[Gospel of St. Mark].

Item Info

Title:
[Gospel of St. Mark].
Alternative Title:
Bible. Mark, I, 1-14. Byzantine Greek. 1300.
Date:
circa 1300
Description:

  • Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

  • Format: Manuscript leaf.

  • Title from de Ricci.

  • Layout: Written in 1 column of 22 lines.

  • Script: Greek uncial and minuscule.

  • Decoration: Rectangular headpiece (63 x 117 mm.) with center quadrafoil medailion enclosing the evangelist seated, writing, with four circles in each corner in blues, greens and reds; inital letter "A" entwinted and floriated.

  • Title cataloged from existing description.

  • A single leaf containing the first fourteen verses of the Gospel of Mark in Byzantine Greek, with a portrait of the Evangelist.

Subject:
Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)
Format:
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Extent:
1 leaf :parchment, illuminations ; 234 x 167 mm
Digital Collection:
Early Manuscripts collection
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • Call number: Greek MS 004
  • 006019594
  • duke:178820
  • emsgk01005
  • ark:/87924/r3dz0354k
  • 6a3cd17f-a072-4788-ab67-98edec0a3e96
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