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032-002024117

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Add MS 36821

Title:

Works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, with the marginal commentary of Maximus the Confessor, and additional texts relating to Pseudo-Dionysius

Scope & Content:

Works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, with the marginal commentary of Maximus the Confessor, and additional texts relating to Pseudo-Dionysius.

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Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

214 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0900

End Date:

0949

Date Range:

1st half of the 10th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff ii + 214. ff i and ii are pasted onto the inside of the upper board.

Dimensions: 275 x 185 mm.

Ruling: 115 x 110 mm, 30 lines per page.

Binding: wooden boards, covered with stamped leather, possibly 16th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Dated to the first half of the 10th century by Canart 1979, p. 346.

Colophon in three parts, written in uncial script, f 196r:

Ἐπληρώθησαν αἱ ι ἐπιστολαὶ τοῦ ἁγ|ίου Διονυσίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου Ἀθηνῶν.

Ὁ τῶν χειρῶν μου τὸν πόνον λύσας Λόγε | καὶ πταισμάτων τὸν ὄγκον λίκμησον τάχος.

Τόδε πρώτιστον τῆς ξενίης μεθοδίοιο | τεῦκτο ἔργον λιτογραφίης ἐν περικλύ|τω Ῥώμη· πρὸς κορυφαίου Πέτρου μεγά|ρω τῶ λυσιμόχθω.

The third of these has been identified as a mis-transcribed set of three hexameters by Canart 1979, p. 346:

Πρώτιστον τόδε τῆς ξενίης Μεθοδίοιο τεῦκτο

ἔργον λιτογραφίης ἐν περικλύτω Ῥώμη

προς κορυφαίου Πέτρου μεγάρῳ τῷ λυσιμόχθῳ

Canart argues that this colophon was transcribed by the scribe of this manuscript from an uncial manuscript of Ps-Dionysius copied by Methodius, future Patriarch of Constantinople, at Rome.

On f 214v is some scribbling with the name Παπᾶς Σαβάς, and on f 214r a note, dated Ιουνίου (for July?) 1715, relating to the capture of Nauplion by the Turks.

Belonged to Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (Appendix no. 211, sale-catalogue 1 May, 1899, lot 143).

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Joseph Ernest Worrall, 1 September 1903.

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_36821].

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, London 1907, pp. 234-236.

C. Van de Vorst and H. Delehaye, Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graecorum Germaniae, Belgii, Angliae (Subsidia Hagiographica 13), Brussels 1913, p. 277.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 66.

P. Canart, 'Le patriarche Methode de Constantinople copiste a Rome', Palaeographica diplomatica e archivistica: studi in onore di Giulio Battelli (Storia e letteratura 139), 2 vols, Rome 1979, I, pp. 343-353.

I. Hutter, 'Patmos 33 in Kontext', Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici 46 (2009) pp. 73-126.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ashburnham, Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, 1797-1878
Methodius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, 788-847
Worrall, Joseph Ernest, fl 1903