Manuscripts

Theotokarion, in Greek : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-220v. Greek. Apparently incomplete, with ff. 217-220v a sixteenth or seventeenth century addition; ff. 221-223v, added in the 15th century, lists, each headed by the name of a village:ποταμία, σλατήνα, βανήα, λιόπρασο, κούρσοβο, λάρισσο, δέσιανι; f. 224r-v, scrap used as pastedown, now lifted.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1250 and 1299]
Call number: mssHM 1047
Provenance: Written probably in the second half of the thirteenth century. Among the villages in the list (see below) is Δέσιανα, possibly to be indentified with Dečani, in modern-day Yugoslavia: in the fifteenth century the book may have been in that area. Modern tipped-in slip from a Byzantine liturgical text between ff. i-ii. Was n. 37 (this number in pencil on f. i) in a modern German catalogue. Alien sequestrated property sale by Anderson, New York, 17 February 1919 n. 46 to G. D. Smith. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.

Book of Hours, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-220v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-10v: full calendar in Dutch; f. 10r-v: computistic notes; ff. 11-40: Hours of the Virgin, in the Middle Dutch compilation of Geert Grote; ff. 40v-42v: Prayers to the Virgin; ff. 43-59v: Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; ff. 59v-60v: Prayers to God and Christ, with indulgences; loss of one leaf between ff. 60-61, with resulting loss of text; ff. 61-78: Long hours of the Cross, beginning imperfectly due to loss of the leaf between ff. 60-61; ff. 78-91v: Prayers on the Passion of Christ; ff. 92-106v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 106v-107v: Prayers to Christ; ff. 108-176v: Prayers for the sanctorale; ff. 177-184v: Prayers for Communion; ff. 184v-188v: Prayers to Christ and to God the Father; ff. 189-216v: Office of the Dead, use of Utrecht; ff. 216v-220v: Prayers with indulgences.

mssHM 1127

Book of Hours, fragment : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-10v. [Book of Hours] ff. 1-9v: Commendation of souls; ff. 9v-10v: Prologue in English and a suffrage of Erasmus, added in a late fifteenth/early sixteenth century cursive hand.

mssHM 1159

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-229v. [Book of hours]: [f. 1, blank], f. 1v, almanac for 1513-1530. ff. 2-13v, calendar with standard entries in red and major feasts signified by blue or gold. ff. 14-19v, pericopes of the Gospels. ff. 20-54v, prayers (some in French) for various occasions (many related to the morning) and suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, James the Greater, Christopher, Claude, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Mary Magdalene. ff. 55-127, Incipiunt hore intemerate dei genitricis marie secundum usum romanum, with suffrages of All Saints, hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit worked in [f. 127v blank]. ff. 128-147, prayers (many related to the evening). ff. 147-154v, weekly variations of the psalms at matins for the hours of the Virgin. ff. 155-163v, Advent office for the hours of the Virgin. ff. 164-168v, prayers relating to the names of God and of Christ. f. 169, image, verses and prayer in French on the Memento Mori theme. ff. 170-174v, 10 commandments, 7 sacraments, 7 virtues and vices, 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit, 7 beatitudes, 10 virtues of the Virgin, all in French. ff. 175-193, penitential meditations in French. ff. 193v-194v, images and verses in French, contemplating death. ff. 195-205v, devotional meditations in French. ff. 206-217, narratives in Latin and in French pertaining to prayers of a certain pope, of St. Albert, of Master James of Pavia. ff. 217-221v, the standard three prayers in French to God the Father, two to Christ. ff. 222-224v, devotional readings in French and in Latin about fasting and other virtuous behaviors. [f. 225 blank], ff. 225v-226, image across the opening of Christ carrying the cross with the help of the poor, the ill, the thieves and so forth [f. 226v, blank]. ff. 227-229v with a final note apparently relating the years by Golden Number to agriculture.

mssHM 1088

Gospels in Greek : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Vol. 1, f. 1 blank; f. 1v. [Miniature of Matthew]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 2-4; f. 4v blank. [Chronicle]. Greek. On added leaves, a chronicle, similar in part to that of Hippolytus of Thebes, from the creation to ca. 1250; printed from this manuscript by E. J. Goodspeed, "The Bixby Gospels," University of Chicago Historical and Linguistic Studies in Literature related to the New Testament ser. 1, 2 (1915) 123-52. Transposed in binding, folios 2 and 3. Vol. 1, ff. 5-11; ff. 11v-12 blank. [Menology]. Greek. Menology, 1 Septermber-31 August, but with loss of 2 leaves after f. 6 containing 12 December-22 January. Vol. 1, ff. 13-14. [Gospel readings]. Greek. List of gospel readings for Saturdays and Sundays in Lent. Vol. 1, ff. 14-20. [Synaxarium]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 20v-21. [Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 21-22v. [Eusebian canon tables]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 23-24v. [Κεφάλαια for Matthew]. Greek. Ὑπόθεσις of the gospel of Matthew; printed in H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Text gestalt (Göttingen 1913) I:1, p. 314 [120]; Κεφάλαια (68) for Matthew; four verses in honor of Matthew: ματθαίου τοδε ἔρχου . . . βροτὸν αὐτὸν ἐόντα; printed in von Soden, I:1, p. 373, 5; note added in a modern hand, τετραευάγγελον μονῆς τοῦ παντοκράτορος καὶ σωτῆρος χριστνῦ τὸν ἐν τῶ ᾄθω. Test of transliterated Greek: tetraeuángelon monē̃s toũ pantokrátoros kaì sōtē̃ros khristnũ tòn en tō̃ áͅthō Vol. 1, ff. 25-124v. [Gospel of Matthew]. Greek. Gospel of Matthew in 357 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; cf. Goodspeed, p. 128. Vol 1, ff. 125-127v. [Κεφάλαια for Mark]. Greek. Vol. 1, f. 125, ruled, but blank; f. 125v, full page miniature of Mark; f. 126, ruled, but blank; ff. 126v-127v, Κεφάλαια (48) for Mark. Vol. 1, ff. 128-196v. [Gospel of Mark]. Greek. Gospel of Mark in 234 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 2v-5v. [Κεφάλαια for Luke]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (83) for Luke; f. 5, blank; f. 5v, full page miniature of Luke. Vol. 2, ff. 6-118. [Gospel of Luke]. Greek. Gospel of Luke in 340 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 118v-119v. [Κεφάλαια for John]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (18) for John; f. 119: Miniature of John; f. 119v, ruled, but blank. Vol. 2, ff. 120-210v. [Gospel of John]. Greek. Gospel of John in 232 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia. On ff. 153-154v, pericope, John 7, 53-8, 11, added in the thirteenth century; collated by Goodspeed.

Sermones : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-122v. [Antonius Azaro de Parma]. Sermones. Latin. ff. 123-126v. [Sifridus, abbas S. Crucis]. [Four sermons]. Latin. Four sermons commemorating a soul, of which only the first is attributed to Sifridus. On ff. 127-128v, an added sermon. Back pastedown. Latin. Added prayers to St Livinus: (i) "Dextera tua quesumus [...] per intercessionem beati livini martiris tui atque pontificis ... eripiat. Per ..."; (ii) "Deus quidam(?) ... sancti livini martiris tuis atque pontificis ..."; (iii) "Deus qui es vigo(?) ..."; (iv) "Tribue quesumus omnipotens et misericors deus intercessionibus beati livini martiris tui atque pontificis ..."; and miscellaneous notes including "stadium est spacium ccor. xxv pedes" (?) and pen-trials. 1 item. [Donatus]. [Ars minor]. Latin. Contains part of the section De nomine, with a red initial at "Magister nomen appellativum ...". This fragment serves as spine-lining for the main codex; it is conjoint with the front pastedown.

mssHM 58203

Bible : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

f. 1v miniature; ff. 2-489; f. 489v blank. [Bible]. Latin. ff. 2-367v, Old Testament; ff. 368-462v, New Testament; ff. 463-489, Interpretations of Hebrew Names. Bible with 85 prologues; text includes the prayer of Manasses, and 3 Ezra followed by the Psalms (Pss. 69 and 85:4 through 87:6 not copied, apparently because of scribal error) and 7 Old Testament and 2 New Testament canticles; prayer of Solomon after Ecclesiasticus.

mssHM 1080

Theotokarion, in Greek : [manuscript]

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