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Office of Holy Communion
Title
Office of Holy Communion.
Created
Byzantine Empire, [ca. 1325]
Physical Description
1 scroll : parchment ; 426 x 16 cm.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Notes
Script: archaizing scribal hand.
Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns.
Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece.
Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou.
Schøyen MS 662.
In Greek.
Provenance
Formerly owned by the monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos; ex libris Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Phillipps MS 3889; Schøyen Collection MS 662. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Access and use
Restricted fragile material. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
Summary
Manuscript scroll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the Greek Orthodox Office of Holy Communion, a series of prayers, hymns and verses intended for private recitation before, during and after taking communion. Text includes prayers attributed to Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Basil the Great.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
November 08, 2011
References
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados, Office of Holy Communion. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados, Office of Holy Communion. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Byzantine Empire - 14th century.
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