Mich. Ms. 30: The Four Gospels: front cover

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Date: <Northern Greece>, dated by colophon May 31, 1430.
Item Source: Julia Miller. Tradition and Individuality: Bindings from the University of Michigan Greek Manuscript Collection. Introduction by Pablo Alvarez. With contributions by Kyle Clark. Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021, 136-141. Plates 2.59.
Description: Mich. Ms. 30. Front cover of pieced brocade with what appears to be a pattern of intentional holes drilled through the board along the head, fore, and tail edges.

Niketas Seides, Conspectus librorum sacrorum, excerpts.
Niketas David Paphlagon, In Lucam evangelistam.
St. Athanasios of Alexandria, Quaestiones ad Antiochum Ducem (spurius), excerpt.
Excerpts from patristic commentaries (John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Olympiodoros of Alexandria, Neilos of Ankyra, Gregory of Nyssa, et al.).
Format: 198 x 140 x 105 mm. Wooden boards, 12 mm. thick, with the grain running vertically. The exposed back board shows tool marks, covered with cloth, brocade, the dominant colers being red, yellow, blue, green, and metal (silver) thread.