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A Miscellany of Texts, in Church Slavonic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Serbia, 17th century]
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A Miscellany of Texts, in Church Slavonic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Serbia, 17th century]
A charming liturgical manuscript in Church Slavonic, in exceptional condition, in an extremely rare contemporary elaborately gilt and painted Slavonic binding with gauffered and painted edges.
153 x 101mm. iii + 201 + vii leaves, complete, contemporary quire signatures throughout, 18 lines in a semi-uncial hand, headings and rubrics in red, initials in red, green, blue and silver throughout, larger decorative initials in red, green and gold, 33 coloured and illuminated initials incorporating leaves and figures, 20 illuminated headpieces, 1 unilluminated headpiece, in varying designs of interlaced strapwork, sometimes within archuitectural forms, sometimes squared, sometimes in circles, sometimes incorporating faces or animals, in colours with gold and silver, half-page opening headpiece with King David holding a scroll introducing Psalm 1 (occasional marginal staining, final few leaves slightly browned, else in excellent condition). Contemporary Slavonic binding, elaborately gilt and painted, edges gauffered and painted with flowers (lacking clasps).
Provenance: (1) Purchase inscription 29 December 1739 in Belgrade. Further inscriptions on inside upper cover and at end in Greek written in Cyrillic characters. (2) Sotheby's, 29 November 1990, lot 96.
Content: The text includes the Psalms for liturgical use; a variety of hymns; stichera for various occasions; and a service to the Mother of God. The final four leaves of the main text consist of a troparion and doxology in Greek, though in Cyrillic letters, the switch in language but not of script signalled by the Slavonic heading 'Troparion for Sunday, in Greek'.
A charming liturgical manuscript in Church Slavonic, in exceptional condition, in an extremely rare contemporary elaborately gilt and painted Slavonic binding with gauffered and painted edges.
153 x 101mm. iii + 201 + vii leaves, complete, contemporary quire signatures throughout, 18 lines in a semi-uncial hand, headings and rubrics in red, initials in red, green, blue and silver throughout, larger decorative initials in red, green and gold, 33 coloured and illuminated initials incorporating leaves and figures, 20 illuminated headpieces, 1 unilluminated headpiece, in varying designs of interlaced strapwork, sometimes within archuitectural forms, sometimes squared, sometimes in circles, sometimes incorporating faces or animals, in colours with gold and silver, half-page opening headpiece with King David holding a scroll introducing Psalm 1 (occasional marginal staining, final few leaves slightly browned, else in excellent condition). Contemporary Slavonic binding, elaborately gilt and painted, edges gauffered and painted with flowers (lacking clasps).
Provenance: (1) Purchase inscription 29 December 1739 in Belgrade. Further inscriptions on inside upper cover and at end in Greek written in Cyrillic characters. (2) Sotheby's, 29 November 1990, lot 96.
Content: The text includes the Psalms for liturgical use; a variety of hymns; stichera for various occasions; and a service to the Mother of God. The final four leaves of the main text consist of a troparion and doxology in Greek, though in Cyrillic letters, the switch in language but not of script signalled by the Slavonic heading 'Troparion for Sunday, in Greek'.
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