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Add MS 31919
- Record Id:
- 032-001616505
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001616505
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x0001cc
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- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 31919
- Title:
- Menaion for February and the Royal Hours for Holy Friday, a palimpsest
- Scope & Content:
- Menaion for February and the Royal Hours for Holy Friday. A palimpsest: the volume is made up of a number of different manuscripts, namely a theological work written in the 12th century, and Gospel manuscripts (Gregory-Aland 0133, 0269, 0271, 0272, 0273, 0297, l 334; Scrivener Υ or Codex Blenheimius, evst. 282; von Soden ε 83).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-001616505
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- Contains:
- Add MS 31919, ff 1r-94r : Menaion for February, ff 2r-94r, preceded by an almost erased fragment with the Martyrdom of Sts Cyrian and Justine, ff 1r-v.
Add MS 31919, ff 94v-108v : Royal Hours for Holy Friday.
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- 032-001616505
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 110 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_31919 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1431
- End Date:
- 1431
- Date Range:
- 1431
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 110. Two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end. ff 109-110 are 19th-century notes on the manuscript on ruled paper.
Dimensions: 330 x 260 mm.
Ruling: 230 x 80 mm, written in two columns, 30 lines per column.
Binding: 19th century binding.
Scribe: Ἰωάννης Χορτασμένος, Repertorium 1A, no 191, signing as Ἰγνάτιος Μητροπολίτης Σηλυβρίας. See also Add MS 36823, another menaion, possibly one volume of a series of menaia that Ἰγνάτιος had copied.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
From the Library of the Dukes of Marlborough, formerly Blenheim MS 3.D. 13.
- Former External References:
- Blenheim 3. D. 13
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased at Puttick's Sale (from the Sunderland Library, lot 3252), 17-27 April 1882.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_31919].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1882-1887, London 1889, p. 7.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884), pp. 314-50 (p. 339).
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, I, pp. 165-66, 348.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-09, I, pp. 79, 416, III, p. 1207.
H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, I, p. 129
A. Ehrhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche von dem Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16 Jahrhunderts (TU 50-52), 2 vols, Leipzig 1938, II, p. 368.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, pp. 53-54.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, pp. 31, 41, 42, 44, 239.
D. Parker, Manuscripts, Texts, Theology. Collected Papers 1977-2007, Βerlin 2009, p. 36.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)