Pauline Epistles

15th c.

parchment

iii, 122, iii' leaves

110 × 75 mm

Greek

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. LCI, SL1r–SL3v, SR1r–SR3v, RCI

Support: Western paper

Leaf dimensions: 110 × 75 mm

Folding: Octavo

Textblock

Support: Parchment

Note: The parchment is well levigate and resistent, but not too thin.

Foliation

Foliation in pencil in the upper right margin: 1-122

Collation

Textblock

Note:

Signatures: none

Catchwords: none

Layout

Locus: ff. 1–122

Columns: 1

Written lines: 19–20

Written area: 77 × 53 mm

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 1r–122r) Very neat and small (1 mm) archaizing script, a good imitation of a Perlschrift including the relaxed idiosyncracies of earlier scribes. Prominent csi in three curves. The frequent use of diaeresis is a pointer to the later date.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Two shades of red ink: a bright orange for the initials, enlarged in the margins but plain; a magenta colour for the liturgical rubrics in the margins and along the text, incl. chapter divisions.

Binding

Description:

New leather-type binding.

History

Origin

Early 15th c. origin. In Scholz (1823), the manuscript is collated as having a Constantinopolitan text.

Provenance

The codex once belonged to Biblioteca Estense, Mut. II A 14, , where it formed the second part of Mut. II A 13, ; the first part is still in Modena as Mut. Alfa. U. 2. 14, . According to Johann Martin Augustin Scholz, who visited Modena around 1820, the manuscript was still there at the time.

Acquisition

Vilhelm Lundström bought the manuscript in Munich, with the help of funding from five benefactors, and brought it home to Gothenburg University Library in 1907 (see further Kleberg (1974), p. 5).