Kenneth Willis Clark Collection

The Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University contains over one hundred manuscripts — in both roll and codex form — dating from the 9th to the 17th century.

The collection as a whole is named in his honor and includes manuscripts collected and donated by Kenneth Clark as well as manuscripts acquired from other sources.

Professor Harvie Branscomb of the Duke Divinity School bought a manuscript of the Greek New Testament in a Munich bookshop.

Ms. 85 (ℓ 451), is signed by Clement the Monk who dated it on 20 July, indiction 5, in the year 6560 [i.e., AD 1052].

This signature makes it one of the earliest dated Greek lectionary manuscripts.