GA L206 & L2308

Holding Institution or Individual

Christ Church (Oxford)

Shelf Number

Wake 13

Date

1000–1099

Material

Exterior Condition

Light brown leather on board. Gold frame design with gilded lines and floral patterns on front and back. Spine contains decorative gold floral patterns, with five raised bands. Spine labelled Lectionarium Evangelium in gilded letters. Baseboard is visible on all corners of the boards on front and back. Scratchings on the leather can be found on front and back. Modern label reads Arch. W. Gr. 13. Slight damage to headband.

Interior Condition

Marbled paper sheets attached to interior of front and back cover. ff. 3-8 have suffered damage to the outside corners. f. 17 is in fragile condition. ff. 23-24 have a piece cut out from the centre. f. 25 has holes. f. 35 is fragile, cut along the ruling pattern. ff. 44-45 outside corners are torn f. 50 has hole through text in lower outside edge. f. 57 is torn at upper inside edge. f. 60 has a hole through text on first column. f. 94 has a hole through the text in the upper portion of the first column. f. 98 is fragile at the bottom. f. 101 outside corner is torn. f. 103 outside corner is torn. f. 163 is torn on the outside corner. f. 194 is detached from Quire 25 at the top and middle. ff. 195-196 are loose and held to the Quire at the bottom. f. 218 is cut at the bottom.

Additional Codicological Comments

Three paper flyleaves numbered i-iii. i (verso) contains the following in black ink: Arch. W. Gr. 13 Codex MS Aedis Christi Oxon. continet 1. fragmentum Evangelistarium literis uncialibus, seculi forsam novi 2. Evangelistarium seculi undecimi: v. Montfaucon Palaeog. Gr. p. 291. ii(rv): Table of Contents in Latin iii is blank on recto side. Verso side contains the same information found in point 1 on page i. Pages iv-vii: Lectionary Gospel fragment. Folio count: i-iii + iv-vii (fragment) + 255 + i Page iv. contains a note in pencil indicating that Montfaucon records this information on p. 233. ------ GA L2308 Lectionary Gospel Fragment found on iv-vii. Four lections, the first and last of which are incomplete: Luke 21:36; Matt. 25:31–46; Matt. 6:1–13; Matt. 6:14–18 (incomplete) 2 columns with 21 lines f. 1. torn at bottom right corner with hole in center. f. 2 missing entire outer margin due to trimming. Phonetic notation in red ink throughout. Enlarged ektheses in red ink. Begins with lection from Matthew for Sunday of Ἀποκρέου. Five lines extant from previous lection, presumably for Saturday. Outside Height: 283mm Inside Height: 280mm Top Width: 198mm Bottom Width: 194mm Date: 800-899 -------- GA L206 Script is a large minuscule similar in style to a late eleventh/twelfth century Italo-Greek style. Phonetic notation in red ink. Ink has faded on some leaves but remains visible. Foliation in modern hand at upper right corner. f. 103v has a seventeen-line scribal note. Paratexts and Ornamentation Ornamented headpiece with flower patterns in Blue and Green with matching ektheses on f. 1r. Titles and identifiers written in liturgical majuscule with gold ink. Ektheses in GA L206 vary in style. Folios 254r–255r: material added by later hand--supplements missing content from 11 Resurrection Gospels.

Columns

2

Script

Majuscule and Minuscule

Number of Pages

0