Verse prolog for March-August [microform], 7129 [1621].

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Verse prolog for March-August [microform], 7129 [1621].

Verse prolog for March through August. Forms a set with Mss. Hil. 437 (Sept.-Nov.) and 438 (Dec.-Feb.). Mar. (leaf 1a); Apr. (leaf 78a); May (leaf 139b); June (leaf 204a); July (leaf 266a); Aug. (leaf 313a). Inscription on leaf 375a, with the date of copying, 7129 (i.e. 1621) and a historical reference to then contemporary events: "the manuscript was copied in the year of the reign of Sultan Osman when a large army was raised to fight the Polish ("Lekhi"), but unsuccessfully. He died thereafter. In the same year Bishop Visariò„n was killed by the heathen Greeks at a meeting and it caused an uproar at the Holy Mount as had never been before". Without ornamentation.

1 v. (379 leaves) ; 31 cm.

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