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| Title |
Psalter |
| Origin |
Russia |
| Date |
16th century |
| Language |
Russian (Church Slavonic) |
| Script |
Cyrillic |
| Decoration |
1 decorated headpiece (f. 2). Large initials in plain red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 100 (125 x 75) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 164 (+ 1 leaf after f. 1; + 1 paper and 1 original flyleaves at the beginning, and 1 original and 1 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Inscription in Russian (f. 1).
Inscribed 'Ex dono Will(hel)mi Skinner Armig(?)' (f. 1).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 3833-4014 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 3947 [available in The British Library Manuscripts Reading Room]. |
