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Excerpt from The Toronto Gospels
The codex consists of 226 leaves, in twenty-nine quires. These are made in the usual Greek manner, with eight leaves in each quire, except the 14th (of six) and 23d (of four), and are numbered in the lower left hand corner of the first recto. The leaves measure cm. 13 by The parchment is not very thin, and the book with its thick board covers makes a stout little volume 8 cmm. In thickness. There is appended to it a group Of five quires, four of 7 and one Of 6 leaves, or 34 in all, in scribed in a much later hand with the synaxarium and the menology. There are three coarse parchment ¿y leaves, one at the beginning and two at the end of the whole, which thus contains 263 parchment leaves. The writing is in single columns, in the gospels of 18 lines. The lines are carefully ruled, the writing depending from the lines. The margins contain the section and canon numbers, and the chapter numbers and titles. There are frequent marginal initials in gold over red. A later hand has added lection numbers and titles and, at the upper right - hand corner of each recto, the name of the evangelist.
The manuscript is not dated in the first hand, but a comparison with facsimiles of dated Greek cursives in the Bibliotheque Nationale published by Omont strongly favors a date toward the close of the eleventh century, or early in the twelfth. The hand Of the Paris Psalter dated 1070 (bibl. Nat. MS grec 164) closely resembles that of the Toronto manuscript, which must have been written in the same general period.
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