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:
In Greek., Script: archaizing scribal hand., Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns., Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece., Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou., and Schøyen MS 662.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Monē Docheiariou (Athos, Greece) and Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders, Lord's Supper (Liturgy), and Manuscripts, Medieval
