Robert Garrett collection of Church Slavic manuscripts, circa 18th century
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Church Slavic
- Compiled/Created:
- circa 18th century
- Description:
- 2 v. 18.9 x 12.0 cm 20.5 x 12.0 cm
- Linking notes:
- Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
- Summary note:
- 2 unpaginated volumes from Russia of the Four Gospels in Church Slavic, with prefatory texts and tables. Volume 1 has decorative headcaps in gold, red, and blue, and marbled endpapers; gilt-edged; volume 2 has blind-stamped losenge-shaped decoration on the front cover and a spine title in Latin: "Quatuor Evangelia."
- Binding note:
- Volume 1 is bound in red morocco; the second volume is vellum bound.
- Provenance:
- Previously owned by Robert Garrett (1875-1961), Princeton Class of 1897.
- Source acquisition:
- Gift of Gift of Robert Garrett, Class of 1897, 1942.
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