[Greek Gospels]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Greek Gospels]
Classmark: MS 2285
Creator(s): McLeish, Charles (1949-)(Binder); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)(Former owner); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)(Former owner); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)(Former owner); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor(Former owner)
Publication city: Byzantine Empire
Date(s): 10th century
Language: Greek
Size and medium: [285] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/749772
Description
Manuscript in Greek Minuscule on parchment, containing the text of the Gospels, with lectionary divisions in margins. Imperfect: wanting numerous leaves and with some sections of the text supplied later in manuscript on paper leaves, interpolated into the original structure: leaves 74, 75, 216, 217, 234, 235, 240, 241, 243, 244, 246 and 247. Some leaves repaired with paper and the text supplied in a later hand. Decoration: Retaining two Canon tables (fol. 1) out of a possible 14. Decorative headpieces filled with geometric and floral patterns to the openings of the Gospels: fols. 84r, 133r, 222r. With a later drawing of Saint Matthew with the opening of Matthew's Gospel written across his open book, fol. 2r. Leaf size: 162 x 130 mm, text frame: 120 x 95 mm.
Referenced in: Private pleasures : illuminated manuscripts from Persia to Paris: the collection of Denys Spittle (Cambridge : Fitzwilliam Museum, [2007]) pp. 7-9. Potten, Edward, 'From Byzantium to Alberto Sangorski: Treasures from the Thomas Edward Watson Collection at the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds', The Book Collector, Autumn 2023, pp. 1-16 (p. 4).
Features
Twentieth-century full goatskin over wooden boards; blind tooled with repeating borders; sewn onto four raised supports; spine direct-lettered in gilt: Greek Gospels MS. Xth. Century; rear turn-in signed: C. & C. McLeish [i.e.: the bindery run by Charles McLeish (1859-1949) and his son, Charles McLeish Jnr. between 1909 and 1949].
Provenance
Provenance: Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Thomas Edward Watson St. Mary's Lodge Newport Mon. [i.e.: Sir Thomas Edward Watson (1851-1921)], thence Sir Geoffrey Watson (1897-1961), Daphne Southwell [Watson] (1907-1998); Stanley Denys Trevor Spittle (1920–2003). Accepted in lieu of Estate Duty by H M Government and allocated to Special Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds Libraries, 2022.
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