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Record Id:

032-001612710

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032-001612710

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Add MS 26103

Title:

Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland e 697; Scrivener evan. 601; von Soden ε 1389)

Scope & Content:

Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland e 697; Scrivener evan. 601; von Soden ε 1389).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Add MS 26103, ff 2r-70v : Gospel of Matthew.
Add MS 26103, ff 71r-114v : Gospel of Mark.
Add MS 26103, ff 115r-187v : Gospel of Luke.
Add MS 26103, ff 188v-242v : Gospel of John, ff 189r-242r, preceded by a portrait of St John the Evangelist and his disciple Prochoros, f 188v,…

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

242 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of 13th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff (v) + 242 + (iv).

Dimensions: 205 x 155 mm.

Ruling: 140 x 100 mm, 25 lines per column. Leroy 12D1.

Script: Minuscule in rectangular epsilon style: Canart (1981)

Binding: Red leather, 19th century.

Decoration: Decorated headpieces and initials (ff 2r, 71r, 115r, 189r). Illuminated portrait of St John the Evangelist and Prochoros, f 188v. Titles and initials of chapters in gold.

Custodial History:

Probably created in the first half of the 13th century: assigned by Carr (1987) 105-112 to the "interregnum subgroup" of the "decorative style" class of Byzantine illuminated manuscripts.

Likely of Palestino-Cypriot origin, given the script (Canart 1981) and illumination (Carr 1987).

f 242v contains a number of erased inscriptions, including one presumably by the scribe: τέλος ἐν θ(ε)ῶ τοῦ τετρα/βαγγέλου.

Purchased by the British Museum on 14 January 1865 from C. L. Merlin, Vice Consul at Athens. Found in a village near Corinth (f 1r).

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1861-1875, London 1877, p. 251.

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1, London 1894, p. 260.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, p. 213.

H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 47.

P. Canart, 'Les écritures livresque chypriotes du milieu du IXe siècle au milieu du XIIIe et le style palestino-cypriote "epsilon"', Scrittura e civiltà 5 (1981), pp. 17-76 [reprinted in P. Canart, Études de paléographie et de codicologie, 2 vols, Vatican City 2008, vol. 1 pp. 677-736], pp. 40, 45, 72, 74.

A. W. Carr, Byzantine Illumination 1150-1250: the study of a provincial tradition, Chicago 1987, pp 105-112, no. 66, fiches 9D7-9D12.

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 88.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

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