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Date: 1714? Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Manuscript codex.;Title of text 1 from text, leaf 7b; title of text 2 from colophon, leaf 214b ("ashraf" erroneously spelled "ashrāf").;Physical description: 7 lines per page, written in large maghribī script, on glazed, laid European paper. Fully vocalized in red, yellow, and green. Keywords in red or green. Text framed in double red lines. Catchwords; some marginal notes. Manuscript has been trimmed. Leaf 1b has pasted label, and leaves 2a, 3a-4a, 215b-220b contain prayers written by different hands. Arrow-shaped pieces of paper of varying colors pasted in the margins (apparently as bookmarks) of leaves 6a, 8a-b, 24a-b, 31a-b, 34a-34b, 65b, 77a-b, 101a-b, 108a-b, 110a-b, 121a-b, 133a-b, 145a-b, 186a-187b, 189a-190b, 214a-b. Leaves 1a, 2b, 4b-6a, 187b-189a, 215a, 222a-223b blank. Some insect damage and smudging; cover partially detached.;Decoration: Opening page of text (leaf 6b) has yellow border with statement of responsibility set within a box framed in green, red, and yellow; mandala of the same colors in margin. Chapter headings similarly styled (leaves 65a, 77a, 101b, 133a, 145a). Schematic diagrams of the shrines at Mecca and Medina in yellow, brown, red, and green on leaves 31b-32a.;Text 1 (leaves 6b-187a) is al-Jazūlī's well-known collection of prayers for the Prophet, including those associated with the pilgrimage to the Prophet's tomb in Medina. Text 2 (leaves 189b-214b) is al-Būṣīrī's Qaṣīdat al-Burdah, a well-known poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad.;Red leather Islamic binding with flap; gold-stamped central diamond consisting of four octofoils, with pendants and corner octofoils; tooled fillets. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: ʻUtbī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār, -1035 or 1036, author and عتبي، محمد بن عبد الجبار،-1035 or 1036 Date: 1206 and 0602 Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Manuscript codex.;Title from colophon, leaf 54b.;Physical description: 21 lines per page, written in naskh script, on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Partially vocalized. Section headings and most marginal notes in red. Catchwords. Some insect damage.;Explicit: وقبح [الله مـ]ن عمره على زيادة الاثام ومسآة الانام جيازة الملام [ويرحـ]م الله عبدا قال آمينا;A history of the Ghaznavid ruler Yamīn al-Dawlah Maḥmūd ibn Subaktakīn, 971-1030 (hence the title of the work) and his father Nāṣir al-Dawlah Sabuktakīn (died 997) who ruled in parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Punjab; incomplete at the beginning. Front cover detached.;Modern half leather with marbled paper boards. Label on front cover reads "Tārīkh-i yamīnī-i ʻUtbī. " View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Tzigalas, Matthaios, 1586-1654, author Date: 1648/1699? Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Manuscript codex.;Title from preface on leaf 1b.;Physical description: 20-23 lines per page, written in naskh script in brown or black ink on glazed, laid European paper. Chapter headings in large script; overlining, section headings, and punctuation in red. On rectos, name of ruler written in black ink. Catchwords. Edges sprinkled with red ink. A few crossouts and marginal notes. Occasional damp staining and smudging; a few leaves partially detached.;Incipit: فاتحة الكتاب والله المهدي الى الصواب الحمد لله الواحد الابد والازلي قبل كل الدهور الدايم بدوام ملكه بعد ساير العصور;A history of the rulers and patriarchs of Byzantium, translated into Arabic from Greek, beginning with Constantine I (r. 324-337) and ending with Murād IV (r. 1623-1640), translated in 1648 (leaf 3b).;European-style binding, black morocco with raised cords. Gilt-stamped central design consisting of four fleurons around a small octofoil and small stars; gilt-stamped pendants; stamped floral border and corner fleurons. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Damianos Guidotes (Scribe), scribe Date: 16xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title from caption title on fol. 1r.;Written by Damianos Gidotes and his unidentified scribe. Cf. Duke Greek MS 30, Organon of Aristotle, also by the scribe Damianos Gidotes and his unidentified scribe.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 29-31 lines; unruled.;Script: Written in two hands in various shades of black ink, the scribes alternating throughout the entire text. Written in a minuscule with uncial initials, occasionally ornamented.;Origin: Venice, Italy? Several other manuscripts written by Damianos Gidotes are known, all from the library of San Francesco della Vigna.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Discourse on logic; the introduction refers to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics.;Binding: Modern paper over boards. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Brunck, Rich. Fr. Phil. (Richard François Philippe), 1729-1803, scribe Date: 1769 Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Title from head of text (fol. 1);Colophon (fol. 79r): Hunc sedulo et quanta potui diligentia exscripsi Parisiis ineunte anno 1769 Richardus Franciscus Philippus Brunck Argentinensis.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 29-33 lines.;Script: A modern script, clear, with spaces between words; no abbreviations, in a light black ink. Transcribed by Richard Franc̨ois Philippe Brunck in Paris, A. D. 1769.;Title cataloged from existing description.;A transcription of the 743 epigrams of the Codex Regius Graecus 2742 (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, GK. 2742), with variant readings and a few notes in Latin. Commentary in Latin appears in the right margin.;Binding: Unbound from previous binding of brown calf, gilt spine, red morocco title-label (housed with leaves). View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 Date: 11xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript leaves.;Titles from opening rubrics.;Layout: Written in 2 columns of 33 lines; 33 lines ruled with a dry point on the hair side across the full width of the leaf; pricking marks are not visible.;Script: Written in a very regular roundish, smooth flowing hand, letters mostly connected, except where an omicron appears in either the medial or initial position; pendant in brown ink with a rather wide reed pen. The letters slant slightly in the direction of the line of writing with no spacing between words. There are very few uncial letters and none are enlarged abnormally.;Decoration: On fol. 1v at the point in the text to which the reference is made is an outlined penwork initial "A" in red ink with knotted stems and leaf arm in the middle margin. On fol. 2r where Homily 40 on Genesis commences is an ornamental penwork band in red ink, with the width of the column (15 x 75 mm) consisting of running leafy acanthus scrollwork which forms within the running patterns three palmettes shapes, all within double ruled frame with corner trefoil finials. The initial letter phi in red is formed of a compass drawn circle (20 mm in diameter) the inner side with running acanthus leaf pattern, resting on a cone-shaped pedestal supporting the central stem of the letter which had foliate bands, topped by a slender two-part folial finial anchored to the lower by a bud the pointed end of which emerges opposite the end of the stem of the phi inside the top of the circle.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Two leaves with fragmentary portion of at least Homilies 39 (Patrologia Graeca 53, 359) and 40 (PG 53.568) on Genesis; originally used as binding for a book containing Demosthenes in Greek, the name preserved in the space covering the spine. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church and Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379 Date: 1xxx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript leaves;Titles from opening rubrics (fol. 1r; fol. 3v).;Layout: Written in 2 columns of 30 lines; 30 lines ruled with a dry point on the hair side. Because the leaves have been trimmed to fit the codex as endleaves, all pricking marks have been cut away.;Script: Written in a regular, open, rounded cursive hand, not very large, with a slightly rightward slant, the scribe mixes uncial and minuscule letters and uses small accents and square breathings and the iota adscript.;Decoration: Decorative penwork between the homilies (red ink for penwork and title). Decorated initial with red and blue colors.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Saint Basil's Homily 19 on the Holy Martyrs and Homily in Lacizis. Two bifolia attached at the spine edge, having served as endsheets in a binding. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: GermanosII, Patriarch of Constantinople, 1175?-1240 Date: 15xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript codex.;Titles from heads of Greek and Latin texts.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 35-39 lines; the text is not ruled for either the Greek or Latin sections, however, the margins of the Greek text have been ruled with pencil.;Script: The Greek hand is that of a modern scholar in a flowing open hand. Title in minuscule.;Title cataloged from existing description.;Sermon on the Annunciation in Greek followed by a Latin translation.;Binding: Bound in vellum over boards; title in ms. on spine: Germanus Patriarcha in Annunc. B. Mariae Graece Manuscr.; endleaves with "Pro Patria" watermark and counter mark of "C & I Honig" very nearly the same as that in Heawood "Pro Patria" 3697 (1724-1726). View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Creator: Orthodox Eastern Church Date: 15xx Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University);Format: Manuscript gathering.;Titles from opening rubrics.;Layout: Written in 1 column of 25 lines; ruled consistently on the verso of the leaf using a mastara.;Script: Written in a strong round bouclé hand with letters vertical but slanting slightly in the direction of the writing; with clear and distinctive accents and breathing marks in a dark brown ink. There is a mixed usage of uncials and cursives. The hand has many characteristics of those found in Duke Gk. MS. 81.;Decoration: Red penwork of the initial letter and penwork ornamentation on fol. 1r. Ornamental marginal initials average one to the page. Red ink appears to have been used for the title and dates which appear in the upper margins.;Title cataloged from existing description.;fol. 1r-3v: Life of Alexius for March 17; fol. 4r-8v: Life of Sophronius by Ioannes Zonara for March 11; watermark of an anchor encircled and surmounted by a six-pointed star, and two letters ("P-B") and surmounted by a trefoil (similar to Briquet 9619 (the letters) and 523 (the anchor)). Bound out of order (correct order: fol. 4-8, 1-3).;Binding: Around a single signature, the pamphlet binding is of dark brown paste paper over light-weight binder's boards. Two blank endsheets, added by the binder, bear the mark "G. Fichtner Nachf." Also preceding the text is a sheet that appears to have been inserted at the time of the binding on which is pasted a square of graph paper with the handwritten title label in black ink: "Manuscrit Graec. /[double rule]/ XVI Siècle." View Full Item at Duke University Libraries -
Date: 1582/1614 and 0990/1023 Contributing Institution: Duke University Libraries Description: Manuscript codex.;Title devised by cataloger.;On leaf 1a, title of text 1 given as Kitāb Dūrar in Arabic script.;Physical description: 27-28 lines per page, written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq on glazed, laid European paper. Overlining and section headings in red; rubrication lacking in text 3. On leaf 2a, quotations and a magic square. Table of contents for text 1 on leaves 2b-5a. Quotations on inheritance law on leaf 307b. Prayer on leaf 308b. Quotation on Āyat al-Kursī, inheritance law, and other religious topics on leaves 309b-311a. Copious marginal notes. Foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals begins on leaf 14a. Leaves 5-22 appear to be replacements. Leaves 298b-299a, 308a, 309a, 311b blank. Heavy damp staining on first few leaves, but text legible. Front cover and leaves 1-30 detached.;Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع القويم بمحكم كتابه;Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله رب العالمين . . . قال القاضي الامام شهاب الدين ابو حامد محمد بن محمود . . . اني علمت في الفرائض اصلا مختصرا ليهدي حفظه الى بيان نصيب كل وارث;Incipit (text 3): الحمد لله الذي بين بكتابه فرائض الدين القويم وعين بخطبه لوازم سهام صراط المستقيم;Full brown leather Islamic binding; blind-stamped central mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Peach paper doublures. Spine repaired. View Full Item at Duke University Libraries