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Record Id:

032-002058770

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032-002058770

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Add MS 36928

Title:

Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1089), with additional texts

Scope & Content:

Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1089), with additional texts, including Argumentum Psalmorum (a compilation), other patristic works, and calendar-notes.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

307 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1085

End Date:

1095

Date Range:

c 1090

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff viii + 307. The paper flyleaves are from the calendar-tables of a printed Greek liturgical book of the 18th century. Two additional unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end.

Dimensions: 120 x 95 mm.

Ruling: 80 x 65 mm, 18 lines per page.

Binding: Blind-tooled leather binding, on wooden boards (17th century?), with strap for clasp.

Decoration: Eight full-page illuminations, much-rubbed. Headings in gold.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Probably written in or just before 1090: the table of movable feasts (ff 37r-41v) begins with September 1090.

Monastery of St Sabba, near Jerusalem: ownership inscription (f. iv verso).

List of names in a modern hand, f v recto.

Rev. Walter Sneyd, of Keele Hall, owned in 1837: examined on that date by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps 1850); Sneyd's sale, 1903, lot 663.

Purchased from J. & J. Leighton, 9 April 1904.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from J. & J. Leighton, 9 April 1904.

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_36928].

Publications:

T. Phillipps, Catalogus manuscriptorum Magnae Britanniae, Middle Hall 1850, p. 12, no. 8.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, London 1907, pp. 257-259.

A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Nachrichten von der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen philol-hist. Klasse), Berlin 1914, p. 106.

S. Flury, 'Islamische Ornamente in einem griechischen Psalter von ca. 1090', Der Islam: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients 7 (1916) pp. 115-170.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 67.

M. Aubineau, Codices Chrysostomici Graeci, I: Codices Britanniae et Hiberniae, Paris 1968, p. 73, no. 86.

C. Walter, 'Raising on a shield in Byzantine iconography', Revue des études byzantines 33 (1975) pp. 133-176.

A. Cutler, 'A Psalter from Mar Saba and the Evolution of the. Byzantine David Cycle,' Journal of Jewish Art 6 (1979) pp. 39-63.

A. Cutler, 'The aristocratic psalter: the state of research', in Actes du XVe Congrès international d'études byzantines, Athènes - septembre 1976 =Πρακτικα του ΙΕ' διεθνους συνεδριου Βυζαντινων σπουδων, Αθηναι - Σεπτἐμβριος 1976 (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 92) 4 vols, Athens 1979-1981, vol. 1 (1979), pp. 423-449.

I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453, (Byzantina Neerlandica 8), 2 vols, Leiden 1981, p. 36, no. 109.

A. Cutler, The aristocratic psalters in Byzantium (Bibliothèque des cahiers archéologiques 13), Paris 1984, pp. 48-49, no. 30, and pp. 178-180 (figs. 169-178), with additional bibliography.

Exhibitions:

Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

J. & J. Leighton, bookbinders and booksellers, of 40 Brewer Street, Golden Square, 19th century
Monastery of St Sabba, near Jerusalem
Sneyd, Walter, Reverend of Keele Hall Staffordsh, 1809-1888