 stating that Patriarch Konstantios II assigns it inalienably to this church); purchased from Mitchell Kennerley in Oct. 1925.
Notes
Ms. Gospel lectionary and menology; written and illuminated in Constantinople, mid 12th century.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures (Evangelist portraits); 37 marginal mininatures; 4 ornamental title pages.
The illumination of M.692 is unfinished. The full-page miniature on fol. 214r has not been completed; four marginal illustrations (on fols. 64v, 94v, 225r, 284r) have not been completed.
Contents
Fols. 1r-213v: Lections for movable feasts, daily in John, Saturday and Sunday only in Matthew, Luke and Mark -- fols. 214r-289r: Menologium -- fols. 289v-293r: Resurrection Gospels -- fol. 293v: Blank.
Script
cursive script
Language
Greek
Classification