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Egerton MS 2808

Record Id:

032-001611890

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001611890

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x000188

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Egerton MS 2808

Title:

Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1497)

Scope & Content:

Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1497).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Egerton Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001611890

Is part of:

not applicable

Contains:

Egerton MS 2808, ff 1r-38r : Gospel lections from Easter Sunday up to Sunday of Pentecost, ff 3r-38r, preceded by two fragments from another Gospel…
Egerton MS 2808, ff 38r-100v : Gospel lections from Monday of the 1st Week up to 17th Sunday of the Canaanite Woman, ff 38r-100v, followed by…
Egerton MS 2808, ff 101r-179v : Gospel lections from Luke up to Cheesefare Sunday.
Egerton MS 2808, ff 180r-235v : Gospel lections from Saturday of the First Week of Great Lent up to Holy Saturday.
Egerton MS 2808, ff 236r-358r : Gospel lections of the immovable feasts, Menologion, Synaxarion, ff 236r-342r, followed by readings on various…
Egerton MS 2808, ff 358r-365r : Eothina.

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032-001611890

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

365 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff i (paper) + 100 + i + 365 + i (parchment) + i (paper).

Dimensions: 370 x 270 mm.

Ruling: 255 x 90 mm, written in two columns, 24 lines per column.

Binding: later (but pre-1600) binding of wooden boards covered with goatskin, blind-tooled, the edges flush with the leaves and deeply grooved, the upper cover originally having bosses, corner-pieces and a central plaque.

Decoration: Large rectangular headpiece in colours on a gold ground with birds and foliate decoration (f 3r). 4 large rectangular headpieces in red, with interlace or foliate patterns, one also with brown and a cross (f 236r) (ff 38r, 101r, 180r, 236r). Large initials in red with penwork decoration, or in brown with penwork decoration and a bird (f 129v). Simple headpieces in red. Rubrics in gold and red.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Messrs. Jani Maffuriades & Co., bought by the British Museum, 24 July 1897, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).

Source of Acquisition:

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=2753&CollID=28&NStart=2808].

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1894-1899, London 1901, pp. 554-555.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 3, p. 1287.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 88.

[C. H. Talbot], 'Cistercian Manuscripts in England', Collectanea Ordinis Cisterciensium Reformatorum 14 (1952), pp. 208-12, 264-77 (p. 272).

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 309.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Jani Maffuriades & Co., fl 1897