Greek liturgy.

4 volumes, 4to (236 x 174mm.), Greek text, printed throughout in red and black, woodcut illustrations (some full page), woodcut devices on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, old vellum over boards, blind stamped and ruled, staining to a few leaves, spines cracking

Duke of Sussex, bookplate and his sale, Evans, 19 July 1844, lot 3234 to Leslie; Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Bibliotheca Lindesiana, bookplate; Sotheby's 5 February 1979, lot 126

Cat. Bib. Lind. III, col. 5466; Konstantinos Staikos, The publishing centres of the Greeks (2001), 29

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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the sussex-crawford copy of this rare and attractively printed edition of the greek liturgy.

The Anthologion, an abridgement of the liturgical books of the Eastern Orthodox Church, was compiled in the latter part of the sixteenth century for use by itinerant priests as a portable alternative to the full liturgy. The present series of works, which includes a Psalterion, prayers of intercession, various offices and a Menaion, was compiled by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and is longer than its predecessor. Clearly arranged, it makes extensive and effective use of printing in red. Although bound in a different order, the contents of the Sussex-Crawford Anthologion appear to tally with those of that in All Souls' library, bound in six volumes.