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Detailed record for Egerton 3045
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| Title |
Russian Gospels, with prologues, and a menology and lectional tables (ff. 295-315), and related material |
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| Origin |
Russia (Moscow) |
| Date |
last quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Russian/Slavonic |
| Script |
Slavonic semi-uncial |
| Decoration |
5 full or 3-sided foliate borders in colours and gold (ff. 4, 12, 93, 147, 233). Foliate headpieces and large decorated initials in colours and gold at the beginning of the Gospels (ff. 12, 93, 147, 233). 8 smaller headpieces in colours and gold (ff. 4, 5v, 88, 89, 141, 143, 229, 295). Large initials in gold. Tituli, rubrics and lectional signs in gold. Initials in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
205 x 150 (150 x 95) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 315 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Embroidered covers, with clasps; edges gauffred and gilded; bright pink silk endpapers. |
| Provenance |
Coloured silk panels with decorated frames in colours (ff. 3, 11, 92, 146, 294), probably additions to the manuscript, reset in parchment frames
17th-century marginal flowers in colours and gold inserted at various places, mainly to mark important divisions of the text,
Valdemar Ebbesen, Vice-Counsul of Norway: bought in 1930 by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Notes |
Watermarked German paper. |
| Select bibliography |
'An Illuminated Russian Gospel Book', British Museum Quarterly, 5 (1930-31), 60-61.
British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1926-1930 (London: British Museum, 1959), no. Eg. 3045 [with a detailed description].
The Christian Orient (London: British Library, 1978), no. 15 [exhibition catalogue].
Ralph Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections, The Anne Pennington Catalogue, ed. by Veronica Du Feu and W. F. Ryan (London: University of London, 1988), no. 98.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), no. 139. |
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ff. 1-315 |
| Russian Gospels, with prologues, and a menology and lectional tables (ff. 295-315), and related material |
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ff. 3v-4
Headpiece |
f. 5v
Headpiece |
f. 10v
Matthew |
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ff. 11v-12
Headpiece |
f. 88
Headpiece |
f. 88v
Text page |
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f. 89
Headpiece |
ff. 92v-93
Headpiece |
f. 141
Headpiece |
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f. 143
Headpiece |
f. 145v
Luke |
ff. 146v-147
Headpiece |
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f. 229
Headpiece |
f. 233
Headpiece |
f. 302v
Flowers |
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f. 304
Flower |
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