Accession number
MS M.1070.4
Object title
Excerpts from the Evangelists.
Created
between 1375 and 1400
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Freudenheim, in memory of Otto F. Ege, 1985.
Description
1 leaf (2 columns, 23 lines) : paper, ill. ; 307 x 218 mm
Provenance
Otto F. Ege (1888-1951), Cleveland, Ohio.
Notes
Ms. Evangelists excerpts leaf, written and decorated in the Byzantine Empire, late 14th century.
Title, date of composition, place of composition, language, and script from Ege.
Decoration: written in brown ink; marginal symbol in red.
In a portfolio with the collective title on the preliminary leaf: "Fifteen original Oriental manuscript leaves of six centuries, twelve of the Middle East, two of Russia and one of Tibet from the collection of, and with notes prepared by, Otto F. Ege, late dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio;" this portfolio consists of 1 prelim. leaf and 15 individually matted original leaves with an explanatory caption accompanying each leaf; forty numbered sets were formed by Ege (1888-1951), and published shortly after his death; the Morgan Library & Museum has copy no. 29.
Title, date of composition, place of composition, language, and script from Ege.
Decoration: written in brown ink; marginal symbol in red.
In a portfolio with the collective title on the preliminary leaf: "Fifteen original Oriental manuscript leaves of six centuries, twelve of the Middle East, two of Russia and one of Tibet from the collection of, and with notes prepared by, Otto F. Ege, late dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio;" this portfolio consists of 1 prelim. leaf and 15 individually matted original leaves with an explanatory caption accompanying each leaf; forty numbered sets were formed by Ege (1888-1951), and published shortly after his death; the Morgan Library & Museum has copy no. 29.
Script
cursive Byzantine script
Language
Greek
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