Beinecke MS 302               Byzantium, s. XVI
Euchologium (in Greek)

1. f. 1r blank; f. 1vFull-page illumination (s. xix?) showing St. Basil,
St. John Chrysostom, and St. Gregory of Nazianzus, with elaborate red
border.

2. ff. 2r-23r
[Greek].
[Greek].

     Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom; F. C. Brightman, Liturgies Eastern and
Western (Oxford, 1896) v. 1, pp. 353-98.

3. f. 23v Full-page illumination (s. xix?) of the Mother of God, with an
angel swinging a censer on either side.

4. ff. 24r-53r
[Greek].
[Greek].

     Liturgy of St. Basil the Great; C. A. Swainson, The Greek Liturgies
(Cambridge, 1884) pp. 149-71.

5. f. 53v Full-page illumination (s. xix?) of Christ lying on bier, with
angel on either side offering incense, and with patriarchal cross behind
Him.

6. ff. 54r-68r
[Greek].
[Greek].

     Liturgy of the Presanctified; Swainson, op. cit., pp. 173-87.

7. ff. 68v-80v [Title:]
[Greek]  [text:]
[Greek].

     Orthodox Church, Lesser Blessing, from the [Greek].

8. ff. 81r-93r [Title:]
[Greek]: [text:]
[Greek] [?] [Greek].

     Orthodox Church, Greater Blessing, from the [Greek].

9. ff. 93v-106r [Title:]  [Greek].
[text:]  [Greek].

     Orthodox Church, Vespers for Pentecost Sunday, from the
[Greek].

10. ff. 106v-108r
[Greek]: [Greek].
[Greek].

     St. John Chrysostom, Homilia in S. Pascha (PG 59.721, 99.709) from the
[Greek].

11. ff. 108v-110v [Title:]
[Greek]....[text:]
[Greek].

     Orthodox Church, Washing of the Altar, from the
[Greek].

12. ff. 110v-115v [Title:]
[Greek].  [text:]
[Greek].

     Orthodox Church, Washing of the Feet, from the [Greek].

13. ff. 116r117r[Title:]  [Greek] [sic, pro
[Greek]].  [text:]  [Greek] [sic, pro [Greek]]
[Greek].  ff. 117v-118r blank

     Orthodox Church, Prayer.

14. f. 118v [No title; text begins:]
[Greek].

     Orthodox Church, Prayer.

15. f. 119r Arithmetical calculations and brief notes in a later hand;
f. 119v blank

     Paper (thick, with a slight shine; no watermarks visible), ff. iii (paper)
+ 119 + iii (paper), 240 x 163 (162 x 110) mm.  Written in 21 long lines; ruled
in hard point, double vertical bounding lines full length, additional pair of
double horizontal bounding lines in upper and lower margins.
     I^^9 [?], II-XIII^^8, XIV^^10, XV^^4.  Binder's quire signatures (s. xix) in
upper right hand margin, in Arabic numerals.
     Written in a large, bold minuscule by a single scribe.
     Three miniatures of good quality in Western style added later (s. xix?) on
blank folios:  f. 1v, Sts. Basil, John Chrysostom and Gregory of Nazianzus, all
in priestly vestments, in an elaborate red border; f. 23v, Mother of God between
two angels swinging censers; f. 53v, Christ on a bier, in front of a patriarchal
cross, flanked by angels swinging a censer and burning incense.  Original
decoration:  elaborate headpieces, 4- to 2-line initials with stylized florals,
plain 1-line initials and headings, all in red.
     Binding:  s. xix.  Diced brown calf, gold-tooled, with a black label.
On the spine, "LITURG. GRAEC. M. S.".

Written in Byzantium in the 16th century; early modern provenance unknown.
Collection of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827; see
Phillipps Studies v. 3, p. 56).  Acquired from
Cochran by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 6234; tag on spine and note in pencil on
first flyleaf, verso).  Purchased from L. C. Witten as a gift of the Jacob
Ziskind Charitable Trust (MS 47) in 1957.

Bibliography:  Ziskind Catalogue, p. 52.

Barbara A. Shailor