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• Manuscript scroll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the Greek Orthodox Office of Holy Communion, a series of prayers, hymns and verses intended for private recitation before, during and after taking communion. Text includes prayers attributed to Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Basil the Great.
• Formerly owned by the monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos; ex libris Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Phillipps MS 3889; Schøyen Collection MS 662. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
• Script: archaizing scribal hand.
• Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns.
• Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece.
• Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou.
• Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados, Office of Holy Communion. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Monē Docheiariou (Athos, Greece)
• Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
• Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders.
• Lord's Supper (Liturgy) -- Texts.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Byzantine Empire -- 14th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
• Schøyen, Martin
• Monē Docheiariou (Athos, Greece)