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The Gabriel Millet Collection
Millet No.: 1.S663.2
Egypt, Janūb Sīnā', Mount Sinai, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Library of the Monastery of Saint Catherine
early 12c.
Serpent
Initial
Maximianus I
Initial A composed of Maximianus I, Emperor and serpent.
The codex contains twelve saints' lives and fifteen relevant texts and homilies by John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great.
Weitzmann, K., & Galavaris, G., Mount Sinai: Greek Manuscripts, I (1991), cat. no. 43; pp. 119-122; figs. 398-404; color pl. XIXb
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