Mich. Ms. 24: The Four Gospels and Acts: cover

Item Data

Date

<Constantinople>, end of the 13th or first quarter of the 14th century CE.

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, 101-107. Plate 2.42a.

Description

Mich. Ms. 24. The repair cloth crosses the spine, a coarser weave than the thin, fineweave silk fragments visible on the front and back covers.

Euthymios Zigabenos, Panoplia dogmatica, excerpt.
Athanasios of Alexandria, Syntagma ad quondam politicum (spurius), excerpt.
Gregory of Nazianzos, Carmina dogmatica, excerpts with interlinear paraphrasis.
<Euthalios>, Preface to the Acts.

Format

135 x 93 x 50 mm. Wooden boards, 5 mm. thick, with the grain running horizontally, covered by blue silk.