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1. Add MS 8245

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PRAYER BOOK; late 17th or early 18th cent. Russian Church Slavonic. Prayers, mostly by St. Ephraim, the Syrian, ‘for those who wish to take up arms against the self-will which originates in their passions and pleasures’. The headings are: ‘Lamentation for Tuesday evening’ (f. 2); ‘Lamentation for Wednesday evening’ (f. 25v); ‘Lamentation for Thursday evening’ (f. 37v); ‘Lamentation for Friday evening’ (f. 49); ‘Lamentation for Saturday evening’ (f. 60); ‘For the same day and the same hour’ (...
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Bindings: Blind-tooled, dark brown leather, with gilt saltires: late 17th or early 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford (N.L./6/A): bef. 1817. Prayers and Devotions: Liturgies CHURCH SLAVONIC: Manuscripts SLAVONIC: Saint Ephraim,; the Syrian: Praye...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Russian, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 19393

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LECTIONARII ex Evangeliis fragmentum; comprising lessons from Mark, chapters iv. and v., and Matth. xxiii. Slavonice. Vellum; XVth cent. Quarto. [Add. 19,393.]
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Liturgies Slavonic: Lectionarii ex Evangeliis fragmentum.: Slavonice.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Slavic languages
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 28507

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"KNIGA Stoglav," [the book of the Hundred chapters], containing the acts of The council of Moscow; A.M. 7059 [A.D. 1551]. In Church Sclavonic. Printed at London in 1860, and more fully at St. Petersburg in 1863. See also Mouravieff's "History of the Russian Church;" (Oxford, 1842), p. 103. Paper; xviith cent. In the original tooled leather binding. Quarto.
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City of Moscow: Acts of the council of: 1551.: Church Sclavonic. Bindings RUSSIAN: Stamped leather: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Slavic languages
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 38782

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THE FOUR GOSPELS, in SIavonic, with tables of and the prefaces of Theophylact prefixed to the several Gospel's, and indications of lections for liturgical use in the margins, and synaxaria at the end. Paper; ff. 608. 10 in. x 71/4 in. XVI cent. Ornamental headpieces in gold and colours at the beginnings of the Gospels, together with silk covers for the full-page miniatures (now missing) of the Evangelists. Old blind-tooled leather binding with oval centrestamp and panel enclosed by lines and...
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Bindings SLAVONIC: Leather, blind-tooled: 16th cent. Bible SLAVONIC: Gospels: 16th cent. includes: ff. 5 b, 174, 287, 450 Theophylact, of Bulgaria: Prefaces to the Gospels: 16th cent.: Slavonic. ff. 13, 181, 296, 457 ART. ILLUMINATIONS AND DRAWINGS SLAVONIC: Gospels: headpieces in gold and co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Slavic languages
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 39583-39671

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PARHAM MANUSCRIPTS. These eighty-nine MSS., 39583-39671, were bequeathed, with Oriental MSS. 8729-8855, by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917), having been part of the collection formed at Parham, co. Sussex, by the Hon. Robert Curzon, afterwards 14th Baron Zouche, as the result of his travels in the Levant, etc., in 1833 and later. A copy of his Catalogue of Materials for Writing, ... Rolls and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books (1849), with manuscript additions, accompani...
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Parham MSS: Collected at Parham House, co. Suss., by R. Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (d. 1873) and bequeathed by Darea, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917). Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche: Notes by.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, Flemish, French, Greek, Modern, Irish, Latin, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
[800-1899]
Extent:
89 items

6. Add MS 41087

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LIVES OF SAINTS, in Slavonic, combined from three distinct MSS. to form a menology for the month of January. One MS. is represented by artt. 1 and 6-9, another by artt. 2, 3 and 5, the third by art. 4. Fragments left stranded in the process of amalgamation have been cancelled (cf. ff. 114 b, 189, 222 b, 240) and in one instance at least (f. 150 b) rewritten in the new position. The numbers with which the Lives are equated below are those of the Greek originals in the Bibliotheca Hagiographic...
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Slavonic MSS: Lives of Saints: 15th cent. Saints: Lives of saints for January: 15th cent.: Slavonic. Liturgies Slavonic: Menologian for. January: 15th cent. ART. ILLUMINATIONS AND DRAWINGS SLAVONIC: Menologion for January : head-pieces and initials in red: 15th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Slavic languages
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 57524

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Title:
BASIL THE GREAT: Instructions for the Clergy, etc., with the Liturgy of Gregory the Theologian (f. 121); Rumania, first half of 17th cent. Rumanian translation and Bulgarian Church Slavonic in the hand of Michael Moxa (signed, ff. 37v and 67). See R. Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (1988), no. 86; D. Deletant, 'Un manuscris al lui Mihail Moxa diu Muzeul Britanic', Revista de Istorie si Teorie Literará 24 (1975), pp. 255-262; for Moxa, see...
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Bindings RUMANIAN: Blind-stamped Greek-style binding: first half of 17th cent. Liturgies CHURCH SLAVONIC: Michael Moxa, Rumanian translator and scribe: Saint Basil,; of Caesarea; 'the Great': Instructions to the Clergy, etc., by Basil the Great, copied and translated by Michael Moxa: first half...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Bulgarian, English, Romanian, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
1st half of 17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 57525

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SERVICE BOOK OF THE OLD BELIEVER SECT: services for Palm Sunday with hooked musical notation without staves; [Northern?] Russia, early 19th cent. Church Slavonic. See R. Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (1988), no. 87. The volume may be identified as an Old Believer manuscript on the basis of the staveless notation. The adherence to a corrected spelling and black priznaki, rejected by more extremist Old Believer groups following reforms du...
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Bindings RUSSIAN: Red leather over boards, with gilt stamping of Christ in Majesty: early 19th cent. Liturgies CHURCH SLAVONIC: Art. Illuminations and Drawings RUSSIAN: Noted Service Book of the Old Believer Sect: early 19th cent.: Slavonic.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Slavic languages
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 57728

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THE CHUDOV GOSPELS: from the Chudov monastery in the Kremlin, Moscow; early 16th cent. Church Slavonic. See R. Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (1988), no. 88. Minute notes at the foot of the rectos of ff. 2-7 record the gift of the book in 1591 by the priest-monk Nifont of St. Catherine's to his heir, the monk Nifont of Surozh, of the Chudov monastery to place upon the altar of St. Alexei's church there. The book left Chudov during the tr...
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Russia General: Liturgies CHURCH SLAVONIC: Art. Illuminations and Drawings RUSSIAN: monastery of Chudov; Moscow, the Kremlin: The Chudov Gospels: early 16th cent.: Slavonic.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Slavic languages
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 57915

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STOGLAV, or 'Hundred Chapters': the record in Slavonic of the proceedings of the Church Council at Moscow, 1551; copy, early 19th cent. Russian Church Slavonic (with strong vernacular influence), with notes in Russian, Latin and Greek. See R. Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (1988), no. 89. Library stamp 'Bibl. Academ. Dorpatens' (f. 1). Transferred from the Dept. of Printed Books, from a collection presented by V. Truscott, Esq., May 1973...
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Bindings RUSSIAN: Blind-stamped binding with cyrillic script and clasps: early 19th cent.: Slavonic. Church History: Liturgies CHURCH SLAVONIC: Art. Illuminations and Drawings RUSSIAN: Stoglav: early 19th cent.: Slavonic: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Slavic languages
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item