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Acts of the Apostles and Revelation

Title
Acts of the Apostles and Revelation.
Created
Flanders (?), [between 1500 and 1550]
Physical Description
ff. 96 : paper ; 143 x 95 (103 x 69) mm.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Notes
Mutilated watermarks consisting of column (?) flanked by fleur-de-lis.
Script: Written by a single person in a small neat minuscule script.
Initial on f. 1r painted in blue and outlined in red. Illuminated initial on f. 65r in gold, on blue square serving as background; partial border at bottom of page: pink flowers in gold rectangle outlined in black. Running titles throughout.
Binding: Probably ca. 1530. Bruges (?). Sewn on four single, tawed thongs laced twice in and out of pasteboards. The tawed cores of the beaded endbands are also laced twice. Half bands divide the end sections of the spine. The book-block is remarkably clean and the leaves flat. Covered in brown calf with panel stamps of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael in arches with a line of dancing figures and a piper in between. Heavily repaired.
In Greek.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 4527). Purchased from Laurence Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of the Acts of the Apostles and Revelation.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 45, no. 246. Ziskind Catalogue, p. 47. K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments, v. 1 (Berlin, 1963) p. 200, Gregory Nr. 2619 (where MS 246 is dated to 18th century).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 246.
Acts of the Apostles and Revelation. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Acts of the Apostles and Revelation. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Flanders (Belgium) - 16th century.
Citation