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Record Id:

032-001615535

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032-001615535

MDARK:

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Add MS 28815

Title:

New Testament, imperfect (Gregory-Aland 699; Scrivener evst. 603; von Soden δ 104)

Scope & Content:

New Testament, imperfect (Gregory-Aland 699; Scrivener evst. 603; von Soden δ 104).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

302 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0930

End Date:

0970

Date Range:

Mid 10th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff 75 + (ii) + 302.

Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm.

Ruling: 185 x 105 mm, 30 lines per page.

Binding: Bound in wooden boards covered with velvet and lined on the inner sides with embroidered silk. Forming a border round the upper cover are silver-gilt plates worked with figures, of post-Byzantine date but probably based on a 14th-century template: Rhoby (2012). The plates at the top and bottom have half-length figures of the four Evangelists (in the order John, Mark, Matthew and Luke) as well as the Apostles Peter and Paul. The plates on the sides depict scenes from the life of St Demetrius, according to Rhoby (2012), arguing against Walter (1970) who identified them as showing the overthrow of the heretics Nestorius and Noetus. Three inscriptions accompany the plates, though only two are now intact, the first reading Βάλλει κατὰ γῆς τὸν παλαμναῖον Νέστωρ/ ἔχεις, ἀθλητὰ, σῆς ἀριστείας ἄθλον; the second κτείνεις νοητὸν σταυρικῷ τύπῳ μόνῳ. The fragmentary third inscription is reconstructed by Rhoby (2012) as ΚΤΥ Τ?ΟΝ / ΚΟ?Κ ΥΠ / ΧΜ ΤΡ / Σ. In the centre of the cover is a gilt plate worked with a Deesis (the figures of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist), the nimbuses enamelled, and, above and below, the symbols of the four evangelists and cherubim.

Decoration: Illuminated head pieces and initials. Illuminated portraits of St Luke, ff 76v and 162v, and St John the Evangelist, f 126v. Two stubs of purple vellum leaves before f 76r, which contained the table of chapters for the Gospel of Luke in gold letters. For conservation reasons only one of these stubs could be photographed for Digitised Manuscripts (f 75*r-v).

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean, Constantinopole.

Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914), Welsh industrialist: acquired in Janina.

The last quires of the book (now Egerton MS 3145, previously Burdett-Coutts MS II. 4) were purchased separately in Janina in 1864 by the Rev. Reginald Barnes for Angela Georgina, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and presented by her to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, Highgate.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, 11 November 1871.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean, Constantinopole.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_28815]

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1861-1875, London 1877, pp. 558-559.

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, I, pp. 260-261.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, I, p. 213, III, p. 1110.

H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, vol. 1, p. 105.

H. I. Bell, 'A Greek New Testament Re-United', British Museum Quarterly 13 (1939) pp. 9-10.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 49.

Byzantine Art, A European Art, catalogue of the ninth exhibition held under the auspices of the Council of Europe at the Zappeion Exhibition Hall, Athens 1964, no. 293.

The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1936-1945, London 1970, I, pp. 337-38 [Eg. 3145].

J. Walter, 'Heretics in Byzantine Art', Eastern Churchse Review 3 (1970) pp. 40-49 (pp. 47-48, fig. 5).

T. S. Pattie, Manuscripts of the Bible: Greek Bibles in the British Library, London 1979, p. 31.

Splendeur de Byzance, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, Brussels 1982, no. M6.

Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton, London 1994, pp. 136-137.

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

K. Weitzmann, Die byzantinische Buchmalerei des 9 und 10 Jahrhunderts (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften 243), revised edn Vienna 1996, p. 20, figs 136-39.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 280-281.

P. Orsini, 'Genesi e articolazioni della "maiuscola liturgica"', in The Legacy of Bernard de Montfaucon: Three Hundred Years of Studies on Greek Handwriting. Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium of Greek Palaeography (Madrid-Salamanca, 15-20 September 2008) (Bibliologia 31A & 31B), edd. A. Bravo García and I. Pérez Martín, 2 vols, Turnhout 2010, vol. 1, pp. 17-35 (p. 29).

A. Rhoby, 'Zu den Szenen aus der Vita des heiligen Demetrios auf dem Einbanddeckel des neuen Testaments in der British Library (Add. Ms 28815)', Byzantinische Zeitschrift 105 (2012) pp. 131–41.

Exhibitions:

Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Guest, Ivor Bertie, 1st Baron Wimborne, industrialist, 1835-1914

Related Archive Descriptions:

Egerton MS 3145