Watermarks: similar to Briquet Ancre 557 and Main 10746 and to Harlfinger Main 30, 39, 40.

Script: Written by two scribes. The first copied ff. 1r-357v (line 2); the second completed the text. The writing of both hangs from the guide-lines.

There is no decoration except for the title and a simple initial, both in red, on f. 1r. The large spaces left at the beginning of the text and at various points within in it indicate that the codex was never finished.

Binding: ca. 1565, Venetian, according to A. R. A. Hobson. Original sewing on three double, tawed thongs presumably laced into pasteboards. The endbands are plain wound with a secondary embroidery. The spine is round and lined with coarse cloth extending onto the inside of the boards; the edges are slightly gauffered. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric borders, a foliate diamond and corner pieces with six-petalled flowers and acorns in the central panel. A red label (18th-19th centuries) has been added and the head and tail of the spine repaired.

In Greek.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 266.

Barlaam and Ioasaph. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.