Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 Froben, Johann, d. 1527. bkp Oecolampadius, Johann, 1482-1531
Published / Created:
1516]
Call Number:
MLh691 +b516
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Bible. N.T. Greek. 1516.
Description:
"The earliest published edition of the New Testament in Greek."--Hist. cat. of printed Bibles, no. 4591., BEIN MLh691 +b516 Copy 2: Variant copy. 32 cm. In the 2d count, p. 215 misprinted 126 (misprinted 216 in the preceding variant), and p. 419, 620, 625 misprinted respectively 434, 670, 675 (numbered correctly in the preceding variant)., Epistles of Paul bound in after first p. 324., Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns., and Printer's mark on t.-p. and at end; dedications within ornamental borders; head pieces and initials (part in red).
Publisher:
in ædibus I. Frobenij,
Subject (Topic):
Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul--Greek and Bible. N.T. Greek--Versions--Erasmus
Manuscript scroll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the Greek Orthodox Office of Holy Communion, a series of prayers, hymns and verses intended for private recitation before, during and after taking communion. Text includes prayers attributed to Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Basil the Great.
Description:
Formerly owned by the monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos; ex libris Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Phillipps MS 3889; Schøyen Collection MS 662. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011., Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou., Script: archaizing scribal hand., Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns., and Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece.
Lord's Supper (Liturgy)--Texts, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders