Seymour gospels
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Description
- Title
- Seymour gospels
- Published / Created
- [between 1000 and 1050]
- Publication Place
- Byzantium
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment in two volumes. Vol. 1: Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Begins in the middle of Matthew 5.17. Volume 2: Gospels of Luke and John. Both volumes exhibit the same physical format and were clearly bound together at an earlier date
- Description
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In Greek.
Script: Written by a single copyist in minuscule script, with headings and tables of chapters in uncials; writing runs through guide-lines rather than sitting on them.
Full page portraits of Mark, Luke, and John; all are depicted on gold. Mark holds a codex in his left hand and touches his chin with the right. Luke (f. 3v, Vol. 2) writes in an open codex he is holding in his lap, while John (f. 87v, Vol. 2) holds a scroll bearing the opening phrases of his gospel. Illuminated headpieces and ornamental initials in gold with stylized foliage, before each book (except Mark); red initials at beginning of first, tenth, and twentieth lines of text.
Bindings: Volume 1, ca. 1904. Vellum case, gold-tooled. Volume 2, 1961. Orange goatskin gold-tooled, bound by Sidney Cockerell. - Provenance
- Vol. 1: The Gospel of Matthew was purchased by Professor Thomas Day Seymour in 1903. Professor Seymour then purchased the Gospel of Mark from a second unidentified source. The two portions were bound together by him in modern vellum, ca. 1904. The volume passed to his daughter, Mrs. George C. St. John in 1914 and was then presented to Yale by Mrs. St. John and her family in 1947. Vol. 2: Purchased by H. P. Kraus in 1960 from Sotheby's. Bought by Yale in 1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund.
- Extent
- (Vol. 1) ff. i + 117 + i ; (Vol. 2) ff. i + 148 + i : 172 x 139 (114 x 78) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 150
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
- Container / Volume
- Vol. 1
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Byzantine Empire 11th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Bible. Greek
Bible. N.T. Gospels
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Byzantine Empire > 11th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Seymour Gospels. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9797737
- Object ID (OID)
- 2012438
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