Princeton University, 85.22
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3210
- Shelfmark:
- 85.22
- Title:
- Funeral Service in Greek and Arabic
- Orthodox Eastern Church
- Date:
- between 1000 and 1199
- Language:
- Greek and Arabic
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 73 leaves : parchment ; 134 x 109 (98 x 68) mm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Hiersemann, Karl Wilhelm, 1854-1924
Mettler-Specker, Arnold, 1867-1945
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Paper ; fols. 72 ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 11-15 long lines per page ; Greek text with Arabic translation in parallel columns.
Description: Written by one scribe in black ink ; titles and initials in red ; the Arabic text was probably written by two different but contemporary hands in black, with titles in red ink.
Decoration: decorated headpiece for the funeral canon for monks (fol. 38r); decorated headpiece for the funeral canon for women (fol. 52r).
Origin: Probably written in Egypt or the Holy Land in the 11th or 12th century.
Sold in 1922 by Leipzig-based antiquarian, book seller, and publisher Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann (1854-1924) to the collector Arnold Mettler-Specker (1867-1945) and deposited for a while in the University Library of Zurich under the shelfmark Or. 85. Purchased by H.P. Kraus in 1948 at auction from Sotheby's & Co. Since some manuscripts of Katalog Hiersemann 500 demonstrably came from the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9937633593506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e6acc067-1ac1-4a84-b47c-5e015cb972a6/manifest
- Holding Institution:
