EVANGELISTARIUM GRAECE.

Vellum, 12 x 9½, ff. 199, double columns of 20 lines. Cent, ix or x, in fine late uncials, narrow and upright, standing on ruled lines. Accents and breathings original: musical notes added in red. Headings of sections in gold uncials.

Bound by Zaehnsdorf in 1903.

Purchased from Quaritch.

Collation: 18–68 (wants 3) 78 (wants 1, 4, 5, 8) 88 | gap | 910 (wants 10) 108 (wants 1) 118–138 144 (wants 4) 158 (wants 1) 168 178 (wants 6–8) 188 198 | gap | 208 218 2210 23?8 (wants 3–6) 248–268 (wants 8) 278.

The old numbering of quires (on the R. upper corner of the first page of each) is generally cut off, but quire 21 is numbered KΔ (24) and quire 24 is numbered Λ ‥, showing that there were originally over 30 quires in the volume.

The gaps occur after ff. 42, 47, 49, 51, 68, 102, 122, 138, 164, 166, 168 (a quire?), 191, 199.

There is a gap between Sept. 16 and Dec. 18 (about).

There is also a gap in April—May. The Gospels end in August 29 (Decollation of St John Baptist),

ἀκoύσας δέ ‘Hρώδης.

There have no doubt been frontispieces to all the principal divisions of the book, but these have been removed.

The surviving ornament consists of (a) a fine arched heading on f. 1, a good deal rubbed, surmounted by two peacocks, between which is a vessel, (b) a large number of handsome initials to the Gospels in gold and colour, (c) a band of ornament at the head of each month in the Menology. Those for Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec, May, are missing.