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Add MS 36823
- Record Id:
- 032-002054682
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002054682
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x000027
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 36823
- Title:
- Menaion for the months of November and December, imperfect, partly palimpsest
- Scope & Content:
- Menaion for the months of November and December, imperfect and partly palimpsest, containing services for the month of November (ff 1r-139v) and December, ending imperfectly with 2 December (ff 140r-142v). The palimpsest parts are often, but not exclusively, inserted leaves or patches of smaller size than the body of the book, and they include two leaves (ff 17r-18v) from a 9th-century Gospel lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1317; Scrivener evst. 238).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002054682
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002054682
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 142 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_36823 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff ii + 142. f i is an ownership inscription from the Library of the Earl of Ashburnham; f ii is a description of the MS from the same library, both being pasted onto an unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning of the manuscript. One additional unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and two at the end.
Dimensions: 330 x 240 mm.
Ruling: in various sizes.
Binding: Bare oak wooden boards, with a 19th-century leather spine. Traces of previous leather covering on back board and nail holes from clasps or furniture.
Scribe: Ἰωάννης Χορτασμένος (Repertorium 1A, no 191), signing as Ἰγνάτιος Μητροπολίτης Σηλυβρίας. See also Add MS 31919, another Menaion, possibly one volume of a series of Menaia that Ἰγνάτιος had copied.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Selymbria).
Provenance:
Diocese of Selymbria: donated by the copyist John Chortasmenus, according to notes on ff 1v and 2r: Μητροπολίτου Σηλυβρίας, Ίγνατίου καὶ ἀφιερώθη τῷ ναῷ τῆς ἁγιωτάτης μητροπόλεως σηλυβρίας σὺν ἑτέροις βιβλίοις οὐκ ὀλίγοις. εἴτις οὖν κλέψει τοῦτο ἤ ἀλλάξει μεθ ἑτέρου (f 1v); βιβλίον δυμηναῖον νοέμβριος καὶ δεκέμβριος γραφέν ὑπ' ἐμοῦ τοῦ ταπεινοῦ μητροπολίτου Σηλυβρίας Ἰγνατίου καὶ ἀφιερωθὲν τῇ ἁγιωτάτῃ μητροπόλει Σηλυβρίᾳς (f 2r).
Lot number (254) from a previous sale on the front board, perhaps the sale at which it was acquired by Aberdeen.
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (b. 1784, d. 1860), prime minister and scholar.
Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878): Appendix no. 208, sale-catalogue 1 May, 1899, lot 74.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Joseph Ernest Worrall, 1 September 1903.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Selymbria).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_36823].
- Publications:
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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, vol. 1, p. 344.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 407.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, London 1907, pp. 236-237.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 67.
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, p. 298.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)