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Mich. Ms. 30: The Four Gospels: the evangelist John

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Item Data

Date
<Northern Greece>, dated by colophon May 31, 1430.
Item Source
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann. Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (with the collaboration of Pablo Alvarez). Vol. 1. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021, 77-83. 
Description
Mich. Ms. 30. Fol. 306v; full page miniature depicting the evangelist John; note the wide frame elaborately ornamented with a vegetal design; the background is bright blue with the inscription, 'Ο ἅγ(ιος) Ιω(άννης) ὁ Θεολόγος (St. John the Theologian).

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
Paper, 424 fols; 197-198 x 140 mm.