![]() ![]() Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Format: Manuscript gathering. Two bifolia attached at the spine edge, having served as endsheets in a binding.įorms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Saint Basil's Homily 19 on the Holy Martyrs and Homily in Lacizis. Title cataloged from existing description. Decorated initial with red and blue colors. Decoration: Decorative penwork between the homilies (red ink for penwork and title). Script: Written in a regular, open, rounded cursive hand, not very large, with a slightly rightward slant, the scribe mixes uncial and minuscule letters and uses small accents and square breathings and the iota adscript. Because the leaves have been trimmed to fit the codex as endleaves, all pricking marks have been cut away. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 30 lines 30 lines ruled with a dry point on the hair side. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Format: Manuscript leaves Titles from opening rubrics (fol. Orthodox Eastern Church and Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379įorms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Two leaves with fragmentary portion of at least Homilies 39 (Patrologia Graeca 53, 359) and 40 (PG 53.568) on Genesis originally used as binding for a book containing Demosthenes in Greek, the name preserved in the space covering the spine. The initial letter phi in red is formed of a compass drawn circle (20 mm in diameter) the inner side with running acanthus leaf pattern, resting on a cone-shaped pedestal supporting the central stem of the letter which had foliate bands, topped by a slender two-part folial finial anchored to the lower by a bud the pointed end of which emerges opposite the end of the stem of the phi inside the top of the circle. 2r where Homily 40 on Genesis commences is an ornamental penwork band in red ink, with the width of the column (15 x 75 mm) consisting of running leafy acanthus scrollwork which forms within the running patterns three palmettes shapes, all within double ruled frame with corner trefoil finials. 1v at the point in the text to which the reference is made is an outlined penwork initial "A" in red ink with knotted stems and leaf arm in the middle margin. There are very few uncial letters and none are enlarged abnormally. The letters slant slightly in the direction of the line of writing with no spacing between words. Script: Written in a very regular roundish, smooth flowing hand, letters mostly connected, except where an omicron appears in either the medial or initial position pendant in brown ink with a rather wide reed pen. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 33 lines 33 lines ruled with a dry point on the hair side across the full width of the leaf pricking marks are not visible. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Format: Manuscript leaves. View Full Item at Duke University Librariesįorms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. ![]() Red leather Islamic binding with flap gold-stamped central diamond consisting of four octofoils, with pendants and corner octofoils tooled fillets. Text 2 (leaves 189b-214b) is al-Būṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-Burdah, a well-known poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad. ![]() Text 1 (leaves 6b-187a) is al-Jazūlī's well-known collection of prayers for the Prophet, including those associated with the pilgrimage to the Prophet's tomb in Medina. Schematic diagrams of the shrines at Mecca and Medina in yellow, brown, red, and green on leaves 31b-32a. Chapter headings similarly styled (leaves 65a, 77a, 101b, 133a, 145a). Decoration: Opening page of text (leaf 6b) has yellow border with statement of responsibility set within a box framed in green, red, and yellow mandala of the same colors in margin. Some insect damage and smudging cover partially detached. Leaf 1b has pasted label, and leaves 2a, 3a-4a, 215b-220b contain prayers written by different hands. Fully vocalized in red, yellow, and green. Physical description: 7 lines per page, written in large maghribī script, on glazed, laid European paper. Title of text 1 from text, leaf 7b title of text 2 from colophon, leaf 214b ("ashraf" erroneously spelled "ashrāf").
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