1450 MS 195 Germany, ca. Opening volume for September, with lives of the saints in the version compiled ca. 960 by Simeon Metaphrastes. 1410, goatskin over stout oak boards, sewn on 7 double thongs, with goatskin chemise, now trimmed and folded over inside boards, with text 2 as pastedown. Sam Fogg, London.
Chemise bindings are rare.
For another chemise binding, see MS 692 . Sam Fogg, London. The scribe Gabriel Uric of the Monastery of Neamtu is known from the colophons of MSS between 1424 and 1447. He was the initiator of a school of calligraphy, manuscript illumination, orthography and literature which copied Middle Bulgarian versions of Church Slavonic literature. These manuscripts maintained the continuity of Bulgarian literature after the Turkish suppression of the Bulgarian and Serbian states.